Why is this relevant? I went out and saw Tron: Legacy yesterday.
The movie starts off with Kevin Flynn, CEO of ENCOM, telling a young Sam Flynn about the original Tron. Now, after telling the story, Kevin Flynn, like the loving and caring father who lets his son play games at the arcade with him, goes to "work." As it turns out, this so-called work was within the virtual world. And boom. He's gone.
20 years later, Sam Flynn, age 27 and nearly, if not more, talented as his father when it comes to engineering and tech, gets a pager message sent to his father's friend, who also turns out to be ENCOM's executive and Sam Flynn's supposedly adoptive father after Kevin Flynn disappeared. This message is sent from who we, the viewers, will think is Kevin Flynn. Sam Flynn, given the keys to the arcade that his father owned, visits the arcade, tries to play some Tron and ends up finding his dad's work underground. Yes, it's it. The way to the Grid.
Now, Sam Flynn's in the Grid and, mistaken as a Program, ends up arrested due to not being in possession of an Identity Disk. What happens from there? He's forced to participate in the insane Grid games. Yes, here we have fight scenes. And plenty of them. They're really well done too. Well, Sam Flynn could've done better on his first few fights by, instead of just tripping and falling, actually dodging or catching a Disk and throwing it back at the opponents. Don't know.
Eventually after the intense fight scenes (which are actually the only things worth seeing in this movie, trust me), it turns out the pager message was sent by Clu, the program equivalent of Kevin Flynn. Dun dun duuuuh.
And now, we get more fight scenes. YES. LIGHT CYCLES. Well, the Programs just refer to it as the Challenge of the Grid. Still, cool name. Again, Sam Flynn is forced to play. Eventually, the game is reduced to a 1 on 1 fight between Clu and Sam until it was interrupted by the sudden entrance made by a female character (YES, FINALLY) named Quorra who gets Sam out of the game, away from the digital city and into a mountain where we find an old man with a beard, sitting in a meditative position, thinking peacefully. I am not kidding you about the old man part, by the way.
As it turns out the old man is Kevin Flynn. Aged. 20 years. Or, what, a 1000 Cycles old in the Grid, give or take a few Cycles. I don't know. Turns out one millicycle is the equivalent of 8 hours in the physical world. You do the math; I'm too lazy.
Well, Kevin Flynn explains the story of Clu, Tron, ISOs, and the purging of the ISOs. Well, I'm not fully sure if this can be considered a sequel since there was absolutely no mention of Kevin hacking into computers, meeting up with Tron, kicking some Program extensions, beating the MCP, Sark, etc., etc. And there wasn't much said about Tron either. 9 out of 10 of his lines were, what, "Hurrrrrrgh." The last tenth was "I… fight… for the users!". Throughout much of the movie, he was just some homicidal freak who was after Kevin Flynn and had some sort of speech impediment. I suppose he only took orders from Clu for the time being.
However, there was much explained about Clu and his nature. Clu was, as I have mentioned before, the Program equivalent of Kevin Flynn. However, did I say that he was created to build a perfect system, a perfect world within the Grid? Probably not. Well, I just did. But. Perfection is just impossible to achieve. Especially for computers. Just what is perfection? I dunno.
This is purely hypothetical, but… If I, a perfectionist (which I am not), had a little steel cube, as cuby and… shiny as can be, and I asked you, the reader, "Is this a perfect steel cube?" You'd probably say yes. I'd disagree with you saying it's not perfect and tell you there's little defects here and there.
That's basically what it is. A perfect world is just unachievable. Anyways, onwards. Here, we have isometric algorithms (ISOs for short) who just spontaneously appear just because everything there was just right for living. Now, these ISOs would clear mysteries in a lot of things like religion and science, but what did Clu do? Yes, he committed genocide on the entire ISO group.
And now that that's over, now for the escape from the Grid. Our protagonist, with a little info from Quorra, visits Zuse in his club. As it turns out, this was all a setup to turn Sam in to Clu. However, he got something even more valuable: Kevin Flynn's Identity Disk, the master key. As our heroes make their way to the gate without the needed Identity Disk via storage ship, Clu conveniently appears at Zuse's club, takes the Identity Disk and blows the place up. Lovely ending to Zuse.
As the ship moves its way towards the gate, it is interrupted by a giant warship. That belongs to Clu. After a few more fight scenes, the three hijack a combat aircraft, conveniently made for three, and fly off towards the gate. It is at this time when an intense plane chase commences and the ending just comes up after Tron sacrifices himself to unsuccessfully delay Clu arriving at the gate before our heroes. It is at this point when Kevin Flynn converts himself into an atomic bomb that swallows everything in the Grid right when Sam and Quorra, who turns out to be the last of the ISOs, leave the Grid.
I give this movie a 3/5. Sure, the graphics were great and the fight scenes were intense, but the story itself needed some more work. I mean, where's Sark? Where's the MCP? Where's the hacking in this? Overall, it was an okay movie. I recommend you see it just for the fight scenes. The people explode into cubes! CUBES!
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