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            So a few days ago I saw TRON. Pretty awesome, the CG was amazing, but after coming home and thinking back on the movie itself, I realized I wanted to write a review…and since I’d be WAY behind if I wanted to put this up on my YouTube page I decided to put it here on my blog. So without further adieu, let’s begin!

            On my little outline of what I should discuss I put 1) Start w/the basics, so I will. Of course, what does that mean? Well, let’s introduce the cast (Actors and Characters)! Jeff Bridges as well as Bruce Boxleitner reprise their rolls as Kevin Flynn and Alan Bradley (respectively). Bridges also starred as Clu and Tron as well. The character of Quorra was played by Olivia Wade (better known as Thirteen on the show HOUSE, so we’ll call her that from now on). We also had Garrett Hedlund playing the son, Sam Flynn, and Michael Sheen playing Castor (Zuse). As for places, most of the movie took place within the TRON game itself, so it was heavy on the CG elements.

            Speaking of special effects and computer graphics…let’s go on to the good qualities! The CG and SFX in this movie were ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. The light cycles and jets were very well done, blending with the landscape wonderfully well. Also, the suits were really cool, and the discs too. Wow. I also noticed that, since Jeff Bridges isn’t as young as he used to be, they had to find some way to make Clu (non-aging character) believable (since K. Flynn created Clu when he was younger). So what did they do? They created a CGI K. Flynn to replace him! It’s amazing what they can do with CG these days, it looked very realistic.

Of course, there was something off with his face, since they didn’t use motion tracking like they did in Avatar (his face looked too perfect). In the way of characters, Thirteen was on there! Zuse was also pretty awesome as well…very Frank n’ Furter – like…like a cross between Frank n’ Furter and Eddie Izzard. Well played. However, they didn’t give him enough to do and killed him halfway through the movie. Whoops sorry, spoiler alert!!

And with that statement, let’s move on to the bad qualities. Acting and music were lacking. Severely. Especially by Sam Flynn. Seriously, how many bad one-liners can you put into one person’s script?! Quite a few obviously, and the music, at best, was the repetitive kind you would hear in a first-time sci-fi movie. But now that we’ve discussed the acting and the music, let’s discuss the plot, hm? But first:

SPOILER ALERT!!!

            Way too predictable! Sorry, but it was. There were plot holes and twists that I could see from a mile away. so let’s just go through them then!

1.) Kevin Flynn was going to die at the end. He would reintegrate with Clu and kill himself, shutting down the lead bad guy and ending the reign of terror within the game. It just took him a while. However, this confused me. instead of keeping track of Clu and his minions, K. Flynn went into hiding, like Yoda (except way less cool)! At any point, once he realized Clu was destroying everything, hurting people, etcetera, etcetera, he could have gone in and reintegrated. Besides, if he had done it if he was younger, he might have survived reintegration…ah well. Moving on.

2.) Sam Flynn was going to save the day AND get the girl. You saw it coming. Right when Quorra/Thirteen showed up everyone went “Whoop yeah, he’s gonna get her.” Its true! Of course, that’s what always happened. Transformers, any of the Bond movies, and the list goes on. Overly blockheaded (or brave), bad character development, and just plain bad acting really made Sam an understated character.

3.)Quorra/Thirteen was going to be “special”. Saw that coming too! She was going to be some kind of special breed of person, some adopted orphan who learned the ways of uber-break-your-face-with-my-pinky kung foo after her parents were killed by bad guys, something like that. She was an Isomorphic algorithm (ISO), which were special programs that just manifested themselves in the game. However, even though she was one of these, she still managed to get knocked out, beat up, and just sort of pushed aside as S. Flynn bumbled his way through the fight scenes. If she was so cool, why did they give her so little to do?

4.) Rinzler/Tron was going to be a good guy at the end. He was a good guy at the start, and then was reprogrammed to be a program named Rinzler and fight with Clu. Of course, you knew at the end that Tron would resurface and save the heroes from an inevitable crash. However, WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM?! At the end, he and Clu have a midair battle and fall spinning into the ocean…then suddenly Rinzler’s suit lights turn from orange to blue!! I mean really, where’d he go?! Is this supposed to be the beginning of the third movie in the series, Tron: Return of Tron or what?! Ugh. So predictable.

5.) Clu was going to be bad all the way through, die at the end, AND be WAY too dramatic. Too bad. Clu (Codified Likeness Utility) could have been an awesome bad guy, but they made Jeff Bridges overact him. He was just…too bad. He also didn’t have a British accent, so he couldn’t pull off the overacting. Like Dr. No!! he could pull it off because he was a Brit (if I remember correctly). Arg, too overdone!!

6.)They gave Alan Bradley nothing to do. Not much else to say about this, he had NOTHING to do in the movie. Seriously nothing. Kinda sad.

            All in all, the CG was great, but the plot, characters, and music were severely lacking. All in all I’d give it a 2 ½ or a 3 stars out of five. Maybe 2 ½. Yeah, that one. Sorry guys. Too many plot holes.