Tron: Legacy

       I'm not really sure what critics were expecting when they viewed this movie. Tron: Legacy is what it is. You're not going to get ground breaking special effects, and you're not going to get some edge of your seat action movie. So I don't think it deserved a sub 50% on rotten tomatoes I think a more fair assessment would be 62-65% because you shouldn't be expecting greatness and for what it's suppose to be it delivers nicely. What you are going to get is a story of good versus evil and redemption much like you did in the 1982 version. This one however has a unique twist................. dueling Jeff Bridges.

       The main characters in Tron: Legacy are Jeff Bridges who plays two parts one as "the Creator" Kevin Flynn and the other, his not so nice counter part Clu. The story starts off in 1989 where Kevin Flynn is telling his 12 year old son Sam all about the wonders of the Tron universe and how he created a double of himself (Clu) to help build the perfect utopia. well as is often the case with duplicate selves, Clu went rouge and all hell fire and brimstone will reign down from the jealous one because Flynn's attention wasn't always on him.

      The other Main character of our entertaining story is 32 year old Sam Flynn played by Garrett Hedlund who is best known for being the youngest brother in Four Brothers and the younger cousin of Achilles in Troy. Garret delivered a very good performance as Sam, the heir to a billion dollar technology empire who is more comfortable living in a tricked out garage and breaking into his own company then actually running it. My only problem was that he was acting like a 21 year old punk and not a grown man which is what he essentially was. But I guess that's what happens when your dad vanishes because he's been sucked into a video game. Well as time goes on young (32yo) Sam meets his dad and helps save the world .(YAY!!!!)

       I caught my self at one point being a little disappointed in the computer generated special effects I miss the days of multiple shots and actually blowing stuff up but then I had to remind my self that they are in a computer game so it's supposed to look that way. Also there's a very cool part towards the middle of the movie where Kevin Flynn does his best Obi Wan Kenobi Impersonation quickly followed buy a great hippie impersonation.

       I'm not trying to sell it short by any means in fact I thought it was very entertaining considering what it was. Hell I'll go as far as to say it was more entertaining then Avatar. But if you can, take a refresher course by watching the original Tron before viewing this one. Also if you can try and hit up the 3D version just cause that always makes it more fun. Oh and if you don't already have a copy of Tron good luck trying to find it because those geniuses at Disney decided not to re-release the original, you know at Christmas time when a sequel is hitting the theaters. No they decided to wait until early next year when people are broke and the buzz from this one has died before they release it on DVD to a slew of dad's just trying to share with their sons the greatness of our youth.

       Ratings wise I'll give a solid 7 out of 10 stars. I felt it was entertaining enough to hold my attention. It brought back good feelings from my youth. Also as my son remarked after seeing this movie it is fun to watch people and vehicles break into little tiny cubes. And of course it's always nice to see a guy fight himself with the fate of the world on the line.