Tron: Ares suffers from a bit of repetitive storytelling since it basically inverses the idea of digital beings invading the physical world into a corporate scheme to invite them into the biological realm as product to sell to the highest bidder and or the Military Industrial Complex. The key is obtaining the permanence code that will enable digital beings to live without restriction beyond the grid. This magical McGuffin kind of goes against the whole plot of the second film in that it was not needed for that to occur or even mentioned in that storyline and the characters of Flynn’s son, as well as the girl that he takes with him into our world are barely referenced and we have no idea why they’re not in the story at all. Unfortunately, Jeff Bridges is relegated to a little cameo, and it painfully shows how much he has the advantage over Jared Lito in the sense that Mr. Leto doesn’t have the same type of charisma that Mr. Bridges has and instead of it being a dynamic scene just becomes more of an nostalgic scene. Granted sequence is something that I liked, but I also felt that the casting of Leto, actually in this particular case hurts the film because he just seems too blank and too one dimensional and while you could say well he’s a computer program so what do I expect? However, look at Bruce Boxleitner in the first two Tron films and understand that in the original Tron film he was just as noteworthy of program as Ares and Boxleitner has charisma that matched well with Bridges. I’m not putting Mr. Leto down either because I don’t believe it’s his fault. I just think that the casting or his screen direction somehow just doesn’t work. The visual effects are fantastic and the soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails is absolutely excellent for the film. Of the three Tron films that have been made. I would say that this is the lesser of what I guess to now be considered a trilogy.
The Digital Copy serves the visuals and Sound well with Dolby Vision and ATMOS Sound. Featurettes covering the journey toward realizing the film’s vision (11:00), light cycles (6:00), artistry (6:00) and cast interviews (4:00) support the film along with three deleted scenes that can be viewed individually or as one reel through a play all option (2:00).
Tron:Ares is available now at digital retailers like Movies Anywhere now courtesy of Walt Disney Home Entertainment.
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