What:
Tron Legacy Prize PackWhen:
In cinemas from December 16
Watch the trailer:
Here
Win:
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Dazzlingly immersive, Tron Legacy needs to be seen in cinemas. 3D fight scenes, disc battles and light cycle races are beautifully filmed against glassy black surfaces; computer programs ‘die' as crystalline data cascades, screaming digital distortion. Daft Punk's score pulsates thrillingly, Vangelis-like.
The spectacle doesn't entirely overcome the plot holes. And if you smirk at the idea of a hacker being zapped onto a virtual ‘grid' inhabited by dorkily named software, you may find it silly. But Tron Legacy offers more than just aesthetics. While it gestures towards file sharing (I was expecting to see more of an uncredited Cillian Murphy), it also alludes intriguingly to the moral responsibility of creators.
Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) has three 'children'. Son Sam (Garrett Hedlund) seeks to free Flynn from the grid where he's been trapped for 20 years. Tyrannical control program Clu (also Bridges, digitally youthened via some plasticky Benjamin Button shit) both spurns and yearns for his programmer. Quorra (Olivia Wilde) is a hybrid program whom Flynn protects and teaches. Hedlund is best appreciated on an eye-candy level; Bridges hilariously goes into cyber-Big Lebowski mode. Flynn actually says stuff like, 'Radical' and 'You're killin' my Zen thing.'
