Director – Joachim Rønning – 2025 – US – Cert. 12a – 119m
A CEO uses robots and vehicles from the digital world, which disintegrate after 29 minutes, to hunt down his corporate rival – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 10th
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Third movie in Disney’s Tron franchise doesn’t presuppose much knowledge of the original film (Steven Lisberger, 1982) beyond Jeff Bridges vanishing into the world of computer games, and coloured motorbikes leaving instantly recognisable colour trails behind them in the computer graphics-styled grid world. In its day, when computer graphics effects were few and far between in the cinema, it’s visuals were memorable. Which instantly states the problem for any contemporary Tron movie: it has to stand out from the crowd of CG augmented movies released in contemporary Hollywood cinema.
The plot here is pretty flimsy (I don’t say that as an adverse criticism: the movie is what is is, a serviceable, effects-laden Hollywood blockbuster) and is as follows. Two big corporations are vying for market dominance in the area of realising computer programmes from the CG world into our own. Dillinger Systems, run by the youthful and ruthless Julian Dillinger (Evan Peters), shows shareholders at a flashy presentation how he can bring the ultimate, obedient, robot warrior Ares (Jared Leto) into our world to provide buyers with the most effective soldier imaginable.… Read the rest
