![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately the film’s plot is threadbare, and mostly consists of going from point A to point B and then point C. The backstory wouldn’t have been so bad, even presented as poorly as it is in the film, if it were in the service of anything going on in the film. It continuously felt like the script was referencing some sort of book tie-in or a TV series I had never heard of, as if all of this backstory was stuff they had to get across to pikers like me, while the real Tron fans were totally in the know about the creation of the ISOs and their destruction and Clu’s takeover of the Grid. Occasionally this is accompanied by a narrated, visual flashback. Instead the film plays like Tron: Backstory, with huge, interminable chunks of time given over to people explaining to hero Sam Flynn what has been going on in ‘The Grid’ for the last twenty years. The film’s story is essentially nonsense, which wouldn’t be so bad if it were well-crafted or well-told nonsense. And people who just simply can’t tell a story. I wish I could have given that advice to Disney before they made Tron: Legacy, a movie that edges right up against being a complete disaster thanks to a sub-moronic script that feels like it was written by people who had never used a computer. A note to Disney: Before spending hundreds of millions of dollars making and marketing a movie, spend a couple of bucks on the script.
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