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movie review - Tron

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is my second review of "Tron", some sixteen years after the last time and I presume thirty years after I first saw it. I tried showing it to my kids for "movie night" and their reaction was sharply negative. I admit that the beginning of the flick is hardly engaging, and that the overall story fails to really hold together as the in-game story loses its grip on the real world. Also, the graphics are now so dated as to have absolutely nothing in common with the kids' experience of gaming or other computer-based activities. Even casual gaming environments like "Roblox" absolutely blow the doors off Tron.

But, it's the story that matters and this story feels made around the special effects, rather than the reverse.

Not recommended.