Diagonaldi Very well executed

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

DCfan This movie was never really in my era when it was out but this was pretty good considering the time it was made. There was of good acting from Bruce as Tron and David Warner was also very good as Sark and the voice of the MCP.This movie also did include lots of different puzzles that were good for my brain and the characters in the film to solve.The only problem with the movie is that it is too short and the effects weren't that advanced at the time when it was made considering it was made 17 years before I was born. Which I know can't be helped because of the technology at the time.

vesil_vesalier If you take the idea of TRON, advance it to today's world of computers, and pretend like both it and its sequel never happened… What would today's TRON look like? What would it be like, having a human being digitized into the world of the internet? The reason I ask is merely a curiosity: What battles would TRON face? Would he be like Superman in the internet? Battling hordes of evil corporate programs with the help of other guardian programs? Geez. This is the first time I've ever thought of a reboot as a good idea. It would be an impressive landscape to throw Tron into, wouldn't it? A superhero movie in today's cyberspace.TRON was the first movie I've ever seen in a theater. That by itself pushes it up to a 10 for me. Understandably, I am biased. At the ripe old age of five years old, watching the screen with my eyes and my mouth wide open, I had found Heaven in the battle between light-cycles.But there is more to TRON that meets the eye.A lot of pictures have attempted the idea of artificial intelligence, some even earlier than TRON. COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT comes to mind. WARGAMES comes to mind, though honestly I don't remember which one came first. Newer movies like THE TERMINATOR, and even the much more recent A.I. gave it a shot (though honestly A.I. was a hodgepodge of thrown-together ideas and too many cooks in the kitchen. That review is for a later day).Accepting a film like TRON today is difficult, similar to the way that watching an episode of the original STAR TREK has its challenges. The special effects are dated. The concept is completely silly. Remember a time when MOST movies had silly premises, instead of the ultra-realism of today? It is quite possible (and more than likely) that we take ourselves far too seriously, and today's mainstream films prove it, time and again.Jeff Bridges is the star, playing Kevin Flynn in a movie whose title reflects on a co-star, instead of the main character. TRON is more than a character here, he is the embodiment of a general concept, and truly, the centerpiece of the film. Like his character, Bruce Boxlietner plays TRON, and like TRON, Bruce has (believe me, no offense intended, sir) always been more of a side-character his whole career (unless he's doing television). In that regard, his performance fits perfectly here… Just enough to get the job done, without stealing the show from Jeff.The idea of digitizing matter and sucking it into a computer is a feat that even we, in the 21st century, have not yet cracked. But here, it is produced to us as a given, and like all movies with silly premises, the forcefulness of the delivery is everything here. The operation is taken as seriously as anything else in the film, and that is what forces you to accept it. In this version of the 80s, matter can be digitized and sucked into a computer mainframe.You have to admire the story, and pay attention to the subtle seriousness of it all to really feel the impact. Admittedly, being five years old, I kind of missed it the first time around, but there is some very serious business going on here. Sure, the main plot is simply that Dillinger (played awesomely by Mr. David Warner, sir, one of my all-time favorite actors) stole computer programs from Flynn and found a way to boot him out of the company, riding on false laurels all the way to the top of the chain—but what he's dealing with now is the Master Control Program, a monster of a program that lives in both worlds—computer and real—and KNOWS about them both. By the end of the sequence with Dillinger and him dancing toe-to-toe, not only do we learn that Dillinger is the puppet of the MCP, but we learn its true intentions: World domination. Dillinger, not only spineless but caught in blackmail, is helpless to assist the MCP despite knowing what its intentions are, and goes along with it helplessly.So even though Kevin Flynn is simply trying to right an age-old wrong and get the life back that he rightly deserves, he accidentally assists the computer program TRON in stopping the MCP from taking over the real world… By giving him the chance to erase him from the system.Take that into account, the next time you watch this truly underrated masterpiece of 80s culture, and the fear of Artificial Intelligence, before it ever had the chance to become a real threat.

timebeetlebrannigan679 Let me start by saying... I didn't understand what was going on in the film. A cursory glance at the message boards, as well as talking to various doctors, professors, people at the grocery store, tells me that it is possible to understand this movie... well, more power to you, then. I had a very hard time following the action because all the characters were wearing the same clothes. Also, I was falling asleep in the second hour of the film. Now, with that out of the way... boy is this movie awesome. It's a computer movie.What would life be like if everyone could go into a computer at any time and live out their fantasy? That is the premise of this film so much as I could surmise. This particular man, the hero of the story (played by Jeff Bridges), fantasizes about light-grids, light-cycles and light-suits, so that's what he chooses to see when he goes into the computer. I personally would not fantasize about such an ugly looking place and such stupid things as techno-diskus tag and translucent neon squares, but the idea works nonetheless, as this is a character-driven movie possibly and this is what this character prefers.Things I liked about the movie are it's computer ideas, some of the colors (SOME of the colors), and just the whole general computer vibe of the production. The director definitely had his thinking cap on when directing some of the scenes of this movie.Now... are there faults? No. With that said... I would've liked for the movie to be a great deal shorter, so that the time when I watched it I wouldn't have fallen asleep so earlier into the movie and would have been able to see more about what happened, like maybe someone else gets to have a computer fantasy that was more to my liking, or maybe the computer goes haywire and the characters have to do some kind of techno-engineering. All in all, a great computer movie.

George Roots (GeorgeRoots) Remember the iconic speed bike scene when Jeff Bridges manages to box the enemy in and defeats him? What do you think goes on in his mind when he looks back and laughs?! Onto the review."Tron", probably remains one of Disney's favourite movies for males. It's very self aware, yet its visuals are out of this world. Largely considered the first movie to ever include a CGI world, it is actually minimalist computer imagery and very well back lit animation. Considering the earlier days of computing software and how it has advanced over the years, I feel Tron's visuals are perfect for its time and still has moments to dazzle. Wendy Carlos's music is also wonderfully immersive, ever cascading highs and dizzying lows. Jeff Bridges is as wonderful as ever, and how memorable was Bruce Boxleitner as TRON?"Tron" is a film that is also extremely important to the history of the sci-fi genre, but sadly no one really ever talks about it that much seeing that the movie had spawned video game adaptations and many comic books. Sadly, a lot of younger generations will now deem it bad and be put off, but I love "Tron" as much as I love the camp-ness of "Barbarella" (1968), and "Flash Gordon" (1980).Final verdict: Great "vector" graphics, highly imaginative & Jeff Bridges (Can't get enough of him). 9/10.