The cast is dominated by Bridges, playing a dual role, as the cyber-equivalent of Dr. The plot concerns the efforts of Kevin, having disappeared into cyberspace decades ago, to be reunited with his family. The plot and the cast, by contrast, are far less interesting. In “Tron Legacy,” one can imagine the hippest, coolest, sapphire-est night club one has even seen-and then multiply it by a thousand. The indoor furnishings, even the foods and drinks, all have a glowing look to them, as if they were made of radium in this inner Internet world, nobody needs to worry about strange chemicals or cancer. And the outfits, all shiny black with silver and gold piping, seem destined to influence fashion runways for years to come.
Vast flat-lands of shining black are inlaid with neon-ish circuitry the “cyberscapes” seem like a photo-negative Western movie. Yet while the script never rises above the ordinary-and is barely comprehensible to a filmgoer interested in plot-logic or continuity-the film achieves a stunning visual poetry. But then the manufactured twin goes rogue, and the real Kevin becomes an exile in his own kingdom. Together, the two Kevins created a vast world of computer programs, from cobalt-gleaming cities to armies of slave-warriors to sexy female servants. Then I got in.” And so indeed, Kevin got into the Internet, big time he was soon joined, on the inside, by a twin of his own creation. As Kevin says of that long-ago time time, “I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see.
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But at least the new movie strives to capture the sense of wonder that an Internet visionary would have felt three decades ago Jeff Bridges, who starred in the first “Tron,” reprises his role as the character Kevin Flynn, a computer programmer who went through the cyber-looking glass in the first film-and never came out. Unfortunately, today, in the 10s, “Tron Legacy” never achieves any of the techno-verbal poetry of Gibson’s prose.
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