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Not being a big fan on the original now "cult" film, Tron, I went into Tron Legacy with some trepidation. Would the sequel be as boring as the first film?
Thankfully the answer was no, although the rebooted version still didn't do much for me, it at least managed to hold my attention for its lengthy running time.
The most distracting aspect of the film was not actually its non-sensical and frankly pointless plot; it was the horrendously shoddy CGI of Jeff Bridges' face as Clu/The Younger Kevin Flynn.
It was not the face itself, despite the fact that at certain moments it seemed to float slightly apart from the body it was supposed to be attached to. It was the speech. And how the lips didn't match up to the words spoken at all, rendering the expensive effects sloppy and pulling you as the viewer completely out of the film's diegesis and seriously hampering its believability. I couldn't take it seriously. Well, as seriously as you can take a film about a "grid" being full of miniature people representing programmes. What do all those programmes do anyway?
That aside, performance-wise there was nothing particularly exciting. Jeff Bridges played Jeff Bridges once again, channeling The Dude in parts, while Garrett Hedlund as Sam Flynn was quite unremarkable and mildly irritating, as was Olivia Wilde, but then that's more the characters than the acting.
But special mention must be made for Michael Sheen's bizarre performance as camp enemy programme, Zeus, who hams it up like there's no tomorrow despite the fact that everyone else in the film is playing it straight.
I think this one is for fans only.
