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I almost saw Tron Legacy at the cinema without any knowledge that it was a sequel to this film and that night, I decided to watch it. I did enjoy it but I did not find it amazing. I mean, a lot of people nowadays wouldn't watch it because the effects aren't like Avatar, District 9 or anything else and some would find it cheesy. Me, on the other hand, didn't find it cheesy. I thought the effects were fantastic for its time and they were really good in comparison to films nowadays. It is like a mixture between Fantastic Voyage, Blade Runner and Star Trek: The Motion Picture so clearly there is a lot of action and adventure, stunning effects and also a lot of suspense too. Disney's involvement of this film made it even more magical than it already was and I am glad that they produced the 2010 sequel too.
Hacker/arcade owner Kevin Flynn is digitally broken down into a data stream by a villainous software pirate known as the Master Control and reconstituted into the internal, 3-D graphical world of computers. It is there, in the ultimate blazingly colourful, geometrically intense landscapes of cyberspace, that Flynn joins forces with Tron to outmanoeuvre the Master Control program that holds them captive in the equivalent of a gigantic, infinitely challenging computer game.
Tron was the first film I experienced with a younger Jeff Bridges so was rather weird seeing him younger. As far as his performance as Kevin Flynn/Clu is concerned, it was brilliant! Then again, when is he not brilliant? I'll be looking forward to seeing him in the sequel. I liked Bruce Boxleitner as well as Alan Bradley/Tron and will be looking forward to seeing him in the sequel too.
Steven Lisberger perhaps had a lot on his shoulders as director because many were expecting stunning effects with intense action, solid acting and a good script but I think it was a wise choice to make him director of the film as well as writer. He did a good job and handled the scenes inside the program and outside the program pretty well. In many ways, it takes an absolute genius to write a screenplay alone based on one's own creation, Lisberger can be added to that list because he did a good job of the script and there wasn't really anything cheesy about the way it was written at all. He managed to keep the pace of it at normal so it didn't feel rushed and it wasn't slow so that's good. Tron was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Costume Design and Best Sound but I think it should have won both. Plus, it should have won Best Visual Effects in 1982 over E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, let alone be nominated for it.
Overall, Tron is a fun action-packed thrill ride that I did enjoy and perhaps would watch again in the future. It is an underrated film but not one of the best science-fiction films I have watched. It was still a fun piece of entertainment that was worth watching and that I would recommend to others only for the fun of it.
