Tron: Legacy (2010) - Feast your eyes on Garrett Hedlund in dazzling sci-fi sequel

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1 Film Excess nomination:

Best Digital Effects (lost to Alice in Wonderland)

 

One of the exciting, neon-heavy posters for Joseph Kosinsk's Tron: Legacy

 

The son of a media mogul, who vanishes in his childhood, finds as a young man a way into an alternate, digital reality, where is father has been the whole time.

Tron: Legacy is the sequel to Steven Lisberger's TRON (1982), the first computer-animated feature film, a Disney release that flopped at the time but has since become a cult item among some. Lisberger returned to produce the second film, which is written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz (Once Upon a Time (2011-16), creators, both) and directed by debuting Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion (2013)).

The film starts really well. It has an incredible look; super-polished, futuristic, beautifully designed and part-animated. Somewhere around half way into Tron: Legacy, I zoned out of it for a bit, because the story turns very abstract. - There is also something about almost totally animated action scenes that can often (as here) only be exciting and wow us up to a certain point. 

Michael Sheen (Heartlands (2002)) channels David Bowie in his performance, which is a little strange, (take that as a recommendation or a warning.) Garrett Hedlund (Pan (2015)) is good as the protagonist. Despite flaws, Tron: Legacy is a fascinating film.

 

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Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 170 mil. $

Box office: 400 mil. $

= Flop

[Tron: Legacy premiered November 30 (Tokyo) and runs 125 minutes. Development of the film began in 2005. Filming took place from April - July 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and in LA and lasted 67 days. The film was shot partially in 3D and required massive visual effects work, including a computer-generated, 30 years younger version of returning star Jeff Bridges. Its score is by Daft Punk and subsequently sold more than 500k copies in North America.The film opened #1 to a 44 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it fell to #3 in its second week and stayed in the top 5 for a total of 4 weeks, grossing 172 mil. $ (43 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Japan with 25.1 mil. $ (6.3 %) and Russia with 21.3 mil. $ (5.3 %). The film was nominated for the sound editing Oscar, which it lost to Inception. Talk of a sequel has been steady since its release, but it seems unlikely that Disney will pursue it. Tron: Legacy is rotten at 51 % with a 5.9 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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