Kevin Flynn is a former employee of the software corporation ENCOM, now running a arcade. Flynn has been trying to hack into ENCOM’s mainframe computer to find evidence that ENCOM’s senior executive Ed Dillinger stole four video games he created. But Dillinger’s supercomputer “Master Control Program” foils Flynn’s efforts and dictates and controls most of the computer systems. One night, Flynn’s former girlfriend Lora and her boyfriend, ace computer programmer Alan Bradley helps Flynn break into ENCOM to shut down the MCP with Alan’s security program “TRON”. But MCP uses Lora’s matter transmission program and converts Flynn into data and sends him into the computer. Flynn finds himself in a electronic world ruled by the MCP and his evil chief henchman Sark, where computer programs are the alter-egos of their creators and are forced to compete in gladiatorial games. With help from Tron, a heroic and fearless security program and his lover, Yori, Flynn sets out destroy the MCP and help Tron liberate the system from the MCP’s control, by destroying the MCP is Flynn’s only way of returning to the real world. –IMDb
I needed to revisit this, a decent escapist film with a strong subtext about the American-Soviet religiopolitical dichotomy that functions as NEUROMANCER for kids, after a long, long week. You can make a strong argument that the 80s aesthetic looks better than the post-iPod revamp of LEGACY. Grade: C+.
Turned out to be quite the week for Jeff Bridges. Following Criterion's release of America Lost and Found: The BBS Story, a package that
For 28 years this movie was one of the pinnacle cult classics, and even after the release of the 2010 sequel “TRON: Legacy” many people have yet to still know of this original version. In 1982 it lead… read review
The visuals alternate between dated and silly and cutting edge and imaginative. The dialog and live action is quite hokey. The fact that the people, sorry, “programs” in the virtual world all have… read review