Tron Legacy (2010)

All Critics (228) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (120) | Rotten (110) | DVD (12)

Disney may be looking for a merchandising bonanza with this long-gestating sequel to the groundbreaking 1982 film, but someone in the corporate offices forgot to add any human interest to its action-heavy script.

January 10, 2011 Full Review | Comments (11)

Bruce Diones

New Yorker

Top Critic

Like the original, Tron: Legacy obsesses over technology and style but forgets important details like character and plot.

January 3, 2011 Full Review | Comments (23)

Rafer Guzman

Newsday

Top Critic

It is genuinely exciting to see where this brave new world of CGI and 3D is leading. But on the whole, this isn't really much of a legacy -- or even as much fun as a round of Space Invaders.

December 17, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

For a far more thought-provoking tale about the virtual realm, try The Social Network.

December 17, 2010 Full Review | Comments (47)

Claudia Puig

USA Today

Top Critic

Despite all the gloom and grandiosity, this can be a fun movie, particularly for those willing to sit back and let it wash over them.

December 17, 2010 Full Review | Comments (3)

Ian Buckwalter

NPR

Top Critic

Tron: Legacy is the kind of sensory-onslaught blockbuster that tends to put me to sleep, the way babies will nap to block out overwhelming stimuli.

December 17, 2010 Full Review | Comments (12)

Dana Stevens

Slate

Top Critic

It's a legacy of "TRON" that its sequel has to be as slow and dense, as humorless and emotionally sterile as its original.

January 16, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

While it wasn't everything I was hoping it was going to be, "Tron: Legacy" ended up being a fascinating visual experience.

September 22, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

If you examine it closely then the entire film falls apart. But if you go along to enjoy the thrills (especially when it's showing in 3D) and cool action sequences, then you should be thoroughly entertained.

December 13, 2011 Full Review

Laurence Boyce

The Baltic Times

Intricate visual world eventually falls prey to the truth of a cliché: Familiarity breeds contempt

August 12, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Robert Denerstein

Movie Habit

The sequel's filmmakers haven't managed to solve the problem that blighted the original - namely once we get our characters on the grid, then what?

June 29, 2011 Full Review

Ed Whitfield

The Ooh Tray

Call it a guilty pleasure, if you must, but TRON: Legacy is the sort of spectacle that makes people go to the movies and it looks spectacular on Blu-ray.

April 25, 2011 Full Review

Simon Abrams

Slant Magazine

The stunts are more spectacular, but what's more important for a popcorn movie is that a son searching for his father inside a computer game adds a little emotional currency that ups the ante a bit from the first film.

April 17, 2011 Full Review

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

Basically a fanboy's dream, honoring what's worth honoring about the original while adding as much as the premise will bear... [Blu-ray]

April 15, 2011 Full Review

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

Worth its while for the next generation special f/x alone, especially when witnessed in 3D.

April 12, 2011 Full Review

Kam Williams

Sly Fox

Worth its while for the next generation special f/x alone, especially when witnessed in 3D.

April 12, 2011 Full Review

Kam Williams

NewsBlaze

The new picture endeavors to find its own footing as an epic of unreality, creating an immense electronic realm of peril to encourage a fresh generation of TRON devotees.

March 27, 2011 Full Review

Brian Orndorf

BrianOrndorf.com

It's a reboot and a sequel that pays respect to its roots while also paving its own path in to the annals of science fiction and action cinema...

March 4, 2011 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

A fantastic big screen sensory experience that unfortunately has a plot built entirely from nonsensical technophilosphy wank

March 1, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Marc Fennell

Triple J

A visually-stunning, fast-paced amusement ride.

February 6, 2011 Full Review

Roger Tennis

Cinemaclips.com

I'm not saying don't bother seeing it, because there's still some fun to be had from the swaggering, fragmented plot, I'm just saying that we deserved much better.

February 1, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Mike Edwards

What Culture

• 1. Kevin Flynn/Clu: Your move, Flynn. Come on!
  – Submitted by Nick S (3 days ago)
• 1. Castor/Zuse: The game has changed, son of Flynn!
  – Submitted by Mike R (4 months ago)
• 1. Kevin Flynn/Clu: Greetings, programs! Together we have achieved a great many things. We have created a vast, complex system. We've maintained it; we've improved it. We've rid it of its imperfection. Not to mention, rid it of the false deity who sought to enslave us! Kevin Flynn! Where are you now? My fellow programs, let there be no doubt that our world is a cage no more. For at this moment, the key to the next frontier is finally in our possession! And unlike our selfish creator, who reserved the privilege of our world only for himself, I will make their world open and available to all of us. Yes, to all of us! And whatever we find there, our system will grow. Our system will blossom! Do this, prove yourself to me, be loyal to me, and I will never betray you! - Maximize efficiency, rid the new world of its imperfection! My vision is clear, fellow programs. Out there is a new world! Out there is our victory! Out there... is our destiny.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (5 months ago)
• 1. Castor/Zuse: Behold! The son of our maker!
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (8 months ago)
• 1. Kevin Flynn: The grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships, motorcycles. With the circuits like freeways. I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then one day, I got in.
  – Submitted by Jean-Philippe G (8 months ago)
• 1. Sam Flynn: Dad.
  2. Kevin Flynn: Sam.
  3. Sam Flynn: Long time.
  4. Kevin Flynn: You have no idea.
  – Submitted by Riley M (8 months ago)