For those who don't know about the first movie, here is a link to the wikipedia synopsis of the movie. Honestly, I haven't seen it but I knew the basics. Honestly, I was interested in seeing it for two main reasons: Kingdom Hearts and kick ass graphics.
And if you are looking for an awesome, epic storyline, try another movie. The actual story isn't truly dull but I wasn't really impressed.
It's not the late 80's [89 I think] and we see Kevin Flynn talking to his son, Sam. We get a summary of previous events and learn about Tron, the Grid, and Clu. And apparently, Kevin has found a miracle within the grid. He promises Sam that they will go to the arcade the next day and that one day, Sam will get to go to the grid. And naturally, Kevin Flynn is never seen again after leaving that night.
We get some more background information: Kevin was awesome, got married and had a kid. Then, his wife died in an accident a few years before and there is nothing more mentioned of that. Some say he was killed and some others say he ran away. Sam is hurt and naturally, this all effects him.
Jump to the future. We have a mystery, incredibly attractive motorcyclist who is sneaking around the ENCOM building. We watch as he takes some stuff, uses a fancy device and that he has made ENCOM's "new" program free to everyone... While putting an amusing video of a seemingly random dog. Our mystery man get caught on the top of the ENCOM building and we find out it's SAM! Who then proceeds to jump! O.o; But wait, he has a parachute! And he's caught.
We follow him back to his bachelor pad where Alan Bradly [friend of Kevin prior to his disappearance and a executive consultant to the ENCOM board] comes for a visit. He has gotten a mysterious page from Kevin Flynn's office at his arcade [yeah, he had one of those]... Except it has been disconnected for quite some time now. So Sam heads over to do some investigating.
As he wanders the arcade, he finds a super, secret passage way to a super, secret office. After pressing some buttons, Sam gets zapped, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids style. He falls into the Grid and is captured. From there, he is put into an arena where he must battle with some programs. Once he is the last combatant standing, he is forced to face the ultimate program fighter. This ultimate fighter, also known as Rinzler, realizes that Sam is a User [he bleeds digital blood] and not a program [they smash into tiny digital pieces AKA derezzing].
So Sam is taken to the ultimate program, which turns out to be Clu [who looks like a creepy young version of
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| Elder Flynn |
We get some back story via the elder Flynn. Clu and Tron were helping Kevin build the perfect world when these things called "isomorphic algorithms" (ISOs) popped out of nowhere! [*cough*evolution*cough*]. These ISOs are what Kevin called his miracles. But of course everyone couldn't be happy. Clu, who is all about perfection [as Kevin programmed him to be], has determined these ISOs are not perfect. We are reminded of Hitler as Clu commits genocide by riding the Grid of all the imperfect ISOs. Oh, and Clu took Tron out. Quorra was found my Flynn and taken in as an apprentice of sorts...
God, I didn't realize how much back story there was until I started writing this. This all took like 5 minutes in the movie...
We also learned that Kevin's identity disc [those glowing circles on everyone's backs] is like... The ultimate key
Sam meets up with some program chick he met earlier who says she can get him to Zuse. We meet this super flamboyant club owner, Castor. Apparently, you need to go through him to get to Zuse... Which makes sense because it turns out Castor = Zuse. Just when Sam thinks he's caught a break, turns out Castor is a little backstabber/derezzer. Clu is summoned and there is a battle where Quorra and Kevin later join the fight. Quorra's arm is derezzed and while the trio tries to escape, one of Castor's peeps get the ultimate identity disc. In an attempt to get something out of it, Castor and the program chick are derezzed in a splosion courtesy of Clu [who walks away with the identity disc].
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| The flamboyant club owner, Castor |
Back to the Flynns and Quorra who are riding some flying thing towards the portal to escape. We also learn that Quorra is not just any program but the last of the ISOs. She was saved by Flynn during the purge. We also have a touching moment between Sam and Quorra [something with a sunrise but it really isn't important].
And suddenly, we're not heading towards the portal anymore but some super, secret ship... Where Clu has an army of reprogrammed programs! Oh noes! Looks like he's gonna take his army into the real world to help him make it perfect.
Our heroes once again run into Rinzler, in which Quorra decides to be an unarmed distraction so Flynn and Sam can make a run for the portal... And Kevin realizes that Rinzler = reprogrammed Tron! Damn you Clu! Ruining all that is good in the digital world! Anyway, the Rinzler/Tron captures Quorra, which is not acceptable.
Sam decides he must rescue Quorra and get the super identity disc back. Which he does and the trio once again try and make their escape. However, Clu has been given some heads up and he, some of his program peeps and Rinzler/Tron go after them on lightjets. Sweet! I mean, the lightjets, not the whole bad guys using lightjets... Of course, the bad side gets down to just Clu and Rinzler/Tron... But all it takes is a look at Kevin and Rinzler/Tron remembers! And tries to take out Clu ["I fight for the users!"] but fails. Rinzler/Tron falls in the awesome digital water and goes from red glowy stuff to white glowy stuff [which means he's Tron again]. Tron's fate is undermined... *cough*sequel?*cough*
Clu, knowing where the good users and ISO are going, beats them there. Kevin tries to talk his creation down but it doesn't work. Clu takes Kevin's identity disc only to find out that during the ride over [damn favors], he switched it wit Quorra's! Clu tries to get into the portal but Kevin makes the ultimate sacrifice and stops him, destroying them both [We learned earlier in the movie, they couldn't really destroy Clu without anything happening to Kevin].
And back to the boring human world. Sam downloads a backup copy of the Grid and calls Bradley into the arcade. He is ready to take ENCOM over and that Bradley will be the chairman of the board [cool beans]. Then Sam leaves and we see he has Quorra with him. And he shows her a sunrise. Cause it was important...
Yeah, I'm not thrilled with the ending. With the wide open ending, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a sequel. As of right now, I think they need to wait and see how this all turns out. I was glad I went during matinee price time because I think I would have been greatly disappointed to have paid full price for that movie. But at $6, it wasn't bad.
Good:
- Graphics [while I didn't see this in 3-D, it probably would have been somewhat worth it to see it],
- actors [they bring out what they can with what they were given],
- Garrett Hedlund [can you say hot?]
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| Drool worthy? I think so... |
Bad:
- Storyline [lackluster and could have been better]
- Overall flow [a little drawn out in some parts but a little choppy in others]
One highlight not from the movie was a preview... For a movie... Called Cowboys & Aliens. It took much control not to laugh my head off when I saw the preview. I thought my sides were going to burst or at least be sore from holding in all my laughter.
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