The original Tron was groundbreaking in its day for visualizing computing culture in an era before the personal computer revolution, point-and-click operating systems, and cyberspace, and for using rudimentary computer animation to create the computer imagery… or at least most of it. But the real draw, outside of flashy but soulless effects, is the return of Bridges himself as a grizzled guru hermit living in exile outside the core and (thanks to digital scrubbing) an ageless, creepily artificial cyberversion of himself that has turned himself (itself?) into a ruthless dictator eradicating all forms of life in the grid. Garrett Hedlund is the ostensible hero, the bad-boy genius son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges’ character from the first film) who follows his missing father’s trail right into the matrix. That’s an aspect embraced in the sequel about characters living inside a computer world that has transformed cyberlife into a despotic realm where life is a (mostly fatal) videogame and the losers of the digital bread-and-circuses are “derezed.” It too is a videogame of a movie, albeit one built on technology light years beyond the primitive platforms that were state of the art in 1982.

Thirty years after Disney made Tron, the original video game movie and a box-office flop that became a minor cult artifact, audiences were invited to return to the cyberworld in Tron: Legacy (2010).

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