Tron: Legacy

There's an undeniable appeal at its core - in its sincere approach to ridiculous concepts, in its resistance toward quipping at its own expense.

Tron: Legacy is a fun popcorn flick if you had the opportunity to catch it on the big screen, but with the digital effects downsized on a DVD format what's good about the movie doesn't emit as much of an effect.

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.

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

After a leisurely real-world prologue and a big first-act gladiatorial sequence, the movie comes to a crashing halt — and never really gets going again prior to the stumbling, muddled climax.

... coming ten years after 'The Matrix' redefined the cinematic cyberworld it still seems old fashioned, at times entertainingly so, at other times simply frustratingly limited.

Everything you could dream of from the original is bigger, brighter, and better. Never before have video games, or even science-fiction itself, looked as good or as sharply designed as this.

Almost three decades in the making, TRON: Legacy arrives and forces viewers to wonder why it took so long to render such an unremarkable film.

Tron: Legacy, and it remains, even more than a decade after its release, one of the most audacious big-budget debuts in recent memory.