When they made Tron: Legacy, Walt Disney Pictures took a gamble on a filmmaker with no prior experience directing a commercial film. That filmmaker was Joseph Kosinski, who later collaborated with Tom Cruise in Oblivion and Top Gun: Maverick. He also directed Only The Brave, which also starred Miles Teller and Jennifer Connelly.
Watching the Tron: Ares trailer recently made me want to watch Tron: Legacy again. Tron: Legacy was one of those films I didn't know what to think of after seeing it for the first time at the theater 15 years ago.
I got the Disney Blu-ray set with the original Tron and Tron: Legacy in 3D, and it took some viewings before I fully understood the latter. I didn't understand Tron for a long time, too, primarily because I didn't understand the computer references. I hardly used a computer back in the 1980s.
But in Tron: Legacy, a lot is going on in the story, like Clu and his coup, the "isomorphic algorithms" or ISOs, and the whole scheme to pull Kevin Flynn's son Sam into (in the voice of Jeff Bridges) "The Grid".
In spite of the confusing narrative, there's no question Tron: Legacy has some amazing visuals from the production design, costumes, and action sequences, but my favorite highlight from the movie is the score by Daft Punk. Some film scores had started to sound similar and lacked originality, so Daft Punk's electronic music soundtrack was refreshing to hear in a movie in a long time.
Tron: Legacy is a worthy legacy sequel to an amazingly clever and groundbreaking film (see what I did there), and while Joseph Kosinski does not appear to be involved in the next movie, I'm looking forward to Tron: Ares with Jared Leto and, hopefully, beyond.
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