From this point the movie just becomes about the three heroes – Flynn is also living with the last ISO who is also a hot babe named Quarra – getting out of the program so they can shut CLU off from the outside. All the while, CLU is trying to kill them and get Flynn’s disc. Everyone in THE GRID has a disc for another unexplained reason (and why do they fight with them then if they’re the most important?), and Flynn’s is the most important because he is the creator and if CLU gets his hands on it then um…nope, that is never explained either. However, despite this even when they accidentally lose the disc our heroes don’t try to get it back, instead they just continue on their journey and through luck more than judgement manage to grab it again. Why does its importance/relevance decrease/increase during the movie? Who knows?

This is a remarkably boring journey and there aren’t even any really great action sequences, just some dumb scene in a digital bar where Daft Punk are DJ’ing and the weirdo English owner who looks like David Bowie betrays them in return for ‘control of the city’. What fvcking city??? There is no city in the Grid from what I could tell and all the programs seem to do is go to the arena to watch other programs throw their discs at each other and race bikes, and maybe sometimes hang out at his bar too or go to speeches by CLU. What the fvck is the city? And why would this guy want to control it anyway, he already runs the best bar on THE GRID? And why the fvck is he English?

On top of this most of the characters’ interactions and decision making are completely nonsensical. For example, when the evil version of TRON from the original (apparently CLU fucked him up and turned him evil or something, again it isn’t really clear) is searching for our heroes in some kind of digital trainyard thing, when he is fvcking miles away and nowhere near finding them, Quarra (the last ever Iso, so you know, she has to survive so she can revolutionise religion and medicine in the outside world) decides to run over and distract him and ends up getting kidnapped, obv. He was fvcking miles away you idiot! Why do that? Why?

Now OK, I bet most people don’t go to see TRON expecting it to be remarkably deep and well plotted and thought out, and like the action and 3D effects are the main points, sure. And I would even be able to perhaps forgive the screenplay if the whole technology thing was badass and super cool. But no, even that isn’t that impressive. Sure, they created an impressive new digital world but they don’t really use the 3D that much (i noticed it more in the 3D adverts before the movie) and it’s pretty much just really dark with some neon and some dots every now and again, and all this really succeeds in doing is making you feel really dull and either a) fall asleep or b) start asking why? every time somebody in the movie makes a statement. Admittedly some of the see-through bits are pretty cool to begin with, particularly in the race, but then they just become another part of the scenery. Also, WHY are some bits see through and other parts not?!!? Why Tron, why?

Particularly disappointing is the younger reconstruction of Jeff Bridge’s face on CLU, which probably cost about $100 million of the budget or something retarded like that: it just looks like he’s a cartoon character, especially when he lives in a digital world and is acting alongside real people. Again, I kind of have to ask what the whole point of it even being involved in the movie is, I mean why would Flynn create a program to look like himself in the first place? Isn’t that a little weird/narcissistic? However, this computerised face that looks like something off Goldeneye 64 still manages to convey more emotion than Garrett Hedlund’s. Again though he isn’t exactly helped by a script that forces him to utter lines like ‘The sun? I’ve never had to describe it to anyone before. It’s……warm’.