Tron: Legacy

The critical consensus

A film that awes and bores in frustratingly equal measure. Visually and musically, it’s a triumph. Dramatically, it needs some re-wiring.

(*) (*) Jonathan Crocker, Total Film, 04/12/2010

It's the best kind of bonkers.

(*) (*) Steve Rose, The Guardian, 05/12/2010

Tron-Legacy is a gaudy, meaningless confection, buoyed up with a few breezy jokes and a thunderous Daft Punk soundtrack. It’s certainly a must-see for fans of the original, but most will leave wishing that such Herculean efforts had gone into upgrading a more worthwhile property.

(*) (*) (*) Eddie Harrison, The List, 10/12/2010

A triumph of art direction, sound design and Gallic phat beats, but could do with a script upgrade and fun.exe patch.

(*) (*) Nick de Semlyen, Empire Online, 13/12/2010

he majority of Legacy's slender pleasures rest in the film's design and architecture.

(*) (*) (*) Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 14/12/2010

There have been a number of technical developments in the intervening years, but none of them does the new film any good.

(*) (*) (*) Leo Robson, Financial Times, 15/12/2010

State-of-the-art drivel.

Christopher Tookey, Daily Mail, 16/12/2010

The special effects may be better, but it still doesn’t make sense.

Paul Greenwood, Evening Times, 16/12/2010

Successful or not, Tron was pushing the envelope, trying for something new, Tron: Legacy is paralysed by its reverence for the old.

(*) (*) (*) Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 16/12/2010

Each scene feels alien to what has gone before, something bolted on for the sake of more noisy battles.

(*) (*) (*) Alison Rowat, The Herald, 16/12/2010

The CGI visuals are too raucous and frantic to make sense of, and the last half-hour is a bore-a-thon of racing jets and filial bonding, rendered as affectless as a video game – which is perhaps where they ought to have left it.

(*) (*) (*) Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 17/12/2010

Far less contemporary than the original 30 years ago.

(*) (*) (*) Sukhdev Sandhu, The Telegraph, 16/12/2010

One can but hope the next instalment is another 28 years away. Or more.

(*) (*) (*) (*) David Edwards, Daily Record, 17/12/2010

In the end, Tron: Legacy seems like huge folly, one more example of a film that places technology above story and thoroughly pays the price.

(*) (*) (*) Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 18/12/2010

The makers of Tron: Legacy haven't little things like logic and restraint to hold them back – and good on them.

Nicholas Barber, The Independent on Sunday, 19/12/2010

Ultimately, like loading up your Spectrum, it just isn’t as fun anymore.

(*) (*) Thom Atkinson, The Skinny, 05/01/2011