Barefooteagle

Non-pretentious, entertaining, cheap budget flick with surprisingly fine camera work, solid acting and music, convincing dialogues, a good (though sometimes faint) story and a very interesting array of characters that could easily come from a twisted manga comic, each with enormous potential to develop a story of their own. Higher production values than what its scarce budget allowed. Enjoyable. I really wish there were more films exploring the characters beyond the confines of its closed locations. Most of the action takes place in secluded places, like abandoned warehouses and old rusty buildings, which adds to create an obsessive ambience that goes perfectly in line with the story.

Terribly disappointing ending. If the film was going to be true to the book, it only needed a little more of storytelling and character build up to have a great, great movie. Instead, it just leaves you completely dumbfounded as to why everything happened the way it happened. I swear I was waiting for at least an additional scene that would deliver a rewarding ending to a haunting, well filmed, well acted and superbly photographed 2 hour film. It didn't happened. A real waste of talent and time. Don't waste yours and read the book instead.

I am deeply disappointed with this film. Indeed, trying to cope with one of the most entertaining science-fiction films of the 80s did not prove an easy task for Disney, a task in which they failed miserably, proving once again that risk is not one of the core values of its film-making, choosing instead to get close to safe formulae as much as they can, and resulting in a terrible version of what could have been a classic film like its predecessor. Badly predictable (after the first 15 minutes you have enough clues to figure the whole story out), and with some scenes that look as if directly borrowed from some other films (The Matrix, Ghostbusters, etc), this film is just a bad excuse to take the dust off a few memorable items (the bikes, the video game battles, the portal to the real world, Tron itself) and trying (very badly) to build a coherent story. No such thing. Almost perfectly parallel in its story telling to the original Tron, this is just a poor, boring story drowned in millions of dollars of plastic computer animation and terrible acting.