Tron: Ares Review – 'Fun if forgettable futuristic fluff'

Tron has always been a bit of a gamble. The original 1982 Steven Lisberger-directed sci-fi, about computer programmers entering vast, gleaming software landscapes, was a huge risk, being one of the first films to make extensive use of CGI. Joseph Kosinski’s Tron: Legacy , the belated 2010 sequel, was almost as risky, among other things for its early use of de-ageing technology, and for playing with what Jeff Bridges’ Kevin Flynn described as “bio-digital jazz, man!” This third feature-length effort is a gamble, too: another revival of a series that has never quite earned enough critical or box-office love. To nudge it over that line, Disney has hired Norwegian director Joachim Rønning, a blockbuster-sequel specialist for the studio ( Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales