Virtual reality is yesterday’s news in "Tron: Ares," the third installment in Disney’s fitful, 40-year franchise. You might assume the central topic would be AI, but you’d be wrong. Instead, it’s the supersoldier: a fighting machine named Ares, born of computing power and beamed into our human world. He’s disposable and recreatable — and he also seems to be developing feelings.

"I am your creator," booms tech-biz CEO Dillinger (Evan Peters), rendered as an Oz-like head floating in a world of bits and bytes. Ares, played by Jared Leto, asks wonderingly: "Who am I?"

Everything old is new again in "Tron: Ares," from its combination of technophilia and technophobia to its basic premise as old as the Pygmalion myth. It’s also a repeat of the past "Tron" films , in that it’s aesthetically

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