Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Boring, long, and too preachy.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Having risen through the ranks of a large computer corporation known as ENCOM, a sociopath named "Ed Dillinger" (David Warner) has installed a software package known as the Master Computer Program (MCP) into the corporate computer which hacks into various computer programs and data bases all over the world to steal valuable information and thereby increase profits. However, the MCP soon gets too powerful and after taking control of ENCOM decides to appropriate other computer systems in an effort to rule the world. However, a former ENCOM employee named ""Kevin Flynn" (Jeff Bridges) feels he has been cheated by Ed Dillinger and convinces two current ENCOM employees named "Alan Bradley" (Bruce Boxleitner) and "Lora Baines" (Cindy Morgan) to give him access to the main computer terminal to prove his allegations. Unfortunately, the MCP becomes aware of his activity and manages to transport him into the computer system where he has to fight for his life against programs designed to eliminate anything that interferes with the computer's operational status. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film created quite a sensation in the science-fiction community when it first came out due its computerized graphics which were well ahead of the times. Unfortunately, it suffered at most of the science-fiction award ceremonies that year due to the release of "E.T. the Extraterrestrial" and "Star Trek-The Wrath of Khan" which dominated that specific genre. That aside, however, this is still an enjoyable film even though it is certainly quite dated. But in any case, I liked this particular film and have rated it accordingly. Above average.

When I was going to watch TRON, I didn't know what to expect. I looked it up and decided to see it. When I did, I was bored. I don't Think I've ever waited so long for a movie to end. However, let's first discuss the good parts. The villain, Master Control, was neat. He was cool, he was intimidating, he had a menacing voice and he was one of the few effects in the Movie that aged well. When in the real world, the movie was okay. It looked promising and Jeff Bridges was pretty likable. However that completely changed when he entered the virtual world, where 20 percent of his lines were one-liners. And now the bad things: I'm sure the effects were revolutionary for 1982, but they look soooooooooooo dated when watched in the 21st Century. The acting turns bad as well, and we've heard the story so many times, or so we think, but then it gets so complicated it's hard to understand it. You'll probably like this movie if you like computers, but I didn't like it at all. 5/10.

Plot; A young computer programmer finds himself on the other side of the screen, prisoner of the despotic Master Control Program.Tron's trailblazing technical merits are well documented and just as well deserved. So too is the praise for its far-seeing look at a world that did not yet exist, but would soon come to be, as well as its mood enhancing electronic score. But I don't think it gets enough credit for its clever subtext (religious, corporate and Cold War) and for not letting its story--however basic on the margins--get lost and buried under the techno-wonder of it all.

If you take the idea of TRON, advance it to today's world of computers, and pretend like both it and its sequel never happened… What would today's TRON look like? What would it be like, having a human being digitized into the world of the internet? The reason I ask is merely a curiosity: What battles would TRON face? Would he be like Superman in the internet? Battling hordes of evil corporate programs with the help of other guardian programs? Geez. This is the first time I've ever thought of a reboot as a good idea. It would be an impressive landscape to throw Tron into, wouldn't it? A superhero movie in today's cyberspace.TRON was the first movie I've ever seen in a theater. That by itself pushes it up to a 10 for me. Understandably, I am biased. At the ripe old age of five years old, watching the screen with my eyes and my mouth wide open, I had found Heaven in the battle between light-cycles.But there is more to TRON that meets the eye.A lot of pictures have attempted the idea of artificial intelligence, some even earlier than TRON. COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT comes to mind. WARGAMES comes to mind, though honestly I don't remember which one came first. Newer movies like THE TERMINATOR, and even the much more recent A.I. gave it a shot (though honestly A.I. was a hodgepodge of thrown-together ideas and too many cooks in the kitchen. That review is for a later day).Accepting a film like TRON today is difficult, similar to the way that watching an episode of the original STAR TREK has its challenges. The special effects are dated. The concept is completely silly. Remember a time when MOST movies had silly premises, instead of the ultra-realism of today? It is quite possible (and more than likely) that we take ourselves far too seriously, and today's mainstream films prove it, time and again.Jeff Bridges is the star, playing Kevin Flynn in a movie whose title reflects on a co-star, instead of the main character. TRON is more than a character here, he is the embodiment of a general concept, and truly, the centerpiece of the film. Like his character, Bruce Boxlietner plays TRON, and like TRON, Bruce has (believe me, no offense intended, sir) always been more of a side-character his whole career (unless he's doing television). In that regard, his performance fits perfectly here… Just enough to get the job done, without stealing the show from Jeff.The idea of digitizing matter and sucking it into a computer is a feat that even we, in the 21st century, have not yet cracked. But here, it is produced to us as a given, and like all movies with silly premises, the forcefulness of the delivery is everything here. The operation is taken as seriously as anything else in the film, and that is what forces you to accept it. In this version of the 80s, matter can be digitized and sucked into a computer mainframe.You have to admire the story, and pay attention to the subtle seriousness of it all to really feel the impact. Admittedly, being five years old, I kind of missed it the first time around, but there is some very serious business going on here. Sure, the main plot is simply that Dillinger (played awesomely by Mr. David Warner, sir, one of my all-time favorite actors) stole computer programs from Flynn and found a way to boot him out of the company, riding on false laurels all the way to the top of the chain—but what he's dealing with now is the Master Control Program, a monster of a program that lives in both worlds—computer and real—and KNOWS about them both. By the end of the sequence with Dillinger and him dancing toe-to-toe, not only do we learn that Dillinger is the puppet of the MCP, but we learn its true intentions: World domination. Dillinger, not only spineless but caught in blackmail, is helpless to assist the MCP despite knowing what its intentions are, and goes along with it helplessly.So even though Kevin Flynn is simply trying to right an age-old wrong and get the life back that he rightly deserves, he accidentally assists the computer program TRON in stopping the MCP from taking over the real world… By giving him the chance to erase him from the system.Take that into account, the next time you watch this truly underrated masterpiece of 80s culture, and the fear of Artificial Intelligence, before it ever had the chance to become a real threat.