TRON : L'héritage

Tron: Legacy n'a rien d'un drame psychologique ou d'un essai sur les relations père-fils. Fort heureusement d'ailleurs, car si Jeff Bridges reste égal à lui-même, Garret Hedlund est à peu près aussi vibrant qu'une image de synthèse.

Évidemment, le scénario d'Edward Kitsis et Adam Horowitz (auteurs ayant participé à l'écriture de la série télévisée Lost) ne montre aucune volonté de sortir des conventions, récupérant bon nombre d'idées et d'archétypes mis de l'avant par d'autres artistes avant eux, mais avec un flair et une acuité qui s'avèrent des plus surprenants.

You're going to hear a lot of talk about how good the visuals in this movie are, and it's true, they're good.

The moments that work best in the film are the ones relying heaviest on the technical elements, from a lightcycle battle early on that feels thrilling and visceral to a similar fight in the air that has slightly less impact only because it's more of the same.

Suffice to say, TRON: Legacy is a profoundly flawed film as far as character development, and story goes. But as a visual experience, it comes damn close to fully compensating for it's shortcomings on the page.

But for those in the audience, it's best to just sit back, drink in its virtual dazzle and not ask questions.

Three decades later Disney has gone back to the electronic drawing board and returned with Tron: Legacy, a sequel with far less color and cinematic imagination, and many more bells and whistles, including a freakishly special-effected Mr. Bridges going mano a mano in cyberspace with the grizzled real deal.