There are some movies you’d never pay to watch in the theater, but you’d place at the top of your watchlist once they hit streaming. Tron: Ares is one of those movies. In the near future, two corporations, ENCOM and Dillinger Systems, race against time to find “the permanence code” that allows digital constructs to permanently exist in our reality. Ares (Jared Leto), a dangerous AI program, is sent by Dillinger to sabotage ENCOM. But it experiences something no one thought possible — sentience. Will Ares continue with his mission? Or will his newfound morality jeopardize everything?
If you take it for what it is rather than what it fails to be, Tron: Ares is actually a pretty fun sci-fi flick. Unlike its predecessors, it doesn’t revolutionize the genre; instead, it plays it relatively safe — maybe a little too safe. While that may disappoint longtime Tron fans, it will please anyone else looking for a fun, futuristic escape. While Leto is miscast as the radicalized computer simulation, the stellar supporting cast, which includes Past Lives‘ Greta Lee and The X-Files icon Gillian Anderson, is interesting enough to compensate.
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