Jared Leto takes the lead as Ares in the new Tron movie Disney
The original Tron, released in 1982, has gone on to become a veritable cult classic of the sci-fi genre.
Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for its most recent iteration, Tron: Ares, if critics’ reviews are anything to go by.
Starring Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters and Gillian Anderson, the new sequel has been heavily panned in early reviews, with some going as far as describing it as one of 2025’s worst big-screen offerings.
Here’s a selection of what the critics have had to say about Tron: Ares…
“The worst film of the year and a new low for Disney. The music’s great, but this Jared Leto vehicle is otherwise an ethically dubious, horribly written nadir in franchise slop.”
“The matrix of pointlessness is reloaded in this mind-bendingly dull sci-fi, more a screensaver than an actual film […] Tron: Ares (almost) comes to life just once – when Evan Peters gets a smack in the face from Gillian Anderson playing his mum, in an old-fashioned bit of analogue reality. That’s a bit of firm parenting you might feel like handing out to every producer involved in this film, and it’s sad to see the estimable Greta Lee and Jodie Turner-Smith being made to look so lifeless.”
“So bad it makes you wish AI would hurry up and destroy Hollywood. [Tron: Ares is] a shambolic film populated by some of the most aggressively charmless characters ever seen in a blockbuster.”
“Tron: Ares will make you want to log off. Gillian Anderson should have known better than to appear in this uninspired sequel. [The film’s title character, Ares is] a dead-eyed digital super-soldier played by the bearded charisma vacuum and scene-wrecking super-plank Jared Leto (and you thought he was bad in Morbius).”
“Tron: Ares is not a film. It’s an absolutely brilliant soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails with some visual elements getting in the way. The music is loud, aggressive, adventurous, soaring, gritty and emotive, everything the actual movie is not.”
“Like lead actor Jared Leto’s high-def cheekbones, it looks great, but the movie is saddled with callbacks to the earlier film (and the 1980s at large) that suggest it’s aimed more at Gen X than the Alpha kids who could launch the property into the future.”
Not all of the reviews for Tron: Ares have been negative – but the more forgiving ones are few and far between Disney
“Without giving too much away, there is room for a Jeff Bridges appearance, and also a nostalgia-driven sequence that fans of the original Tron will love. What a pity the script itself flounders, hampered by the fact Hollywood has churned out numerous AI stories of late. Certainly, this lacks the cheekiness of, say, M3GAN. With the exception of an amusing riff about Depeche Mode (better than Mozart, according to Ares), it requires a much-needed humour injection.”
“Tron: Ares [is] a franchise entry that honours its roots while taking significant steps forward. It’s no sci-fi insta-classic, but there are worse things to be than a surprisingly entertaining post-summer popcorn bucket.
Tron: Ares arrives in UK cinemas on Friday 10 October.
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