{"id":2092162,"date":"2025-10-15T05:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2092162"},"modified":"2025-10-15T05:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:08:16","slug":"tv-squad-review-tron-ares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tv-squad-review-tron-ares\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Squad Review &#8211; Tron: Ares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tron: Ares arrives fifteen years after Tron: Legacy, which itself released 28 years after the 1982 original. Regardless of one&#8217;s opinions on the original two movies, there&#8217;s no denying that they were both groundbreaking technical achievements that expanded the possibilities of visual storytelling in film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By contrast, for better or for worse, Tron: Ares is a fun sci-fi flick. That&#8217;s not to say it&#8217;s not gorgeous (it is!), but it also doesn&#8217;t move the needle in terms of the possibilities of filmmaking like the first two did. This time, the protagonists are Jared Leto as Ares, a techno-soldier with a soul, and Greta Lee as Eve Kim, the CEO of ENCOM. Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde are conspicuously absent this time around, which might annoy the cult fandom that&#8217;s accumulated around Tron: Legacy over the last 15 years. There are Easter Eggs here and there, but not enough for this to feel more like a soft reboot than a proper sequel. There&#8217;s even an obligatory (but completely superfluous) appearance by Jeff Bridges in the third act. While it&#8217;s always nice to see him, his appearance here is pointless fanservice&#8230; And I&#8217;m generally a lover of pointless fanservice, so make of that what you will.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jared Leto plays a computer program who gains sentience and winds up teaming up with his would-be quarry to fight against the increasingly unhinged corporate espionage of Dillinger (a deliciously wacky Evan Peters) and his buttoned-up mama, played by Gillian Anderson. Jared Leto is surprisingly underserved as a program who wants to be human. He doesn&#8217;t live in a cyber-city like The Grid, but a constrained computer system, with little reason given towards his sudden sentience beyond it being necessary to put the story into motion. Even then, there&#8217;s not much done with his budding sentience, beyond sharing his love of a certain 1980s pop band.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His character works best when paired with his fellow program, Athena (Jodie Turner-Smith), who is firmly dedicated to her status as a program who serves the will of her User. She&#8217;s easily the low-key MVP of the film. Greta Lee does a good job as Eve Kim, though she&#8217;s often held back by her comic relief sidekick, played by Arturo Castro, though, as comic relief sidekicks go, he&#8217;s not bad at all. It&#8217;s just that Eve Kim has room for depth that goes unexplored in favor of racing towards the next eye-popping action sequence&#8230; Not that there&#8217;s anything inherently wrong with that, especially when the action is this exciting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Visually, the film is pretty fantastic, even if it doesn&#8217;t break new ground. The main conceit of the adventure, the ability to bring Tron-esque technology into the real world, allows for wonderful action sequences, like a light cycle chase on the streets of a big city. Beyond that, there&#8217;s also a great sequence that visualizes &#8220;hacking&#8221; with intrusive programs acting like an elite Spec Ops team sneaking into a fortified base. All credit to director Joachim R\u00f8nning and cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth, who treat every action sequence like a show-stopping dance number from a century-old MGM musical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Then, of course, there&#8217;s the Nine Inch Nails of it all. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross offer a different vibe from the whimsical electronica of Daft Punk&#8217;s score for Legacy. Their gritty, industrial aesthetic fits the themes of the film, from corporate espionage to the privatization of the military &#8220;industrial&#8221; complex, pun intended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tron: Ares is well-made and entertaining, but frustratingly unambitious in its storytelling. In an attempt to reel back from the over-extended Tron: Legacy, the result is a serviceable sci-fi action flick with impeccable aesthetics that&#8217;s based on a generic script that doesn&#8217;t offer anything more than lip service to the grander themes of the series. It feels more like a $180 million pulse check than a proper next chapter, but if you want to see some sick-ass light cycle action like you&#8217;ve never seen before, where else are you gonna go?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Final Score: 7\/10<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/movies\/articles\/box-office-report-tron-fumbles-205041589.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Related: Box Office Report: Tron Fumbles, Taylor Swift Leaves Money On The Table;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Related: Box Office Report: Tron Fumbles, Taylor Swift Leaves Money On The Table<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tron: Ares arrives fifteen years after Tron: Legacy, which itself released 28 years after the 1982 original. Regardless of one&#8217;s opinions on the original two movies, there&#8217;s no denying that they were both groundbreaking technical achievements that expanded the possibilities of visual storytelling in film. 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