# Tron: Ares - Angry Movie Review Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dHQMxNKyd0 Recap page: https://rapidrecap.app/video/8dHQMxNKyd0 Generated: 2025-10-11T00:31:46.663+00:00 --- ## Quick Overview The movie Tron: Ares is ultimately considered a poorly written, terribly paced visual and audio treat that relies entirely on its spectacle, with one reviewer rating it a 7/10 surprisingly enjoying it more than *Tron: Legacy* while others gave it a 4/10 or 5/10, concluding it is surface-level "cotton candy with no substance." **Key Points:** - The film's visuals and the Nine Inch Nails soundtrack received high praise, with one viewer noting the HDR sound at Alamo Drafthouse made the place rumble and felt immersive. - Reviewers heavily criticized the story as poorly written, terribly paced, and surface deep, stating, "Everything that separates this movie from Win Amp and a screen saver is bad." - Jared Leto's character, Aries, was found uninteresting and creepy, especially given the real-world controversy surrounding the actor, making it hard for one reviewer to separate the two. - The plot heavily features a love story between Aries and the character Eve, which reviewers disliked, stating, "I didn't really care about Aries. I didn't really care about Eva, their journey together." - The concept of the 'permanence code,' allowing 3D printing of objects from the Grid into the real world, is a major plot point, but objects only last 29 minutes. - One reviewer surprisingly rated the film a 7/10, stating they enjoyed it more than *Tron: Legacy* because *Legacy* left no impression, but acknowledged the characters are paper thin. - The ending reveals Sam Flynn and the ISO character are living together, and Jared Leto's character is now human with one life, intending to search for others like him, writing a postcard from Mexico. **Context:** The video provides an angry movie review of *Tron: Ares*, the newest installment in the Disney *Tron* franchise, directed by Hakee Roning and starring Jared Leto as the main villain, Aries. The discussion takes place among several hosts who compare it to the previous films, *Tron* (1982) and *Tron: Legacy* (2010), focusing heavily on the narrative execution versus the technical presentation, especially after experiencing the film in an upgraded HDR theater. ## Detailed Analysis The consensus on *Tron: Ares* is that it functions best as a visual and audio spectacle but fails fundamentally as a narrative experience. The film features fantastic production design, incredible sound from Nine Inch Nails, and impressive CGI, particularly the sequences of Grid elements interacting with the real world, which one reviewer felt made it a better "feast" than *Tron: Legacy*. However, the story is deemed poorly written and paced, leading to boredom; one reviewer stated, "I was bored out of my [expletive] mind for a huge portion of this movie." The central conflict involves two corporations, one led by Eve (the good side) and one led by Dillinger (the bad side, where Aries originates). Aries, Jared Leto's character, develops a strange attachment to Eve by spying on her data streams, a development one reviewer found unbelievable given the lack of chemistry. Plot logic issues abound, such as the military nonchalantly ignoring the massive security threat posed by the 3D printing technology (the permanence code) and the confusing sequence where the main villain nukes his own soldiers, including Aries, only for Aries to survive by wirelessly transmitting his data. In the climax, Aries becomes human, escapes with Eve, defeats the antagonist Athena, and they manage to use the original 80s server via Jeff Bridges' cameo as Flynn to fully digitize Aries into the real world with one life. The film ends with Eve's corporation effectively saving the world with the technology, while Aries is seen writing a postcard from Mexico, implying a search for others like him, setting up a potential sequel that the reviewers doubt will happen due to the film's likely financial underperformance against its $180 million budget. ### Visuals and Audio Experience - The film is a visual feast with fantastic designs, best experienced in premium formats like HDR Barco or IMAX - The speakers were loud as heck, the place was rumbling, and the immersion was high. ### Narrative and Pacing Issues - The story is described as standard, boring, and surface-level, borrowing from better sci-fi like *Blade Runner* - Compounding logic issues cause the film to run out of steam in the second half. ### Characterization and Conflict - Jared Leto's Aries is an uninteresting character who develops an unbelievable love story with Eve by stalking her - The corporate conflict is overly simplistic, pitting a "super childish cartoon villain corporation" against a "super benevolent" one. ### Key Plot Mechanics - The permanence code allows 3D printing from the Grid into reality but is limited to 29 minutes per print - Aries' transition to humanity and subsequent survival rely on complex, often illogical digital transfers and remote shutdowns. ### Comparisons to Previous Films - One reviewer preferred *Ares* over *Tron: Legacy*, which left no impression, but respected the original *Tron*'s story - Jeff Bridges' cameo as Flynn in the 80s Grid, drinking White Russians, was highlighted as a precious moment. ### Final Verdicts - Ratings ranged from 4/10 to 7/10, with the consensus being that the film is "cotton candy with no substance" - If you turn your brain off for visuals and audio, it is functional, but it fails to scratch any deep sci-fi itches.