TRON : IRES : FILM REVIEW

THE GOD OF MEH : FOR a film about rebirth - finding a code that sustains life. Tron : Ares jumps from a one-star film to a two-and-a-half star mediocre film, if you can sit through till the half-way mark.

Ares [ as in the god of war, played by Jared Leto ] is Master Control, the security programme in the Grid, the sleek, neon computer server world of the tech conglomerate, Dillinger Systems, run by egotistical heir Julian [ Evan Peters ] and his sensible, often aghast mother. [ Gillian Anderson ].

Julian wants to give Ares and the indestructible vehicles of his grid-world to the military. His tech gives him the power to materialise programmes in our world.

However, the catch is that Ares and other digital conjurings can only sustain themselves for 29 minutes before their code disintegrates.

The key to their longevity is the ' permanence code ' - two lines of code written and hidden by Kevin Flynn [ Jeff Lee ], the CEO of rival tech company Encom, is desperate to find.

Eve, who lost her sister to cancer, and her compatriots [ her Chief Tech Officer is played by Hasan Minhaj ] want to do for the world, and the permanence code materialises things forever - like conjuring an orange tree out of thin air - though one wonders how that would help medical science accomplish anything for the world's greater good.

The film needed to cook for a few more development cycles, and then - when the same plot was rewritten with a more engaging tilt - Tron : Ares could've been handed to someone who could make the formulaic plot work with actors better suited to their roles.

I mean Joseph Kosinski. [ Oblivion, F1, Top Gun: Maverick ] did it with his directorial debut, Tron : Legacy, and look how that movie shaped up.

Like Eve, all one has to do is find the right code to make that work.

The World Students Society thanks Mohammad Kamran Jawaid.