TRON: Ares

I watched TRON: Ares because its on D+ and because it got the unique boost of two of its stars, Greta Lee and Jodie Turner-Smith, having been on The Graham Norton Show the same week as Taylor Swift and therefore appearing in her new video for Opalite with Norton and all the guests because Domhnall Gleeson joked about wanting to be in one.

This is what it took.

(Added fun fact: one of the other guests and thus Opalite guest stars was Cillian Murphy, who cameoed in TRON: Legacy as a Dillinger heir and not in this one where Evan Peters plays a different Dillinger heir as the villain.)

It’s visually and musically interesting but narratively not good.

So, a TRON movie.

This still feels like a backdrop in search of stories. It would work for games if that’s not too meta.

Not helped by Jared Leto as Ares, though it only exists because of him so unavoidable.

(He will next be unrecognisable as Skeletor in Masters Of The Universe, which does feel avoidable.)

It was nice that it did a few things that weren’t revealed in the trailers, and one of those was indulgent but pretty fun.

I would have guessed the unnaturally calm F-35 pilots were a military cooperation directive but they were actually Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross VO cameos.

Some likely product placement but the biggest plug for some reason went to Depeche Mode.