Tron: Ares (2025) [+]
Nov 19 2025
Tron: Ares is a sequel to Tron and Tron: Legacy (with Tron: Uprising being more of a prequel to Tron: Legacy and no new elements from that made it into Tron: Ares).
Fifteen years after Tron: Legacy, after Sam Flynn and Quorra from that film returned and then disappeared, Flynn's ENCOM and Dillinger Systems are the top two tech companies. CEO Julian Dillinger (Evan Peters) introduces his new invention: a laser-system-slash-3D-printer that can create digital objects in the real world, in this case military hardware and warriors, Ares (Jared Leto) being his ultimate warrior. But Dillinger neglected to mention that his creations only live for about 20 minutes before they destabilize and crumble away.
Meanwhile ENCOM CEO Eve Kim (Greta Lee) has been maniacally searching for Kevin Flynn's Permanence Code and in an Alaskan laboratory she finally finds it. With the code digital creations can live permanently in the real world.
Dillinger desperately needs that code and he is ruthless enough to send out Ares and other digital warriors after Eve. But a complication is that Ares is curious about the real world and wants more than just to be a slave to Dillinger. Once Ares accesses Eve's digital history (all articles written about her and all the social media she and her friends and family have generated about her) he realizes that she is the key to making Ares' wish a reality: to live in the human world. (There is not really any romance between Ares and Eve which is kind of nice and would have been temptingly easy to add.)
This movie has great visuals especially once you get the big gear into the world. Cycles and tanks are nice but a giant Recognizer cruising amidst high rise buildings is pretty spectacular. The stuff in the digital world is also nice and Eve is digitized for a bit but that's like once scene or two. There's also a cool part when Ares is digitized into an old computer and experiences a 1980's graphics world of the original film though once again only a couple of scenes.
The film didn't do well so even though there's some setup for a sequel it might never come to be.
I thought this was an entertaining film and needs to be seen in a movie theater with a big screen and great sound.
Fifteen years after Tron: Legacy, after Sam Flynn and Quorra from that film returned and then disappeared, Flynn's ENCOM and Dillinger Systems are the top two tech companies. CEO Julian Dillinger (Evan Peters) introduces his new invention: a laser-system-slash-3D-printer that can create digital objects in the real world, in this case military hardware and warriors, Ares (Jared Leto) being his ultimate warrior. But Dillinger neglected to mention that his creations only live for about 20 minutes before they destabilize and crumble away.
Meanwhile ENCOM CEO Eve Kim (Greta Lee) has been maniacally searching for Kevin Flynn's Permanence Code and in an Alaskan laboratory she finally finds it. With the code digital creations can live permanently in the real world.
Dillinger desperately needs that code and he is ruthless enough to send out Ares and other digital warriors after Eve. But a complication is that Ares is curious about the real world and wants more than just to be a slave to Dillinger. Once Ares accesses Eve's digital history (all articles written about her and all the social media she and her friends and family have generated about her) he realizes that she is the key to making Ares' wish a reality: to live in the human world. (There is not really any romance between Ares and Eve which is kind of nice and would have been temptingly easy to add.)
This movie has great visuals especially once you get the big gear into the world. Cycles and tanks are nice but a giant Recognizer cruising amidst high rise buildings is pretty spectacular. The stuff in the digital world is also nice and Eve is digitized for a bit but that's like once scene or two. There's also a cool part when Ares is digitized into an old computer and experiences a 1980's graphics world of the original film though once again only a couple of scenes.
The film didn't do well so even though there's some setup for a sequel it might never come to be.
I thought this was an entertaining film and needs to be seen in a movie theater with a big screen and great sound.