Tron: Legacy (2010) poster
2010 · sci-fi · action · cyberspace

Tron: Legacy

Directed by Joseph Kosinski2h 6m2010
ElsewhereIMDb6.8387kRT51%Metacritic49TMDB6.58k
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Neutral, breathless, measured sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a mysterious program named Quorra, Sam quests to stop evil dictator Clu from crossing into the real world.

Our read · Tron: Legacy (2010) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · cyberspace entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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