For a film about rebirth, Tron: Ares is lifeless — a film as uninviting as watching an uninterested programmer code lines on a black screen which, in broader context, is also what the film is about: finding a code that sustains life.
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 the egotistical heir Julian (Evan Peters) and his sensible, often-aghast mother (Gillian Anderson).
Julian wants to give Ares and the
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