Sometimes, it's hard not to feel bad for Jared Leto.
That’s not to compliment his acting in Tron: Ares, the latest entry in a sci-fi franchise that somehow manages to be simultaneously underserved and seriously bloated. It would be almost unfairly charitable to call this movie a rip-off of a hundred better AI-apocalypse films. Or, if we’re being extra generous, Pinocchio.
Because despite Leto playing the role of a malfunctioning computer program who evolves the ability to both experience empathy and, one assumes, buy lots and lots of hair mousse, it’s not his desire to be a real boy that inspires pity. It’s the fact that he so clearly and desperately wants to be considered an important, serious actor. But instead of earning it, he again and again shows up in movies like Suicide Squad, Morbius and, sadly, this.
To be fair, Tron: Ares is not quite as bad as Morbius, the painful joke of a film so bad it earned the half-beli
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