what i liked:

• you DO get a few minutes in the computer.
• you get to see "Flynn's original grid" which apparently is running on an Apple /// (lol) and they reproduced the look and feel of the original film, faulty film stock and all, pretty well. We even get a few bars of Wendy Carlos' music. A common complaint of Legacy was that it didn't hew enough to that; I think this was a nod in that direction.
• you do get a few minutes with Flynn (Jeff Bridges) in that setting. Bizarrely for a computer that has been turned off since 198x that Flynn has aged and seems to know DIllinger's grandson left the company to start his own thing and be a formidable opponent, as well as know a little bit about zoomers / Gen Alpha. Makes no sense to me.
• I guess Trent & Atticus did OK, but I really am not into the soundtrack, sorry.

1/x

what I tolerated:

• Dillinger Systems (now a competitor to ENCOM) have their own grid and are responsible for this entire lemon, including Ares (Jared Leto).
• Dillinger's grid looks almost entirely like ENCOM's, but it's red. Yanno, because it's evil.
• In the mid-credits scene, DIllinger is in his own grid, which he's managed to reboot after ENCOM has shut it down and when he picks up his identity disk, you briefly see Sark's uniform (with the horned helmet) superimposed over him. Yawn.
• You get a bunch of pinball machines and old electronics on the ENCOM executive top floor, and you get to see Flynn's old secret lab from Legacy for about 15 seconds when Jared Leto comes out of the particle cannon there.
• Trent & Atticus get their cameo like Daft Punk did, but they are... F-35 Pilots?! At least Daft Punk were DJs. In a fucking club. Yanno, what they actually do for a living. (And we never got a Wendy Carlos cameo, damn it.)

2/

what i absolutely loathed

• Jared Leto. I guess he's believable as a program with one, emotionless setting. But he's supposed to be gaining empathy/independence/some level of humanity as he encounters Eve Kim (Greta Lee). HIs HUD shows him that Eve is having an "EMPATHIC REACTION" to him and... his face does not change. For all of the actor's other faults, he... can't even act. Unredeemable.
• There is a scene with Leto and Lee, driving, where he's just come from reading all of her personal files/texts/etc and asks her a few rather personal questions. She's completely freaked out. As she fucking should be! But they also have by this point showed her explaining how she thinks "whatever comes out of the computer" would be... i forget the word. Glorious? A miracle? whatever. Personally the nicest thing I can say about this scene is that it's a great depiction of the perils of parasociality. Leto doesn't know her, and her reaction is ridiculous.
• Right after that horrid scene that nearly got me to walk out of the theatre, Leto and Kim meet up with her plucky sidekick Seth (played by Arturo Castro, who will probably always be Rodriquez from Narcos to me), who naturally asks who this guy is. Amongst other weird stammered explanations Lee calls Leto her fucking boyfriend at one point. I have to imagine there was a point at which the script had been written, but Leto hadn't yet been cast, and this line made sense.
• Later on after the final battle is done and Leto has defeated the baddies and saved Lee, there's what might have also been a proto-romantic scene. But you can tell Greta Lee absolutely does NOT want to be in the scene and does her best to never look Leto in the eyes. It also feels like a line or two of dialogue have been dropped, perhaps along with a kiss. Thank fuck for that.

3/

what i was deeply disappointed by:

• No, Gillian Anderson can't save the film. She gets maybe 8 lines and maybe a total of 120s of on-screen time. She's supposed to be giving Dillinger his conscience and emotional centre but she's barely given the chance... and isn't given any meaningful lines. Lying dying in her son's arms (killed by Athena, Jared Leto's #2, played by Jodie Turner-Smith), she manages to eek out "You... Did... This..." and that's it. It's terrible. I love her and she is just a flickering candle in the background of a few scenes.
• Stop making your baddies black women with no agency, damn it, Hollywood/Disney.
• How can you have a TRON movie... without TRON in it? Bruce Boxleitner is right there not retired as far as I know, and not dead.
• Apparently the director of the film said that the first 2 films didn't have heart, but this film did. What the actual fuck, dude. Excuse me while I come over and piss all over your face, since clearly you're into that.
• I got bored in the interminable action sequences that are obvious tee-ups for tie-invideo games.
• The setup for an obvious sequel that none of us want is ridiculous, and is basically the only instant this film recognizes that Legacy existed (aside from a couple of visual nods).
• No mention of the isomorphs.
• The easter eggs were OK i guess. I guess they're par for the course in films like this now.
• I got a free pin! Well that was nice. And I also got to see TRON Legacy in 3D IMAX again. Thatwas nice!