Tron: Legacy

Tron: Legacy. 2010 Walt Disney Pictures.
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Bruce Boxleitner, Olivia Wilde, Michael Sheen, James Frain, Beau Garrett
Music: Daft Punk
Produced by Sean Bailey, Jeffrey Silver and Steven Lisberger
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Available from Amazon on Disney DVD.

In 1989, ENCOM CEO and wizard software engineer Kevin Flynn (Bridges) disappears. Twenty years later, his son Sam (Hedlund) is ENCOM's controlling shareholder, and he has almost little interest in the firm except for pulling an annual prank on the board of directors. After the most recent stunt, Sam gets a visit from Kevin's old friend and ENCOM executive Alan Bradley (Boxleitner), who reports a mysterious page emitting from Kevin's old, disconnected office deep in his long abandoned arcade. Activating a computer in the dusty office, Sam accidentally projects himself into the Grid, a cold and dangerous virtual world within the computer. Captured immediately, Sam is taken to the game arena, where he faces off with a warrior called Rinzler. After discovering that Sam is a "user" and not a "program", Rinzler takes Sam before Clu, the now corrupted digital copy of Kevin Flynn. Clu attempts to kill Sam in a light cycle duel, but he is rescued by Quorra (Wilde), who takes Sam to a distant hideout off the grid, where he is finally reunited with his father.

Kevin informs Sam that he, Clu and Bradley's security program called Tron, were creating a new "perfect" system, and that Kevin discovered something called sentinent "isomorphic algorithms" (ISOs), which spontaneously evolved in the world, and they had the keys to unlock the mysteries in science, religion, and medicine. Clu rebelled against Kevin and Tron, destroyed the ISOs (Tron sacrificed itself to allow Flynn the opportunity to get away), and took control of the entire Grid, making a long term plan to raise an army big enough so that it could invade and "perfect" the "outside world", i.e. Earth. Quorra, though, is the last surviving ISO, who was rescued by Kevin.

It's up to Sam, Kevin and Quorra to find a way out of the Grid before Clu and its army does, where Sam can delete Clu. Also, is Rinzler simply a reprogrammed version of Tron? Wait and see...

Recommended movie, although I prefered the first film more.