Movie review: 'Tron: Ares' has style but suffers storytelling glitch - Wed, 08 Oct 2025 PST

If the cult techno sci-fi films “Tron” (1982) and “Tron: Legacy” (2010) are about humans going into “the grid” of the digital world, then the newest installment in this franchise, “Tron: Ares,” is about the digital world invading our own. Allegorically, this feels right for our particular moment, the film depicting AI super soldiers wreaking a path of destruction through human cities, but despite the ethical questions the film presents, it still can’t shake the franchise's enduring techno-optimism (or inevitability), even as it encourages getting “offline.”