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Let’s be clear  now. TRON: ARES isn’t here to enlighten you. It’s here to fry your retinas in neon and remind you why movie theaters still matter.

I watched it at SM IMAX, and I can’t imagine seeing it any other way. This film isn’t built for your laptop. It’s built to swallow you whole, the kind of spectacle that makes you forget what real daylight looks like.

Jared Leto stars as Ares, a sentient program sent into the real world to fix the usual human-tech disaster. Greta Lee and Gillian Anderson bring solid grounding, while Jeff Bridges returns like a digital ghost who never really left. But the real performance here is the world itself… sleek, electric, and pulsating with light.

Visually, it’s a knockout. Imagine a rave curated by NASA and scored by Nine Inch Nails. Gone are Daft Punk’s gleaming beats from Legacy, this is moodier, sharper, and more industrial. Every sequence hums like a circuit about to blow.

You’ll recognize the story tropes too: AI rebellion, corporate greed, humans playing god. It’s not deep, but it moves fast and looks spectacular while doing it.

The lightcycle chases still slap. The visual effects feel like an art installation that accidentally became a blockbuster. By the time the credits roll, you’ll realize you’ve been holding your breath for the last ten minutes.

No, TRON: ARES won’t reinvent cinema. But it proves something simpler, movies like this are meant for massive screens and booming sound.