Tron: Ares (2025)

The first two TRONs have lovely design, Jeff Bridges' charm and are otherwise very boring. Ares brings nothing new to the table design-wise, replaces Bridges with charm vacuum Jared Leto, has even worse writing, plus it's frustratingly disconnected from the previous two films thanks to Disney fucking about for fifteen years until almost no one wanted to come back.
It has a few nice ideas, like going back to the 80s version of the Grid which I missed a little in Legacy, bō fighting with light cycle style jetwalls, and Grid stuff in the real world, but unfortunately these are all only interesting for about a minute each because it doesn't do anything interesting with them.
It also wastes a staggering number of character actors - Gillian Anderson, Cameron Monaghan, Katherine Isabelle, Sarah Desjardins and Hasan Minhaj are all in the movie and yet could be completely removed without making an iota of difference. Some of them don't even get any dialogue and the ones who do only get to say something like "wait what?" or "you shouldn't do that" every twenty minutes. It suggests a very troubled production process.

Rating: a degraded copy of Legacy