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This is a big week on streaming for long-running science fiction film series. Tron: Ares gets 3D printed onto Disney Plus, continuing the franchise about programmers getting sucked into the digital world of the Grid with a story of an AI soldier going rogue. A young Yautja must prove himself worthy of his clan by defeating an unkillable monster in Predator: Badlands, which connects the Predator and Alien movies without requiring knowledge of either series. You can hunt it down on VOD.
Francis Lawrence’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Long Walk offers a less action-packed and more dystopian vision of the future, competing for your attention on Starz. For something more absurd than dark, rent Radu Jude’s bizarre spin on Dracula, a meta work about a filmmaker using AI to create a movie about the iconic vampire.
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New on Disney Plus
Tron: Ares
- Genre: Science fiction action
- Run time: 1h 59m
- Director: Joachim Rønning
- Cast: Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters
Rival tech CEOs Eve Kim (Greta Lee) and Julian Dillinger (Evan Peters) are racing to find a way to make digital constructs permanent in the real world. When Julian sends his AI super soldier Ares (Jared Leto) to steal code from Eve, he winds up losing control of his creations. Since this is a Tron film, expect light cycle racing, a Jeff Bridges cameo, and lots of CGI.
From our review:
As thin as the characters and plot are, Tron: Ares’ action sequences are stunning. The 29-minute time limit for game constructs imported into the physical world forces the story to move at a frantic pace, as AIs race to reach their targets before they disintegrate. It also allows numerous fights to have clever resolutions, with characters working to run out the clock or prevent the digital constructs from respawning.