Tron? More like Troff

This awful movie gets a 2/10 instead of 1/10 because there's a few lines of dialogue that allude to some interesting things, like how we thought alien intelligent life would come from elsewhere but here it is.... spawned from the algorithms of programming and entirely virtual.

So much time is wasted in virtual reality doing boring stuff like fistfights and chases - and almost the entire plot hinges on who is best at doing this. Will the villain steal the disc? Will the hero steal it back? I kept waiting for something slightly more profound, something that plays with the nature of virtual reality, but it never comes.

Even in the real world (about 20% of the film) they get stuff so stupidly wrong. Like when Sam zaps a security camera to blank the image but the security guard fixes it by tapping his TV monitor. That's just a little tech thing that's inconsequential to the larger plot, but it's a omen near the beginning of the film that this will be one super lazy script where they just don't care one iota about any of the writing, about logic or consistency or good dialogue.

It's like they looked at the special effects and thought "this ought to be enough, right?" It's like it was made by people who make porno movies and thought "everybody just fast forwards to the sex scenes and doesn't care about the inter-connecting story, right?"