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Tron: Ares 2025 Movie Review Trailer Poster

 Joachim Rønning's "Tron: Ares" is a film about two feuding tech billionaires who have very different intentions for the same revolutionary technology. Both are capable of rapidly 3D printing any digital design, and both are searching for the "stay code" that will allow their creations to last longer than 29 minutes before crumbling to dust. ENCOM CEO Eve Kim (an overqualified Greta Lee) wants to use her particle laser to create orange trees out of thin air and otherwise replenish the vast environmental resources these modern tools usurp in the name of progress. Dillinger Systems CEO Julian Dillinger (a bratty Evan Peters) wants to use his particle laser to mass-produce Jared Leto. You'll never guess which of these characters is the villain.   A hard-hitting, propulsive, and broadly functional continuation of a franchise that, while fundamental to our visual conception of the computer age, has proven to have the same cultural staying power as a laser-printed...