Movies

Peter Suderman | 10.10.2025 10:00 AM

The funniest part of Tron: Ares comes at the beginning. There's a screenplay credit. Apparently, someone actually wrote this movie. There's a separate story credit too, which is even harder to fathom. Sure, things happen. There are characters with names. There are events and images. Occasionally, it looks pretty cool. But a story? That's a stretch. 

The best argument for Tron: Ares is that it's not really a movie, but a feature-length Nine Inch Nails music video built out of Tron-inspired imagery. 

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, the duo who make up the two full-time members of Nine Inch Nails (NIN), have been composing some of the most electric, most groundbreaking scores in Hollywood for well over a decade. But this is the first time they've used the famous industrial rock band's moniker on a movie. 

Often, the duo's dense, digitally moody work has been paired with subversive, excellent filmmaking—Challengers, The Social Network, even Pixar's Soul. (If in 1999, you'd told me........

© Reason.com