Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), a rebellious 27-year-old, is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his father Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), a man once known as the world's leading video-game developer. When Sam investigates a strange signal sent from the old Flynn's Arcade—a signal that could only come from his father—he finds himself pulled into a digital world where Kevin has been trapped for 20 years. With the help of the fearless warrior Quorra (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe—a universe created by Kevin himself that has become far more advanced with never-before imagined vehicles, weapons, landscapes and a ruthless villain who will stop at nothing to prevent their escape.I loved this movie . . . . . . . . for the first 45 minutes. The start up was great. I enjoyed the "filling the gap" of what had happened since the first one up to now. I liked the set up of the angry son looking for the dad. He got in to the digital world and was thrown right in to fighting . . . . . easily the best part of the movie. Visually it was pretty good. Let's be honest here. That's all they were really banking on. The girl comes in to save the guy, they leave the grid and then . . . . . . . total poop from that point. The "young" Jeff Bridges just looked super creepy (kind of like those Polar Express people). The old Jeff Bridges seemed to still be playing the rold of The Big Lebowski. The story, which is essentially just told to you in ridiculously long conversations, got waaaaaaaaaay too thick and was more boring than watching paint dry. The train ride scene felt like it was 20 hours long and really made me want to pull the plug. I found myself for the second part of this movie laughing at the thought of my friend seeing this and whispering "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnndddd" over and over again.
As cool as it did look and as enjoyable as it was at first, I really wouldn't recommend anyone checking this out. Although, if you are okay with buying a ticket and watching up until the girl busts him out of the grid and then leaving. It would be a pretty bad ass movie watching it that way.
