It’s not necessarily hard to follow, it’s just too dense with jargon never explained, especially when a subplot involving Grid-centric species called Isomorphic Algorithims (ISO), that apparently hold the answers to many Science and Philosophy questions of our world. I think I lost a memory chip taking in all the expositional techno-babble that jams up the system somewhere in the middle of the movie. His goal is to cross over into the real world in an effort to transform it into a perfect place….or something like that. CLU wants Kevin’s identity disc, essentially an all-powerful Master Key to The Grid. Kevin helps aide both Sam and Quorra find a way to the portal, as all three are pursued by CLU and his programmed henchmen in an effort to prevent them form leaving. As an awkward reunion begins, Sam shares his desire to bring his father back to the real world, but they only have eight hours before the portal closes again.

He is immediately taken by Grid sentinels and transported across a neon landscape to partake in gladiator games where you could get derezzed (killed) by either deadly discs or in the labyrinth Light Cycle arena. Sam is able to survive the wrath of an evil program, CLU (a de-aged Bridges) and escapes with the aid of Quorra (a spunky Olivia Wilde), who takes him to his father, now an exiled former deity. Out of curiosity, Sam stumbles upon a workshop of his dad’s there and is unknowingly zapped through a portal, into The Grid, a world developed by his father’s creative imagination. The call originated from Flynn’s, a long-abandoned arcade where his father used to hang out. After Sam’s latest night brings more embarrassment for ENCOM suits, Alan informs him that he was recently paged by a phone number that no longer exists. This raises the concern of Alan Bradley (welcome back, Bruce Boxleitner), a close family friend who’s kept a watchful eye on Sam, now twenty-seven. He continuously gives his father’s company, ENCOM International a hard time, pulling pranks and causing chaos for those who now run the board. Ever since his father, Kevin Flynn ( Jeff Bridges), an innovative software programmer, mysteriously disappeared twenty years ago, his son Sam (a stiff Garrett Hedlund) has become a rebellious recluse.

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