Tron: Ares is a strange film that doesn't know its audience - and that's not even its worst feature

Tron: Ares is the third film in a franchise that is now 43 years old. Photo: Disney.

No form of media has perhaps evolved more since the turn of the century than video games.

What started as dots on a black screen in the 1950s has now become a $350 billion industry fuelled by life-like graphics, incredible immersion, and new ways to tell complex stories.

The gaming industry has become so popular that it has even become the subject matter of stories in more traditional media like books, TV and movies. One of the first examples of this was 1982’s Tron .

While a bit dated by today’s standards, the original film told the story of a software designer dragged into the computer grid of a security software. He is then forced to play ‘real versions’ of the games he created.

Tron has always