Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III 4K 1993

After a lackluster performance in the second installment, Rafael regains his leading role. However, the third installment provides a more comprehensive exploration of the other characters' personalities. I'm talking about Mike and Don. Thank God Casey is back in the picture. Even though he has to stay away from the green foursome, it's still a great gift for fans.

The fight scenes have improved significantly. Now the turtles are much more agile, which is a prerequisite for martial arts films.

Shredder has been replaced by a new enemy, which has somewhat disappointed me, as I was used to seeing the ‘man in the iron mask’ in every episode of the cartoon.

Overall, the film turned out very well. Perhaps this is because it has become more serious and mature. The seriousness is particularly evident in the rhetorical questions that Raph and Mike ask themselves.

Perhaps this was the last film of our time in which puppet costumes were used to achieve the desired effect. Perhaps, starting from these years, cinema has increasingly turned to computer graphics. Personally, this fills me with sadness. Since it is unlikely that we will see anything like this in the future. The producer's intuition is increasingly striving for realism, but achieves it, I would say, in a “dead” way.

After all, no computer can convey emotions the way an actor can. And no graphics can replace costumes and puppets. Because they are more alive...