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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Unknown - wrote on 06/14/2016
'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows' sets out to right the wrongs of the previous new live-action incarnation of the cartoon heroes and makes new wrongs in the process. This would've been a better film than the drab 'TMNT' we got two years ago, if it wasn't for a complete incompetence in storytelling. The four turtles have much more screen time than before, but it's not put to good use. They aren't given any development at all. Very little attention is given to the human characters and the villains. When we see the four brothers in action, the film flirts with the idea of fun. However, that's the only thing we ever see them do. The entire plot is a vague mess of very, very short scenes that comprise of rapid exposition followed by an action sequence; rinse and repeat …
