5 Reasons Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Won’t Suck

The Fight Choreography
Did you see The Raid: Redemption? The 2011 Indonesian action flick is the new “cool kid” of martial arts movies – and with good reason. The bone-spurring, cartilage-ripping, throat-ripping violence isn’t just brutal – it’s brueatiful. In 2012, TMNT creator Kevin Eastman confirmed that The Raid will be one of the heavy influences for the combat scenes in the new film. So, while the PG-13 tag ensures we probably won’t see Donatello impale a Foot Soldier on a splintered doorframe, we can guarantee that the action will be highly stylized and kinetic from start to final pizza.