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The Third Dragon deserves credit as an attempt to make a (Czecho)Slovak variation on the contemporary (predominantly) American trend of fantasy adventure movies for kids with elements of sci-fi and horror along the lines of The Goonies. Unfortunately, however, the film does not hold together at all and is rather a rickety collection of random sequences, with one overshadowing the next instead of being interconnected into a coherent narrative. In their individual details, such as the bizarrely unsettling sequences from an alien planet, which lack context from the beginning, they are impressive nonetheless. (2018.05.14)