Finally, here's a movie that answers the question: "What would happen if two people fired flames with each other?" In "Ballerina", things get off to an extremely bumpy start, sticking together with almost alarming boredom. And then, at once, the ballerina finds her attitude and begins to consider a pleasant absurd action scene after another. Ultimately: Whenever film relies on action, it's an explosion. At all times it entertained to have the characters deliver a frightening world exhibition, it is an absolute slogan that can put you in a coma. Maybe the whole action will be enough for some viewers, and I will admit that there are some violent scenarios here that made me laugh with GLA and appreciate their inventiveness. But God, all that surrounds those action scenes is real towing, man.

As marketing explains, "Ballerina" is the spin-off of the franchise "Johnon Wick" (the posters go so far as the film gives the film an extremely clumsy title "From the World of Won Wick: Ballerina", though that title never appears on the screen). Each trailer put the monosilabic assassin assassin on Keanu Reeves, as if he were a major player in the narrative. Let's be fair, Johnon Wick ends up playing a bigger role in the film final than I expected, but this is something more than celebrated. However, I get why Reeves is a slap through all the trailers: we love it.

Johnon Wick's films work for many reasons - the action is great, film creation is stylish and exciting, and there is increasingly complex Oreubov to round off. But let's be honest: the biggest draw of those films is to watch Kinu Reeves kill a bunch of people. We don't really care about mythology - we care about watching Kianu Reeves in the middle of that. This is a hypothesis that has already proven the franchise: after all, when the last time someone talked about the spin-off series of worthlessness "Continental"? Did you even remember it existed? Probably not.

While Reeves gets a few moments to shoot with guns in the ballerina, the film is also trying to launch the franchise in a new direction with a new main character, Anna De Armas, Eva Makaro. According to her loan, De Armas, the enticing, charismatic performer, is very capable here: we fully buy it as it hits the constant nonsense of a series of nameless chickens while a bloody road through the film. But the ballerina lacks the opera, almost mythical cripples that made the files so unforgettable. Ironically, when Reeves appear throughout the "ballerina" it serves as a deterrent. The story of Johnon Wick was so clear, so focused on his films that it really makes no sense for him to be here. It seems unlikely that he will give damn about the events that take place in the ballerina. Why not let our new heroine Eve have in the spotlight in her story? Probably because that story is not that interesting.

As "Johnon Vick", "Ballerina" uses revenge as its launch. When Eve was a child, her father was killed by a mysterious man playing Gabriel Byrne. Orphans, Eva take over the ritual killers of UBOV, known as Russian Roma, and raised as part of a ballet school that teaches their students and both dance And Killing people (this organization, led by the game Angelica Huston, was introduced in "Won Vick: Chapter 3 - Parabelum" and "Ballerina" is set between the events of that film and "Johnon Wick: Chapter 4"). Eve grows to be a highly qualified killer/bodyguard and seems to forget everyone to avenge the murder of her father ... until the random encounter is set on fire again.

All this takes place in the first hour of the film and it is such a boring, exposed difficult things that I found myself sinking in my place. Is this Really What do you want to give us, movie? This dragging? I am sorry, but having the characters of Vick as the owner of the continental Ian Mac Jane, Winston and The deceased, big Lance Reddick As Haron, the concierge of the hotel, appears slightly, but reminds us of other, better films. But everything is not lost, and "ballerina" finally starts exciting when Eve deals with a series of more strange (complementary) scenes with action.

In one sequence, Eve struggles with a series of bad guys who use nothing but a series of hand grenades, and I have to admit: I have never seen it in an action movie before, and it's fun to watch (at one point, she clogs the grenade in a poor dude's mouth). Dito One moment when Eve and another character begin to break the dinner plate on each other's heads such as in the middle of three sketches (Stogez is even called in the film). The action is really exciting (though I have to wonder how much of it is recorded Credit Director Len Wismanand how much was created during Reshuffles taken by the franchise director "Johnon Wick" Chad Stahelski), but there is really not enough of it to keep the "ballerina" alive.

There are neat ideas here and there. The image of BIRN, called Chancellor, leads all over city Full of assassinators who are part of the cult, and the idea of ​​a cult in the complicated, labyrinthin world of Johnon Wick is potentially exciting. Unfortunately, the script, deserved to Jay Hatten, has no real interest in researching who they are or what they want. BIRN is a wonderful actor and he is properly awkward here, but he does not give absolutely what to work. He mostly only complains.

As for Eve, she is a little illegal, though De Armas is trying to fix it best. He was a fascinating character because Reeves made him so stoic and mysterious. Of course, he demanded bloody revenge for the murder of a cute dog, but also fought with sadness and decades of violence. We can feel the weight of the world as it descends to the shoulders of Reeves. In contrast, Eve is a kind of empty slate. Johnon Vick managed to feel complex while saying very few words; Eva talks more, but it encounters quite one -dimensional. I fully believed that he was capable of beating people, I just didn't find it so attractive.

"Ballerina" makes a opposing experience. Time and time again, I thought the movie lost me-just for a clever, funny and well-made action sequence to suddenly arrive and take my ass. The end result gave me a bit of icing: I went from not enjoying the movie until the time of my life per second, and then to get back.

In the end, it all started wearing a little thin. I know Lionsgate is a helbent to maintain the Johnon Wick UniverseThey plan to make a brand new movie with Reeves Although "Johnon Vick: Chapter 4" felt like the perfect end of the character's story), but "ballerina" suggests that there is only before, you can stretch this premise to grow first of all.

It does not help that film shooting is often flat. Johnon Wick's films, especially "Johnon Wick: Chapter 4", are visual holidays with breathtaking footage. "Ballerina" is surprising to look at it. Of course, watching the beautiful killer Anna De Armas is very fun, gathering Flamethrove and lit a few clear ones, but the film with such an exciting concept should not be forgotten.

/Movie rating: 5 out of 10

"Ballerina" opens in theaters on June 6, 2025.