WARNING! Spoilers Follow for "ballerina".

The villains of "Johnon Wick" are largely incidental. They can be effective challenges for G -Din Vick (Keanu Reeves) but no one goes into these films for The bad guys. We go to see Johnon as he blew them. Does the new spin-off "ballerina" change that?

The primary villain of "Ballerina" is a man called Chancellor (Gabriel Byrne, always welcome in any film). True to his title, the chancellor is running an assassin community based in the Austrian mountains. Eve (Anna de Armas) was a member of the Chancellor's community, but tried to leave with her husband Javier (David Castasheda). The chancellor came to recover Eve and killed Javier, but Eva escaped to raise the Russian Roma mafia.

Our ballerina now wants to take revenge on the man who killed her father. It's a story as old as time - definitely a much more old hat than breaking through the Yorkyor Mob because one of them killed your dog. In the first "Johnon Wick", the villains are simple Russian mobsters. To keep the story, Wickon Vick 2-4 chapters "escalated. The first film introduced the exciting idea of ​​the Continental Hotel, which cares for the assassin with a ban on any bloody" business "on its grounds. The sequels built on that idea to introduce a new mythology for the high mass, the advice that runs the killer world.

The chancellor is doing no Sit on the high table. He and his people are described as a cult, the one with a long history that is not even trying to hide his barbarism behind the system of rules. Now, the cult is part of the same underworld that explored last film "Vick". They have a ceasefire with a Russian Roma (that, In the third act of "Ballerina", Johnon is called in implementation against Eve) and cult members are included in the same system as assassinated with high tables; Note how the Chancellor men get the same reports of assassination contracts on their phones that make the killers with high tables. However, the cult does not undergo the authority of the high table and is allowed to exist because they are too scary to destroy.

There is a joke that the "Johnon Wick" sequels make it look like everyone in New York is an assassin. In "Ballerina", the cult owns a whole city (shot in the true Austrian city of Holstadt); Anyone who lives in the city is The assassin ready to pull a gun at Eve the moment he noticed. The installation of a snow, rural European village is also a new ambience in the Won Wick -style action; Eve does not calm down for just guns, but wears a flame in the village.

/Film Ben Pearson spoke with director "Ballerina" Len Wisman, who described the chancellor's tribe as "almost as if David Koresh The assassin assembly was led. "Wisman in detail where that idea came from:

"Their code is different. It fascinated me. I come from a religious background, and if my family (reading), it wasn't for me. But there are elements of ... Treated more like a religion than is an assassination tribe. And so, not to say I grew up in a cult but has a cult.

Again, the atmosphere of the cult village in "Ballerina" makes a great action for action. But if you expect "Johnon Wick" plus "wicker man" from thisCalm the expectations. The film skills the real details of the doctrine of the cult. We know that they have no components of violence and that once you join, membership is for life. Chancellor's son, Daniel Pine (Norman Reeds), is trying to escape with his daughter Ella (Ava McCarthy). The chancellor orders that his son killed him and his granddaughter returned so he could learn to take his role one day. But that's about everything we learn.

What does the cult believe, specifically and why? What rituals do they practice? When and how did they gather? If you want to describe the villains as a cult, then you need to explain a little about the dogma that binds them together. "Ballerina" doesn't bother. Change the chancellor to another head of crime, and nothing about the film changed. BIRN is far from bad, but even he can do so much with thin paper material.

Johnon Wick's films have often been praised for their world -class building. However, sometimes it feels like that praise comes from the low bar of our expectations. Action Film with A. story? That is no Based on existing source material? One of my professor once described the writing of "Johnon Wick" as when the children are on the playground and continue to make up new rules for playing in flight, and well, yes.

The last attempt to drop the "Johnon Wick" universe - TV series "Continental" - was so drawn that even the director "Johnon Wick" Chad Stahelski thinks it went wrong. "Ballerina" is better, but it depends on the power of its action and the power of the Starvalet of De Armas, not how it builds the Chinese Universe "Johnon Wick".

The Ballerina is currently playing in the theaters.