This post contains spoilers for "ballerina".

Len Wisman's "ballerina" understands that stylistic action is its most important quality. Whenever Eva (Anna De Armas) beat her unusual villains during her pursuit of revenge (Even using grenades to fight her exit at one point), "Ballerina" blooms, giving us the impression that it really belongs to the world of "Johnon Wick". However, everything else is quite brazen, even when Johnon Vick himself (Keanu Reeves) appeared to help Eve in her mission. Of course, looking at Reeves in action is always a welcome sight, especially when its wires enter moral complex extremes. However, the presence of the character in this time period (which takes place between the third and fourth film "Vick") feels more inconvenient than credible, causing tonal confusion even when the Eve/Vick team retains things enough.

While The presence of Vick in "Ballerina" feels drawnIt is certainly intriguing to see Eve approaching him for advice and seeing him playing a bigger role in her story later. Vic is hard for a man who preaches restraint, but maybe he sees parts of himself in Eve, whom he is looking to leave after he was sent to kill her. But Eve is not the kind of person to give up so easily, so we are treated for an inevitable fight between the two. Vick loses, just to come back and help Eve the best he can, where she covers the enemies left and right before they can blink. If this dynamics of surprise were given more time to develop, we could have a more attractive collision between two assassins at different stages of their individual trajectories.

"Ballerina" is not the first film to feature Reeves and De Armas, as the duo previously worked together in "Exposed" and "Knockout", two thrillers that are tonightly different from each other and everything related to the Johnon Wick Universe. Let's take a look at these films.

First is Eli Roth's "knockout", which should be inspired by the "death game" in 1977, a thriller for exploitation that deals with discosion of the topics without tactics. The interpretation of the story of the Roth is not complex or tinted, in itself, but has a satirical edge that helps shine above the more unwanted aspects of the plot. At Knock Knock, a middle -aged architect named Evan (Reeves) is suddenly surprised by two young women appearing on his threshold during thunderstorms, and he allows him to use his phone in his house. These women, Genesis (Lorenza Ico) and Bell (Armas), flirt with married Evan, and he initially seems to be more interested in helping them get home as soon as possible. As the night progresses, he is taught to the temptation, but this culprit escalates into something deeply disturbing the morning after.

In accordance with Roth's signing brand (which seems to be better suited to a low -budget horror, pulp However), "knockout -tropa" is quickly transmitted to satire trash, but lacks restraint or fineness needed for excellence. The fact that the film was sold as a conventional erotic thriller did not do so because people were completely surprised or unimpressed by the over-the-top satirical bent in the second half. The end is also frustrating vapid, but if you want to see De Armas in her first role in English (along with Reeves it acts in an unstoppable premise), "knockout knocking" may be worth filming.

Next, there was a "exposed", in which the NYPD detective gas (Reeves) stumbles on a parallel case involving a mysterious woman named Isabel (Armas) while examining the death of his partner, Detective Cullen (Danny Hoch). The world of "exposed" is nasty and dreary, until it turns into a surreal landscape at once with the possible involvement of strangers (!!!) and other incomprehensible nonsense. Although there are glossy procedural stories that could be driven under the actual circumstances, the "exposed" is too boring and fragmented for its own good. Both Reeves and De Armas do what they can with what is given a little, but these plays are too much note to revitalize such a dark premise.

"Knockout knock" and "exhibited" are both right now to broadcast the premiere video.