Some wonderful movement scenes cannot save this John Wake

Finally, here is a movie that answers the question, “What will happen if two people photographed flame bombs on each other?” In “Ballerina”, things started in a very rugged start, wandering with almost anxious dullness. After that, suddenly, you find a “ballet dancer” her foot and begin to unleash the scene of the gentle, gentle movement after another. The bottom line: At any time the film tends to work, it is an explosion. At any time it slows down the presence of characters who offer a global, global building exhibition, it is an absolute display offered to you in a coma. Perhaps all the procedures will be sufficient for some viewers, and I will admit that there are many violent scenarios here that made me laugh with the bliss and appreciate their creativity. But my God, everything surrounding these scenes of movement is true clouds, a man.

As marketing explains, “Ballerina” is a cross “John Wick” (stickers go further to give the movie the very high title “from the world of John Wick: Ballerina”, although this title never appears on the screen). Each trailer has put the introduction and center of Keanu REEVES ‘Monosyllabic Assassin, as if he was a major player in the narration. To be fair, John Wake ends in a larger role in the movie’s conclusion than I expected, but this is more than just a glorious veil. However, I understood why Reeves slapped all over the trailers: We love him.

“John Wick” films work for many reasons – the event is great, and the filmmaking is elegant and exciting, and there are increasingly complex traditions to get around. But let’s be honest: the biggest lot of these films is watching Keanu Reeves killing a handful of people. We really don’t care about myths – we care about watching Keanu Reeves in the middle of everything. This is a hypothesis that has already proven its privilege: After all, when it was the last time that anyone spoke about the Reevelslis TV series “The continent”? Do you remember even existence? Maybe not.

While Reeves gets some moments to photograph weapons in the “ballet dancer”, the film is also trying to launch the concession in a new direction with a new major character, Ana De Armas’ Eve Macarro. Thanks to this, de Armas, which is an attractive performer, is able to do so: we buy it completely as it kicks the beloved nonsense from a series of followers of the unknown while she was keeping a bloody path through the movie. But “Ballerina” lacks almost the legendary chaos that made Wick movies unforgettable. Ironically, the presence of Reeves floats on the surface throughout the “ballet dancer” as distraction. John Week’s story was very clear, focusing on his own films so that it is not really logical to be here. It seems unlikely to give a curse to the events that occur in the “ballet dancer”. Why does we not let our new heroine highlight her story? Perhaps because this story is not interesting.

Like “John Wick”, “Ballerina” uses revenge like Launchpad. When Eve was a child, her father was killed by a mysterious man played by Gabriel Bern. An orphan, Eve is taken by the ritual -loving killers known as Rome Rochaka, and it was raised as part of the ballet school, which learned its students both for dance and Kill People (this organization, which was put in place by Anjelica Huston, was presented at “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum” and “Ballerina” between the events of that movie and “John Wick: Chapter 4”). Eve grows up to a killer/a highly skilled personal guard, and everything seems to forget everything about the revenge of her father’s killing … until he launches her random meeting again.

All this reveals in the first hour of the movie, and it is such arduous and tall things that I found myself drowning in my seat. This is it truly What do you want to give us, movie? This is toil? I am sorry, but the presence of fascinating characters like the owner of Ian McChan Al -Qari Winston and The late, Lance Reddik the Great Since Charon, The Concierge at the hotel, Shone does little but reminds us of other best movies. But not everything was lost, and the “ballet dancer” finally begins to excite when Eve is involved in a series of exotic (free) scenes (free).

In one of the sequences, Eve fights a series of bad guys who use something but a series of hand bombs, and I must admit: I have never seen this in a movement movie before, and it is fun watching it (at one point, and it tightens a hand grenade in some poor mouth and then uses a metal door to the shield itself during its explosion). As already a moment when Eve and another personality begins to destroy dinner panels on each other’s heads as if they were in the middle of three comic play (so Stooges get screaming in the movie). The procedure is really exciting (although I should wonder how much it was photographed Thanks to the director Lyn WeizmannAnd how much was created through Drafting by “John Wick”, Chad Stehilski’s franchise director) But in reality there is not enough to keep the “ballet dancer” standing on his feet.

There are elegant ideas here and there. Bern’s character, called the advisor, is fully led town It is likely to be exciting from “John Wick” from “John Wick” full of murderers full of gloves that are part of worship and the idea of ​​worship in the complex world of “John Wake”. Unfortunately, not for the text, which is attributed to Hatten tea, any real interest in exploring those or what they want. Bern is a great actor who is adequately angry here, but he has never given anything to work with him. Often he stands around the complaint.

For Eve, she is a little faded, although de Armas is doing her best to fix this. John Week was a great character because Reeves made him mysterious and mysterious. Certainly, he was looking for bloody revenge due to the killing of a nice dog, but he was also struggling with sadness and contracts of violence. We can feel the weight of the world that presses the shoulders of Reeves. Eve, on the contrary, is a type of empty menu. John Week was able to feel the complexity while saying very few words; Eve speaks more but appears as unilateral. I fully thought she was able to hit people, and I did not find it convincing.

“Ballet” makes a conflicting experience. Repeated and repeatedly, I thought the movie had lost me-only for a smart, funny and good movement to suddenly reach and kick my ass. The end result gave me a little injury: I moved from not enjoying the film until my life in a second second, then I went back to boredom again.

Ultimately, everything began to wear a little thin. I know that Lionsgate is hell to keep the “John Wick” world alive (They are planning to make a full new movie with Reeves Although “John Wick: Chapter 4” felt it was the perfect end of the character’s story), but “Ballerina” indicates that you cannot yet extend this hypothesis before everything begins to grow.

The filmmaking does not help often. “John Wick” movies, especially “John Wick: Chapter 4”, are visual holidays with shots that take my breath away. Ballet dancer is amazing to look at it. It is certain that you will see the beautiful killer Anna de Armas, as it picks up the flame bomber and burns some men to fragile, but a movie includes an exciting concept that should not be capable of women.

/Film classification: 5 out of 10

The “ballet dancer” opens in theaters on June 6, 2025.