Ballerina

Ballerina is a mixed bag, one that takes far too much time to get going. But when it does, this latest foray into the insane world of the High Table has plenty to offer.

The unwieldy title's a clue to an unwieldy structure, but director Len Wiseman provides mayhem enough to keep fans occupied until John Wick 5 arrives.

This movie is more or less two hours of Eve killing people. The plot is full of holes and the only good lines in the script come when John Wick reappears.

The sense of aimlessness is an issue with so many spin-offs... Ballerina ultimately succeeds as a piece of junky fun, however, because it attempts to expand the Wick canon rather than deepen its titular protagonist.

A Wick-edly entertaining addition to one of cinema’s best action franchises.

Possibly the most derivative, uninspired and pointless FAK (female ass-kicker) movie of them all.

It's incredibly violent, yet manages to show us a side, albeit a slightly different one, of the 'Wick' universe, and is full of expertly choreographed fight scenes, which generally employ a type of Looney Tunes-style violence. [Full review in Spanish].

...[Ballerina] is an exercise in disrespecting the audience. The step down from Chad Stahelski to Wiseman, for starters, is precipitous, as is a script...that feels at least four or five drafts away from speakable, much less workable shape.

A "sidequel" that shares many of the same strengths and weaknesses as the franchise that spawned it.

Its purpose is action, and Ballerina (like ballet) exists for the aesthetics of movement, timing, and form, beyond the moral satisfaction usually equated with stories about violence.