Standing out as the first John Wick spin-off film is an unenviable challenge on paper—especially given the series’ hyper-stylization and unwavering association with Keanu Reeves, its beloved leading man. But in a single fight scene, Ballerina, a standalone story tucked around the events of John Wick: Chapter 3, makes the assignment look breezy just by breaking a stack of plates for laughs.
Eve (Ana de Armas), the film’s Wick surrogate and likewise a member of the Ruska Roma crime family, makes her way to a hinterland village in the Czech Republic, on the latest leg of her lifelong journey to find the man responsible for executing her father (David Castañeda) in her girlhood.
We witness this particular cruelty in Ballerina’s past tense opening sequence. In the present, Eve has little information to go on for tracking her quarry, but it’s a moot point: a stop at the local rustically charming tavern turns into a firefight when a squad of locals descends on Eve’s position.
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