Ballerina is a pretty average addition to the John Wick film franchise and stars Ana de Armas a dancing assassin named Eve Macarro. Len Wiseman serves as director of this film, which was written by Shay Hatten.
Keanu Reeves makes a pretty impressive appearance as the morose, lethal John Wick. Ian McShane, Gabriel Byrne, the late Lance Reddick, and Anjelica Huston also appear alongside the petite, murderous ballerina.
Eve Maccaro is a child when her father is murdered by rival assassins. She is taken in by a syndicate known as the Ruska Roma. She is trained as both a ballerina and assassin. When she encounters and kills a member of another group of assassins, she embarks on a mission of vengeance that her side doesn’t want. She is besieged from all sides that want to stop her from executing someone known as the Chancellor, played by Gabriel Byrne.
The action sequences were pretty well done. I just had a hard time sympathizing with the main character. I didn’t find Macarro to be all that menacing in between her fight scenes. I barely was impressed with her during the fight scenes.
Reeves’s inclusion was really the only thing that held my interest. I was pleased that he had a little more than just a cameo.
Ana de Armas isn’t a bad actress, but she isn’t that memorable in this role. She made more of an impression in the latest James Bond film a few years ago.
The movie manages to not taint the franchise or anything, but it didn’t add much to it. It’s just one of those obvious franchise money grabs from the studio that seems destined to stretch into cinematic eternity.
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