Barton Reviews

From the World of John Wick feels like a crazy phrase to say out loud considering the franchise started as a revenge thriller about a man killing those responsible for killing his dog. That's where we are though after four successful John Wick films, with the spin-offs now starting with the release of Ballerina - a character who made a blink and you miss it appearance in the third John Wick film. Eve Macarro (Ana de Armas), a ballerina-assassin, begins to train in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma and sets out to exact revenge for her father's death. Ballerina comes with the usual bone-crunching and bombastic action we are used to seeing in the John Wick franchise, the little details in the action for both comedic and wince-inducing effect admirable. Eve, just like Wick himself, is a resourceful assassin and it just adds to the fun of it all as copious amounts of bad guys are dispatched in such differing fashion. There's a sequence with grenades which is glori...