{"id":18396,"date":"2026-02-27T20:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18396"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:04:28","slug":"ballerina-2025-len-wiseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18396","title":{"rendered":"Ballerina (2025, Len Wiseman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>John Wick<\/em> spinoff from the writer of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16245\">Army of the Dead<\/a><\/em> and director of <em>Die Hard 5<\/em>, oh boy, this is even worse than <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13352\">part three<\/a>.  Tried to half-watch this, which worked fine during the opening backstory, then it turns into a gang war that&#8217;s also a dystopian cult thing with not a couple minutes rest between each CG-assisted fight scene.  Lotta fighting with hammers at first, then she escalates to an audacious grenade battle in an armory and a flamethrower finale.  I didn&#8217;t believe a single thing that happened for a second, so the revenge aspect doesn&#8217;t register, but eventually Ana de Armas shoots Gabriel Byrne while he&#8217;s monologuing, and the guy from <em>Blade<\/em> lives, which are good outcomes.  Only great shot was when Ana whacked a would-be assassin with a TV remote, each blow summoning a different classic action scene on the background TV.<\/p>\n<p><em>de Armas vs. Buster Keaton:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/ballerina1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/ballerina2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Wick spinoff from the writer of Army of the Dead and director of Die Hard 5, oh boy, this is even worse than part three. Tried to half-watch this, which worked fine during the opening backstory, then it turns into a gang war that&#8217;s also a dystopian cult thing with not a couple minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,2725,1406,2485,144,181,2887],"class_list":["post-18396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-flamethrower","tag-gabriel-byrne","tag-keanu-reeves","tag-revenge","tag-sequel","tag-spinoff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18446,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396\/revisions\/18446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}