From the world of John Wick: Ballerina : Ana De Armas goes ballistic

From the world of John Wick: BALLERINA: Ana De Armas goes ballistic

In one early scene, a woman shows a coin to the orphaned and young Eve Macarro and tells that its two sides signify ‘To Kill’ and ‘To Save’ – the choice is on us to pick which one is right. Macarro( Ana De Armas) grows up to become a ballerina dancer in the Rusk Roma camp of a cult who also train her as an assassin, while nurturing the fire to avenge his father’s killers.

Twirling on her toes, while blood oozing out of them and getting brutalized in her bloodied training – Macarro evolves contained and hardboiled assassin with scars from the past, who goes ballistic in her quest after she discovers the same tattoo mark on one of her attacker’s arm in an assignment which was embossed on her father’s killer.

The next hours unleash a violent orgy of brutal and brain-blowing action, elevating the standards of the John Wick universe. Director Len Wiseman’s entry to the world of Wick commands authority with the kind of jaw-dropping action sequences and pulse-pounding stunts, stupendously pulled off by Armas. Its one of those rare flicks where you find it hard to even bat your eye-lids and also clench your fists, while squirming in your seats in anxiety. 

The fights get as real and brutal as they can, while Armas, in the center stage of blows and bruises, bulldozing the swarm of her enemies in hand-combats, weaponry and dare-devilry. Roman Lacourbas’s lenses capture the fights and locales with equal fervour and Tyler Bates’s background score suitably catalyzes the adrenaline rush.

In this slim template of revenge-led story, writer Shay Hatten imagines action in the wildest form where the characters mostly skeletal in nature, spew wise philosophical lines around good and evil. Hence, Gabriel Byrme who plays the Chancellor and the main antagonist, doesn’t look like a devil. In the climax, Armas fights one of the deadly goons, jetting water from the hose pipe to combat against the spray of fire from his gun.

Armas spawns a new breed of steely protagonist who goes ballistic in the relentless rage of revenge, with total conviction and spirit that resonate with the male action hunks of the yore. True, her expressions are limited, but do they matter in this world of cataclysmic catastrophes?

 

Don’t miss this action spectacle on the large screen

 

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