John Wick is now a woman – Diepresse.com

Fight like a girl! Eve (Ana de Armas) cannot be said twice. If this is larger and more muscular, woman, she wants to assert herself, not only play out her superior maneuver and speed, but also drops all inhibitions in close combat. Trips into the soft tissues, ice pimples with full force in the face, and when one is lying on the floor, woman strikes even more. Finally, it must be prevented that he is getting up again.

In other words, Fair Play is for losers. You have to be able to get involved in such announcements if you want to enjoy the first cinema spin-off of the « John Wick » action film series, which has now reached part 4. Which is easy to do that you cannot confuse the world of the film with real life. The Eastern Europe, in which « Ballerina » plays-partly shot in the Salzkammergut-cannot be found on any map and looks like a cross between tourism prospectus and heavy metal albumcover.

Lovely village scenes, into the aggressive neon colors, time -honored wooden chests that accommodate the massive high -tech weapons. Socially structurally, this world has got stuck somewhere between the Middle Ages and cyberpunk, it is dominated by secret associations that mutually go to the throat, at best civilians are playing material.

The « John Wick » adventure became baroque, epic, survival size with every new film. « Ballerina », on the other hand, reflects on the B-Movie roots of the series. There is also a pop mythological superstructure here, which consists primarily of the complex rites and regulations of the secret associations mentioned. The « Ruska Roma » – a contract killer syndicate that Eve takes under his wing and trains as a killing machine – burns a cross -like identifier on the shoulder, for example.

In essence, however, Eve tells a very simple story story: At the start of the film, EVE has to see how her father is brought to the track by a Horde. Almost all of the rest of the term brings them to bring the murderers and their clients to the route.

Big bracker broken cinema

If Eve is trained as a ballerina beforehand, then on the one hand it is already a preview of the upcoming, stick -thick attractions: the violence that it in dance education – especially to the tips of your toe – shapes the same for a perfect weapon, which can be positioned in the following against an enemy outside world. On the other hand, the ballet scenes, which, of course, rather refer to the connection between violence and aesthetics, to which the film owes its charm.

Because « Ballerina » is a bogwitch brokerage cinema of the striking kind. Each of the expansive, filigree and occasionally choreographed action scenes, in which Eve often has to defend herself against dozens of bad guys at the same time, has its own look – like rooms in a theme hotel.

Once you are beating yourself in the street gorges of a big city, the lights of which are reflected on rain -soaked streets, once a rustic farmhouse is tough. The most beautiful scene moves a little further than the rest of the film from the world as we know it: in a hallucinatory night club scenery – art fog, laser show and dull cheap technology everywhere – the film comes to itself and the killer ballerina is particularly formed.

As I said: you have to be able to get involved. If you are only looking for the true, good and beautiful in the cinema, you will be able to do little with all of this. However, if you have a weakness for supple-amoral popular culture, for ball films in which the will only for the sake of ballers will often believe in « Ballerina » as in the seventh heaven.