Ballerina
Ballerina
An assassin trained in the traditions of the Ruska Roma organization sets out to seek revenge after her father's death.
RipLinesMan reviewedMay 12, 2025
Event Horizon (1997) dragged you through a black hole into space hell, and Ballerina does the same, just swap the haunted ship for a grieving assassin in a tutu with a Glock, bro. This thing is cold, brutal, and poetic in the most "I-will-end-you-with-grace" kinda way. Ana de Armas fully snaps in this, she’s got the same dead-inside intensity Sam Neill had before he went full chaos mode, but she channels it into precise violence and silent rage instead of demon summoning. The choreography is insane, like if ballet school trained Navy SEALs, and the whole Ruska Roma revenge arc feels like *Event Horizon* if you replaced the gore with emotional scarring and bullet storms. The cast slaps, Keanu shows up like a myth, Lance Reddick and Ian McShane add weight, and Norman Reedus looks like he lives in a bunker behind The Continental. The world feels haunted, even without ghosts, just grief, gunfire, and really sharp knives. 4 stars, bro. It's less sci-fi hell trip, more elegant execution spree... but it still leaves your soul limping.