Ballerina review: This action-packed thriller keeps you on your toes

Ballerina (15, 125 mins)

Verdict: Keeps you on your toes

Rating:

Nobody should be misled by the title of Ballerina into trying to take their eight-year-old daughter to see it. It's marketed as 'from the world of John Wick' and is one of the most insanely violent films of the year. But if you like that sort of thing, and don't mind a plot so perfunctory that it's really only there to link one outbreak of murderous mayhem to the next, then Ballerina will keep you on your toes. It's propulsive, action-packed and quite thrillingly bonkers. A duel between a man with a whopping flamethrower and a woman with a thunderous hose is worth the price of admission alone. Keanu Reeves, as Wick, pops up only fleetingly, at the beginning and the end. He hasn't learnt to talk any faster since the last film, but can still load and draw a gun twice as quickly as it takes him to complete a sentence.