There’s a moment in these “John Wick” movies that always makes me sad. It’s the scene where some character gets a multimillion-dollar bounty on their head, and it turns out everyone in the whole world was a secretly an assassin all along. Everyone, that is, except me. Nobody invited me to this mad murder party you are all having. So if you’re reading this and smirking because you just garroted a mob informant and you’re feeling pretty good about yourself, congratulations! I guess you’re special and I’m not. Thanks, “John Wick.” If your goal was to make me cry, mission accomplished.
“From the World of John Wick: Ballerina” is the first motion picture spin-off of the “John Wick” franchise, and the extended title says it all. They are desperate to make sure you know this is technically