Review: 'John Wick' spinoff 'Ballerina' twirls beautifully but aimlessly

There’s a moment in “John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum” where our aggrieved assassin goes to visit his adoptive mother figure, The Director (Angelica Huston) at the Tarkovsky Theater, where she commands the training of ballerinas and the assassins of the Ruska Roma tribe, of which John Wick was once a member.

He pleads for the Director’s help while in the background, the ballerina dancing on stage collapses, her sagging shoulders inked with an elaborate tattoo. It’s an evocative image, conjuring up the idea of a delicate but powerful female warrior, a dancer who wields weapons with grace. Ballet is a brutal, bloody endeavor, after all.

From that scene has now sprung a “John Wick” spinoff, the ungracefully titled “From the World of John Wick: Ballerina.” From the jump, "Ballerina" has a l