Iadmittedly had doubts about "Ballerina" going in, and for the first few minutes of the movie, I was very worried. The film stumbles out of the gate, but thankfully, it eventually finds its footing and settles into a nice groove. Overall, it's not nearly as operatic as the main "John Wick" movies have become; Chad Stahelski infuses those films with such an idiosyncratic assortment of influences that they've become these epic, larger-than-life tales that sometimes feel more like myths than movies .

"Ballerina," directed by Len Wiseman, is more of a down-and-dirty, back-to-basics revenge tale. It feels more zeroed in on its protagonist — more personal, less mythological — and Ana de Armas, who plays a member of the Ruska Roma out for her own vengeance, proves she can not only hang with "J

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