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FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK: BALLERINA

Running time: 125 minutes. Rated R (strong/bloody violence throughout, and language). In theaters.

Even assassins get a universe now.

Continuing the weedy sprawl of a franchise that hardly needs it is “From the World of John Wick: Ballerina,” an origin-to-revenge story about Eve, a dancer and a paid murderer played by Ana de Armas.

Call her Killing Eve II.

Or Wick the Worse.

The first four “John Wick” films , starring Keanu Reeves, are fantastic and artful orgies of death with stunner locations such as Sacré-Cœur stairs in Paris and the Moroccan desert. The imagery is often breathtaking, and Reeves’ steely resolve more than makes up for the thinness of the plots.

Too bad “Ballerina” drops the ball. Despite being led by an actres

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