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Ana de Armas' Ballerina keeps you on your toes in this action-packed thriller, writes BRIAN VINER
BRIAN VINER: 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'.
More than anything, Eve wants to nail the international criminal gang who killed her poppa, which leads her (after a spot of mass murder in Prague) to a picture-postcard Alpine village, snowy home to a ruthless cove known only as the Chancellor, suavely played by Gabriel Byrne. Thus the stage is set for lashings of genuinely suspenseful action and properly stomach-churning gore, although the credibility of the plot goes overboard a few times, not least when we see just how many travellers Tucker has turned into shark bait without eliciting, as far as we can tell, the slightest interest from the Gold Coast cops. But actually the whole point of Joachim Lang's tremendously potent German-language picture is not to depict Adolf Hitler (Fritz Karl) and his devoted propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels (Robert Stadlober) as monsters, rather as human beings warped and twisted by their hatred of Jews and their love of power.
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