Ballerina is a 90's action movie, and in that respect it's pretty awesome. The story doesn't matter, because it's so over the top and ridiculous.
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That flamethrower fight though...
It was a legitimate depiction of a firefighting technique, and I think we can all respect realistic action in films.
I'd be interested to know if that works in real life.
It does. I was being serious.
Fucking hell... thanks for that. I thought it was bullshit and no way it would work. Learn something new everyday.
Bonus: They did it for real:
So hot…
Yeah, she is, but she is dating Tom Cruise...
I probably enjoyed that the most! But the part where fire vs water...
That was actually the most realistic part. Everything else was a bit less so. The fight is only possible with Hollywood unreal bravery, they grossly undermine the scariness of heat and smoke. I get that they were mostly murderous psychopaths, but fear of fire is very primal. Even in war flamethrowers were mostly to create area denial to flush troops out of entrenched positions. Fighting flame against flame is guaranteed mutual suicide.
I mean, it's in line with everything else John Wick. Nothing too far from belief, action scenes are solid. My only 'wtf' was why the sister plot point was at all needed since they killed her literally 2 minutes after the 'big reveal'
Your only gripe and yet you don't mention the absolute bullshit of the first fight scene w/ paramilitary raiding the defended chateau? Pfft. There's so much simply half-assed & masturbatory in that first 10 minutes of the flick, I'm confident the rest of the movie was jerkily dribbled out and getting cold by the time they sent it to production.
Wasn't there a martial arts flick out of Asia somewhere by the same name, recently?
That looked promising, but this? I couldn't make it through the first fight scene (first scene, FWIW) without losing all faith in its ability to come back from its numerous wtf moments. 🙄
Korean movie from 2023, I very much preffered the Korean movie.
I very much liked the movie, it was what I expected of it.
This article does read like a GPT generated text because of the way it's paragraphed, titled and worded. Doesn't read very comfortably.
Fluffy fight film.
That's a lot of letters to say "PoS" 🤪
The alliteration is fun.
NGL, an action flick with the hero fighting his way up the Fluffy ladder would be worth a watch. (Ballerina is not.)
I mean, you could even cast Iglesias for a bit part as a Fluffy villain wannabe (if he's ready to laugh at himself yet), and have Butterbean be the Big Bad. (That one's for you.)
And a scene where the hero shoves a big glob of Fluffernutter sandwich that chokes the bad guy....
Primo product placement!