{"id":41691,"date":"2026-05-16T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41691"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:07:21","slug":"ballerina-2025-starring-ana-de-armas-anjelica-huston-gabriel-byrne-lance-reddick-norman-reedus-ian-mcshane-and-keanu-reeves-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41691","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ballerina&#8221; (2025) starring Ana de Armas, Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Reddick, Norman Reedus, Ian McShane and Keanu Reeves \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z051626zview_ballerina.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Ballerina <\/i><\/b>(2025)<\/p>\n<p>Director:<strong>Len Wiseman; Chad Stahelski <\/strong>(uncredited for reshoots)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Shay Hatten;<\/strong> based on characters created by <strong>Derek Kolstad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Ana de Armas, Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Reddick, Norman Reedus, Ian McShane <\/strong>and <strong>Keanu Reeves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>The past can be a trigger.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot (beware of spoilers)&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eve Macarro was the child of assassins.\u00a0 After the death of her mother, Eve was being raised by her father.\u00a0 When a cult came to kill him, Eve&#8217;s father helped her escape before he was murdered.\u00a0 Eve was then raised by the the Ruska Roma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ruska Roma appeared to be an academy that trained children to become experts in ballet.\u00a0 It is actually a front.\u00a0 Although trained to be dancers, the children&#8217;s real instruction was so they would become proficient assassins and body guards.<\/p>\n<p>Eve becomes one of the best.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After one of her missions, Eve discovers that her target was in the same cult that killed her father.\u00a0 Despite being warned to take no action against them, Eve is determined to avenge her father&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even if it turns the Ruska Roma against her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ana de Armas did most of her own stunts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Ballerina<\/em> is set in the world of John Wick and takes place between <em>John Wick: Chapter 3 &#8211; Parabellum<\/em> and <em>John Wick: Chapter 4.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director Len Wiseman&#8217;s original cut fell short of expectations. Chad Stahelski reportedly reshot much of <em>Ballerina<\/em> without Len Wiseman&#8217;s involvement.\u00a0 This pushed back the release date about a year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><b><i>Ballerina (2025) <\/i><\/b>rates 4 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z051626zview_ballerina2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballerina (2025) Director:Len Wiseman; Chad Stahelski (uncredited for reshoots) Screenplay: Shay Hatten; based on characters created by Derek Kolstad Stars:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41692,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41691\/revisions\/41692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}