"Ballerina" - a film set in the John Wick universe - has finally hit theaters. The new film is set during the events of "John Wick Chapter 3 – Parabellum" and follows Ana de Armas as Eve - a woman who is trained to be an assassin secretly at a ballet school.

Ana de Armas takes center stage in a John Wick prequel about a dancing orphan's quest for vengeance. The plot flails, but the creative carnage gets an ovation.

Lionsgate was always going to need to take the John Wick franchise in a new direction if it wanted to keep the film series going after the inevitable exit of its central star. A spinoff series came and went with a telling lack of fanfare that spoke,