Violent – but elegant

'SKOP, SKIET EN DONNER': VENGEANCE AS ART FORM

- Thami Kwazi

If you have been missing the sweet chaos of skop, skiet en donner on the big screen, then The Ballerina is the action-packed comeback you have been waiting for.

It is a film that pirouettes between grace and grit, offering a stylish extension of the John Wick universe that manages to feel familiar yet fresh.

With a mix of ballet precision and blood-soaked vengeance, The Ballerina delivers an elegant kind of violence that will keep your popcorn-hand frozen midair.

Set in the same shadowy world of assassins and secret codes that made John Wick a global hit, the film stars Ana de Armas as Rooney, a ballerina trained not just in the art of dance but also in the deadly precision of combat.

Rooney's world collapses when tragedy strikes her family, and she sets out on a mission to avenge their deaths. What follows is a cinematic dance of bullets, bruises and breathtaking choreography that turns vengeance into an art form.

De Armas owns the role with fiery elegance. She embodies a woman who can switch from vulnerability to viper mode in seconds, gliding across the screen with the kind of physical control that only a true ballerina could master.