Final Ballerina Trailer Pits De Armas Against Ruthless Foes

It’s been almost a year since From the World of John Wick: Ballerina first entered our lives. Since then, the Keanu Reeves-led action franchise has given us Ana de Armas’ first look in the spin-off film as well as its first and second trailers, both of which were enough to give fans a high. Now, with less than a month to go until its June 6, 2025 theatrical release, Lionsgate has released one final trailer for Ballerina that is, in a word, bonkers.

Set during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019), Ballerina stars Ana de Armas as Eve Macarro, one of the titular assassin’s protégés from the spin-off. As previously seen in a brief scene in Parabellum, Eve, played by Unity Phelan, was a member of the mysterious Ruska Roma crime organization, which was run by the shadowy woman known as the Director (Anjelica Huston). In that film, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) arrived at the Roma headquarters after the murder of crime lord Santino D’Antonio on the Continental Hotel grounds, to which the High Table responded by declaring him “excommunicado.” His bounty now worth several million dollars, Wick evaded his many pursuers throughout New York City before reaching the Ruska Roma, where he discovered the assassin organization was using ballerinas as part of their training regimen for young crime fighters.

Ana de Armas Plays Ballerina, a Deadly Dance-Inspired Assassin

Now, with Ballerina, de Armas gets her opportunity to showcase that deadly dance, and if the new trailer is any indication, she will do so with aplomb. In the first preview to hit the Internet back in September 2024, viewers were given a close-up glimpse at Eve’s upbringing and an inkling of her backstory. The film’s protagonist was born in Colombia to an adoring family, only to be orphaned when her father was murdered by unknown assailants.

Joining an underground fight organization as a child, the traumatized young woman would spend her formative years training to one day exact vengeance on her father’s killers. The second Ballerina trailer, released in March 2025, gave viewers a more complete look at de Armas as she took on multiple foes in brutal choreography, all in an attempt to infiltrate one of her enemies’ properties.

This third and final trailer is split roughly in half, the first half of which is new footage, while the second half of the clip recycles parts from the first two trailers. The clip begins with a close-up of de Armas looking up while, in the distance, an unseen gun’s scope hones in on her. The Russian ballerina is on edge, as is the audience, when a familiar face suddenly appears.

Keanu Reeves’ John Wick can be seen leering into a train window in the near distance, which instantly makes Eve duck for cover. As the sequence plays out, it’s clear she’s not ready to throw down with the three-time assassin, and her new target approaches Wick as she waits for the right moment to get in. Once that moment arrives, the pace ratchets up significantly as new and recycled clips of de Armas performing impressively violent and acrobatic combat with other villains are chopped together in a rapid-fire sequence.

It’s not much of a surprise to learn that the film’s signature ballet-meets-assassin choreography is very much a real thing and not just some action movie hokum. From the heady blur of gunfire and clanging punches to the slicing swords and slick martial arts moves, it’s clear that Ana de Armas, who is shooting back-to-back feature films with this release, took the film’s action as seriously as the writing and character development. Balls of steel are a given in the world of John Wick, but de Armas sports those and more.

This latest John Wick trailer also showcases de Armas reciting some of the film’s most important dialogue, specifically the line “This isn’t done until they’re dead.” A more direct quote of her mission to hunt down her father’s killers is hard to come by, and the part helps to emphasize that, as she puts it, the movie is not a “game.” This quote also helps to reemphasize de Armas’ character as someone with much in common with John Wick himself.

Played by Reeves in the franchise that began in 2014, the taciturn hitman was effectively a retired assassin before the first John Wick film and was just trying to make it through his last days with a little bit of dignity, and some puppy dog love to boot. However, when his wife, Helen (played by Bridget Moynahan), is murdered and his home is ransacked in the first film, the rugged veteran puts away his retirement savings and his beloved puppy and once again takes up the mantle of “Saint with a Machine Gun.”

As Eve also makes a point to reiterate in the trailer, these aren’t regular people she’s hunting either. This particular line and the general tone it sets for the action-packed film also help to solidify Ana de Armas’ Ballerina as the third chapter in the John Wick saga. However, while that might frighten off some of the series’ casual fans, from what has been seen from trailers and behind-the-scenes videos thus far, a good John Wick film requires an almost confrontational emotional detachment to balance out all of the stylized violence.