Pretty Lethal (now streaming on Amazon Prime Video) banks heavily on the irony of its core premise: Young-woman ballet dancers who go from cabriole to watch-the-blood-spray after they’re held captive by ugly goons. This isn’t really a stretch, of course – fight choreography is just dance choreography with more contact (and untimely death, of course), as one of this film’s primary influences, John Wick, repeatedly illustrated. Vicky Jewson (Close) directs this should-be-funnier/should-be-more-rousing, action-heavy, brutally R-rated lark about a group of girls whose white tutus will inevitably be stained with lots of red, especially after they outfit the toes of their slippers with razor blades. A neat gimmick? Sure. But the movie doesn’t seem to have any other good ideas to go with it.
The Gist: This girl’s name is Bones (Maddie Ziegler). Is that on her driver’s license? Just a nickname? Are her parents big Trekkies maybe? Dunno. Why am
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