10 Recent Movies With Reshoots EVERYONE Noticed
2. Ballerina
Now to be fair, few movies in recent memory have gone through more widely publicised reshoots than John Wick spin-off Ballerina, which reportedly, due to poor test screenings, reshot a significant number of its set pieces.
Initial reports indicated that Chad Stahelski, who has directed all four mainline Wick movies, was brought in to reshoot most of the film, which was initially helmed by Len Wiseman (Underworld). However, both filmmakers refuted this, claiming that Stahelski merely assisted on a few weeks of reshoots.
Either way, the movie as a whole feels like a whirlwind of Things stapled together, clumsily lurching from boring, exposition-filled chit-chat to electrifying action in a manner that gives the film a rather schizophrenic feel - like, indeed, it was shot by two different directors.
It's tough not to watch Ballerina's terrific late-stage action - particularly an unforgettable sequence involving a flamethrower - and immediately peg it as the most Stahelski-ass set piece you've ever seen.
It's entirely of-a-piece with the Wick films, and so easy to credit all of the picture's more breakneck bursts of violence to Stahelski, while the more flat, energy-devoid scenes feel wholly consistent with most of Wiseman's previous work as a director. Harsh? A bit. True? Almost certainly.