20 Recent Movie Plot Twists NOBODY Saw Coming
9. Lena Is Eve's Sister - Ballerina
John Wick spin-off Ballerina definitely isn't a film that needed a twist, like at all, but they went for it anyway.
During the movie we're eventually introduced to Lena (Catalina Sandino Moreno), a high-ranking member of the assassin cult led by the villainous Chancellor (Gabriel Byrne).
Given that Moreno is an Oscar-nominated actress, it was reasonable to assume that she'd have a major role to play, but even so, it's revealed basically totally out of nowhere that she's actually the sister of protagonist Eve (Ana de Armas).
The twist is fielded out in strangely half-assed fashion, as though even the filmmakers didn't really believe in it, before Lena swiftly dies a few minutes later and doesn't even get much of a meaningful interaction with her sibling at all.
Considering how much has been written about Ballerina's extensive reshoots, it's easy to believe that this plotline was hastily introduced in post-production in order to shoehorn some added emotional resonance to Eve's story. Didn't quite work, though.