What happens when you pit a group of dysfunctional ballerinas against a ruthless gang of mercenaries? According to Vicky Jewson’s new action thriller Pretty Lethal, not quite the bloodbath you’d expect.
The new Prime Video movie, which had its flashy premiere at the SXSW Film & TV Festival on March 13, follows a ballerina troupe whose bus breaks down enroute to a competition in Budapest, forcing them to take shelter in a shady roadside inn. Well, it’s less an inn and more of a manor — a crumbling kingdom where Uma Thurman’s shady mob boss Devora Kasimer reigns, keeping her bloodthirsty henchmen in check while building a creepy altar to her glory days as a former ballerina. The ballerinas — Bones (Maddie Ziegler), Princess (Lana Condor), Zoe (Iris Apatow), Chloe (Millicent Simmonds), and Grace (Avantika) — are unsettled by their strange surroundings, but embrace their host’s hospitality... until their coach Miss Thorna (Lydia Leonard) is brutally slaughtered by one trigger-happy henchman.
