What if an American ballerina quintet was dropped into a mob flick in Central Europe? Director Vicky Jewson answers this question in “Pretty Lethal,” at first with aplomb, but eventually with all the follies this setting implies, and few of the imaginative strengths. The film does a small handful of things rather well, so it does each them more than once, from repeated action beats, to popular needle drops about dancing whether or not they tonally fit. But its premise never evolves enough to let loose in ridiculous fashion, yielding diminishing returns.
Bones (Maddie Ziegler) is a street-smart, rough-around-the-edges dancer in a world of wealth, but she’s made it far enough to earn a major solo, making her a target of ire for her spoiled, prim-and-proper ballet company teammate Princess (Lana Condor). Their very names evoke the scrappy and the bratty, broad characteristics that make them a halfway decent…
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