jeremiah causing

What happens in John Wick 3 & 4: The timeline from Chapter 2 → 3 → 4 is extremely compressed — almost everything happens within a week or less. At the end of Chapter 3, Wick is badly wounded, excommunicated, and on the run. By Chapter 4, Winston blows up the Continental, and Charon is killed by the Marquis early in the film. What’s conflicting in Ballerina: John meets Eve near the start, asks for passage, implying it’s right after Parabellum. Then Eve’s journey continues for weeks, maybe months. When she meets Winston and Charon, Charon is still alive, and the Continental is still standing. But if this is supposed to be two months later, by Wick’s timeline, the Continental should be gone, and Charon should already be dead. The filmmakers seem to ignore the tight timeframe of the main John Wick story. Or they tried to create a more flexible timeline just for Ballerina, but it doesn't align with canon. This leads to what you correctly pointed out: Ballerina feels like it forgets the real-time urgency of John Wick’s world. --- Final Thoughts: John Wick's core series is like a ticking time bomb — a few days of nonstop chaos. But Ballerina stretches time unrealistically, as if Wick had months of downtime, which contradicts his wounded, hunted state during those films. If Ballerina wanted to make full sense, it should’ve either: Happened before John was excommunicated (pre-Chapter 2), Or occurred entirely parallel within just a couple of days between Chapter 3 and 4 (compressed, like the originals), Or been more careful to exclude Charon and the Continental if set “2 months later.”