The slam-bang stuff in this picture is too tediously routine. Greg Ruska and Allison Schroeder’s script has one pretty good twist, and Harper apparently had a decent budget to work with, judging by the diverse European locations.īut the effects-heavy action sequences still look cheesy in comparison with the likes of “Mission: Impossible” and “John Wick” - and too much of “Heart of Stone” is eaten up by those scenes, in which Stone and her associates zip their vehicles through crowded streets or make impossible leaps from very high places. He gets likably loose performances from Gadot’s supporting cast, which includes Sophie Okonedo as her no-nonsense Charter boss Nomad, Matthias Schweighöfer as Charter’s soft rock-loving tech genius the “Jack of Hearts,” and the always charming Jamie Dornan as Stone’s most simpatico MI6 team member, Parker. Director Tom Harper is a skilled pro, with notable credits in both film (“The Aeronauts”) and TV (“Peaky Blinders”). On the grand spectrum of Netflix’s original action movies, “Heart of Stone” lands a bit above the average. Stone is meant to keep tabs on her MI6 crew but her Charter orders change when the Heart gets stolen by Keya Dhawan (Alia Bhatt), a zealot who believes it’s a dangerous device. Secretly, Stone is working for a shadowy organization known as the Charter, assembled from some of the world’s most skilled operatives, dedicated to minimizing the loss of human life via missions overseen by an AI tool called the Heart. Gadot is Rachel Stone, introduced at the start of the film as a low-level MI6 agent: the kind who “stays in the van” and works comms while her team members are out risking their lives. Netflix’s “Heart of Stone” puts a small but noticeable spin on the globe-hopping espionage thriller by having Gal Gadot play a super-spy operating undercover within a different team of super-spies.
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