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Aug 11, 2023 · Powered by JustWatch. Positioned as the start of a spy franchise for star Gal Gadot a la “ Mission: Impossible ” or the James Bond films, Tom Harper's “Heart of Stone” is the film equivalent of trying to make something go “viral.”. It’s an overly calibrated hodge-podge of better movies with absolutely no original thought of its ...
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Aug 10, 2023 · ‘Heart of Stone’ Review: Gal Gadot and Jamie Dornan Tangle in Familiar but Diverting Netflix Spy Thriller. Sophie Okonedo, Matthias Schweighöfer and Alia Bhatt also star in this race to...
Aug 10, 2023 · ‘Heart of Stone’ Review: Mission Improbable Gal Gadot plays an international superspy who teams up with an all-powerful computer in this ludicrous and derivative Netflix espionage thriller...
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Updated: Aug 11, 2023 1:05 am
Posted: Aug 11, 2023 1:00 am
Heart of Stone premieres August 11 on Netflix
Someone find Gal Gadot a worthy franchise to front, because Heart of Stone is not it. Netflix’s latest original action thriller plunks Gadot into the world-weary role of Rachel Stone, a gorgeous and super competent operative for Charter, an international underground peacekeeping organization who spy on the spies to maintain some murky mission statement about global balance. With the help of The Heart – referred to as “the world’s most powerful AI” – she is assigned to travel the world blowing up a lot of stuff and “stopping the bad guys” whomever they may be. Stone has the ennui of James Bond and the passport of Carmen Sandiego but is neutralized by a script stuffed with cardboard characters.
Heart of Stone opens with a lot of promise in an action-packed, super-sized prologue that introduces us to Stone on her first field mission with an established MI6 infiltration team that includes Jamie Dornan’s Parker. They’re assigned to an exclusive, mountain top Italian ski resort where a notorious arms dealer is about to make a very dangerous deal. Stone is undercover as the “green” tech noob they think they have to coddle. Turns out she’s actually a Charter operative tagging along to make sure the arms don’t get into the wrong hands.
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Nevertheless, a brilliant young hacker named Keya Dhawan (Alia Bhatt), who has a personal vendetta against The Heart, is determined to gain control of it via her own posse of oppositional thinkers and thugs. As Stone is all work and no play – perhaps some would even say she’s exploited by Charter – they share a sad-girl vibe of reciprocal understanding throughout the film. Director Tom Harper’s smartest call is to lean into Gadot’s inherent ability to create empathy between characters, which adds a lot of spark to Rachel and Keya’s scenes. But any real exploration of who they are as people, rather than their ideological leanings, is run over by the film’s frenetic pace.
Greg Rucka and Allison Schroeder’s script allows no space for any substantive moments of backstory or nuance for anyone in the cast. This is Heart of Stone’s Achilles heel: Stone and company are reduced to a collection of spy character tropes, saddled with consistently cringe-worthy dialogue, or worse, used as cannon fodder to elicit some kind of unearned emotional moment for the protagonist. But maybe that’s for the best, because otherwise the audience would have too much time to question the logic of how the people onscreen can survive a desert hike for hours with no water. Or how so many bullets never manage to hit Stone, even in open areas. At least when The Heart is operational, there’s a quasi-legitimate excuse for Stone’s inordinate good fortune. When it’s offline, the whole film devolves into improbable fantasy.
Heart of Stone doesn’t have much going for it beyond the presence of Gal Gadot in the central role. The screenplay might as well be written by an algorithm: a soulless amalgamation of the elements determined by current metrics to ensure an international hit. From the intercontinental cast stuck playing paper-thin characters to the loud and shiny vi...
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