SummaryAn intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency races to stop a hacker from stealing its most valuable — and dangerous — weapon.
SummaryAn intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency races to stop a hacker from stealing its most valuable — and dangerous — weapon.
Heart of Stone is the rare streaming movie that does not open with an in medias res action sequence, followed by a “[Some Amount of Time] Earlier” card and a flashback to simpler days.
Various spycraft tropes litter director Tom Harper’s globetrotting narrative, though Gadot’s charm offensive and her character’s righteous fervor help counter the film’s wilder plot swings.
The cinematography looks striking enough throughout the various set pieces, but little happens in them to elevate Heart of Stone past its hackneyed foundation.
Heart of Stone is allegedly a starter of a new spy thriller franchise, although opinions about this movie vary I personally enjoyed it and would very much like to see the next part.
For me the action was quite good so I am rating more based on that as it is action movie, but the story could have been more interesting instead of this one quite predictable.
(Mauro Lanari)
After "Wonder Woman", Miss Israel 2004 intends to carve out a place between 007 and Ethan Hunt, the role of heroine in action movies, the female and feminist super secret agent. Probably her career as a model forces her to use stunt doubles, otherwise she would have the athletic and military training to imitate Cruise, while so she resorts to Reeves' tricks in the "John Wick" saga: long hair or helmet to hide her face. To me, it didn't seem like a better or worse product than the other male franchises: it conforms to their average standard.
PS: the "Eye of God" has already been used as a planetary bogeyman in "Fast & Furious 7" (Wan 2015), the comparison between AI and the human quid was already at the center of "I, Robot" (Proyas 2004), and the graphic rendering of "The Heart" recovers the imaginary Precrime/precog device of "Minority Report" (Spielberg 2002), where the protagonist was Cruise again. The world of Hollywood screenwriters is quite small.