It’s difficult to describe the plot of the film without giving away one of those twists, but the basic gist is that Gadot plays Rachel Stone, an intelligence officer who finds herself in a get-the-tech chase involving a hyper capable computer program (sort of) and a cabal of ethically shaded baddies. Harper actually interacts with these locations they are not mere static backdrops for uninspired action. (Star Gal Gadot is perhaps not as intent on sacrificing herself at the altar of entertainment as is Tom Cruise.) But Heart of Stone does still manage some visceral thrills, many of them staged in real locations: Lisbon, Iceland, a Senegalese desert, the Italian Alps. The film, written by Greg Rucka and Allison Schroeder, apes the M:I series’s geographical sweep and eye-popping stunt work, though a lot of the physical stuff seems heavily aided by computer graphics. If any of these intended franchise starters has a real chance of enduring success, maybe it’s this one. Directed by Tom Harper-the man behind both music drama Wild Rose and The Aeronauts, the ballooning documentary about the worst day of Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones’s life- Heart of Stone has a pep in its step, a sureness of tone and purpose that already puts it ahead of much of its brethren. Let’s see what happens with Heart of Stone (August 11), a livelier-than-the-Netflix-norm action caper that is, rather shamelessly, attempting a Mission: Impossible. ( The Gray Man is forging ahead anyway, though I’d presume the returns will be diminishing.) But the strategy didn’t pan out as well for Bright, or The Gray Man, or any number of other projects that were meant to enthuse audiences about a potential series. Partly because, well, those movies weren’t very good. The crunch and grind of Extraction has worked out pretty well, and another Old Guard film is in the offing. Netflix has long been on the hunt for action franchises.
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