Heart of Stone is yet another huge Netflix blockbuster that's so desperate to get a franchise going that just doesn't understand how these films should work. The marketing is so ready to brag that it's the executive producers of Dead Reckoning but this makes every wrong decision that film didn't make.
It's dull, it's derivative, it's forgettable and somehow even worse than all of the previous attempts to get a spy franchise going from Netflix (please don't let this get a sequel). Every CGI action set piece is bad, lacking any weight and is only laughable opposed to thrilling.
Gal Gadot is definitely capable of leading something like this but Rachel Stone is such a boring character with no depth and spends most of the film refusing to connect or open up which only makes it worse. Jamie Dornan is way better though, he's allowed to have fun with it whilst everyone else is overly serious.
Whilst Tom Harper really can't direct action scenes the film generally looks more vibrant than something like The Gray Man and avoids the excessively grey colour palette for 90 minutes at least. The music by Steven Price feels like it belongs to a completely different movie but definitely sounds like a better movie.
It's dull, it's derivative, it's forgettable and somehow even worse than all of the previous attempts to get a spy franchise going from Netflix (please don't let this get a sequel). Every CGI action set piece is bad, lacking any weight and is only laughable opposed to thrilling.
Gal Gadot is definitely capable of leading something like this but Rachel Stone is such a boring character with no depth and spends most of the film refusing to connect or open up which only makes it worse. Jamie Dornan is way better though, he's allowed to have fun with it whilst everyone else is overly serious.
Whilst Tom Harper really can't direct action scenes the film generally looks more vibrant than something like The Gray Man and avoids the excessively grey colour palette for 90 minutes at least. The music by Steven Price feels like it belongs to a completely different movie but definitely sounds like a better movie.