Waiting for Gadot
If Gal Gadot wants her Wonder Woman acclaim to transfer to a lucrative franchise like Sean Connery's or Tom Cruise's, she has a successful start in Netflix's Heart of Stone. While no critic would be able to find a creative element in this highly-formulaic thriller, it has an AI called Heart, like the contraption in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny well worth fighting for, and her Rachel Stone the opposite of a stone, except when she kicks butt, which is often.
Stone is in a league of good people, The Charter, who have no affiliation but with other highly talented ex operatives without allegiance other than to good deeds and The Charter. It's gratifying to know perhaps too obviously the good guys from the bad.
Although this adherence to formula mitigates some of the fun of discovering who is good or bad, director Tom Harper and writers Greg Rucks and Allison Schroeder take the formula to its limits with surprises about characters we thought we knew.
Rachel is ordered to protect the Heart because in the hands of the bad guys, they could control the world. Such hyperbole is the stuff of thriller formula: "It knows you better than you know yourself. It's determinism ... its modeling is so accurate it can predict the future. The Heart is knowledge and power. It can crash a market or drop a plane out of the sky. ... If you own the heart, you own the world."
Thank goodness the filmmakers do not make this operation a one heroine show, for Jack of Hearts (Matthias Schweighofer) is the high-grade techie who heroically manages the AI down to telling Rachel the success percentage of each mission. The prediction is scarier than any Alien-like monster I've ever met.
Trying to recount Gadot's many motorcycle and parachute stunts would be useless since they are all pretty much the same, but still entertaining. Gadot is going to get no Oscar for her often-stoic mien, but she s does look sleek enough and talks tough enough to play Bond, if only Barbara Broccoli had not stated there would be no female 007. Heck with that-we will probably get a Stone franchise anyway. We'll just wait for Gadot.
If Gal Gadot wants her Wonder Woman acclaim to transfer to a lucrative franchise like Sean Connery's or Tom Cruise's, she has a successful start in Netflix's Heart of Stone. While no critic would be able to find a creative element in this highly-formulaic thriller, it has an AI called Heart, like the contraption in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny well worth fighting for, and her Rachel Stone the opposite of a stone, except when she kicks butt, which is often.
Stone is in a league of good people, The Charter, who have no affiliation but with other highly talented ex operatives without allegiance other than to good deeds and The Charter. It's gratifying to know perhaps too obviously the good guys from the bad.
Although this adherence to formula mitigates some of the fun of discovering who is good or bad, director Tom Harper and writers Greg Rucks and Allison Schroeder take the formula to its limits with surprises about characters we thought we knew.
Rachel is ordered to protect the Heart because in the hands of the bad guys, they could control the world. Such hyperbole is the stuff of thriller formula: "It knows you better than you know yourself. It's determinism ... its modeling is so accurate it can predict the future. The Heart is knowledge and power. It can crash a market or drop a plane out of the sky. ... If you own the heart, you own the world."
Thank goodness the filmmakers do not make this operation a one heroine show, for Jack of Hearts (Matthias Schweighofer) is the high-grade techie who heroically manages the AI down to telling Rachel the success percentage of each mission. The prediction is scarier than any Alien-like monster I've ever met.
Trying to recount Gadot's many motorcycle and parachute stunts would be useless since they are all pretty much the same, but still entertaining. Gadot is going to get no Oscar for her often-stoic mien, but she s does look sleek enough and talks tough enough to play Bond, if only Barbara Broccoli had not stated there would be no female 007. Heck with that-we will probably get a Stone franchise anyway. We'll just wait for Gadot.