Heart of Stone (I) (2023)
8/10
Roller-coaster ride with Gal Gadot
14 August 2023
I really enjoyed this fantasy thriller with it's excellent and likeable cast led by Wonder Woman Gal Gadot. I'm rather surprised by the low rating on here as I thought it was an entertaining two hours.

Action for most of the time is at break neck speed and the plot is relatively easy to follow. The actors can be heard for a change and lacks the current fashion for mumbling which I hate. I think it's better than the last Bond movie "No Time To Die" and miles ahead of "Wonder Woman 1984".

The cinematography is great and often panoramic. I'm no expert in the technology of modern movies but it looked just as good as any Marvel, Star Wars or other fantasy flick to me.

These films are mostly the same anyway, heroes and villains carrying out ridiculously impossible feats so just go along for the ride. The writing is not great but some jokey one liners have always been thrown in to these since the early Bond days.

Gal Gadot has the charisma to carry a film and I thought Jamie Dornan was quite good and less bland than he's been up to now. He's starting to look a bit like Colin Firth as he gets older.

A fun two hours well directed by Tom Harper I thought.
84 out of 158 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink

Recently Viewed