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'Heart Of Stone' movie review: Routine but watchable Action espionage thriller
Updated On: 12 August, 2023 03:12 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas
Heart Of Stone movie review: There’s obviously nothing new here but there’s enough exhilaration created by the rejigging of traditional tried and tested spy thriller tropes to make the mission seem like a tense, high-stakes one
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Film: Heart of Stone (Netflix)
Cast: Gal Gadot, Jamie Dornan, Alia Bhatt, Sophie Okonedo, Matthias Schweighöfer, Paul Ready, Jing Lusi, Archie Madekwe, Enzo Cilenti, Jon Kortajarena
Director: Tom Harper
Rating: 2.5/5
Runtime: 122m
Heart of Stone is yet another reworking of the James Bondesque action thriller. There’s non-stop action, aerial and chase thrills, spills, double crosses, vehicle crashes, a large body count and surfeit of explosions. The only difference here is that the Bond-like secret agent at the center of it all is a woman, aka Wonder Woman Gal Gadot as Rachel Stone. Screenwriters Greg Ruck and Allison Schroeder fashion an escapist fare that has a ‘mission impossible’ at the heart of it. An able cast ( including desi girl Alia Bhatt essaying the role of a counter/rogue agent Keya Chavan with spunky sizzle even though her role is just a sidebar to the main lead ) and some frenzied action set pieces and minimal dialogue helps bolster the experience to watchable.
The storyline is rather convoluted. Masquerading as a fledgling MI-6 agent, Rachel Stone (Gal Gadot) is not just a meek tech expert, She belongs to the Charter, a global peacekeeping force that has planted agents to work behind the scenes in much of the world`s power structures. Her fellow field agents, Parker (Jamie Dornan), Theresa (Jing Lusi), and Bailey (Paul Ready), don’t have an inkling about her secret. Stone works under instructions from a super-advanced computer called the ‘Heart’ and only realises the danger it can lead to when the disruptive and brilliant Keya (Alia Bhatt) interrupts an operation. And yes…there’s a skeleton key involved here too!
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