Presented as the beginning of a new spy series starring Gal Gadot, like “Mission: Impossible” or James Bond films, Tom Harper’s movie ‘Heart of Stone movie review is like trying to make something very popular, but it falls flat. It’s a mix of other, better movies without any original ideas. The characters are like ones we have seen before, and the way it’s made doesn’t make it exciting.
Gal Gadot plays Rachel Stone, who is part of a secret peacekeeping group called the Charter. She pretends to be a new MI6 tech agent. She travels to different places like the Alps, London, Lisbon, Senegal, and Iceland, but the movie doesn’t show these places in an interesting way.
Rachel’s boss, Nomad, played by Sophie Okonedo, is not very lively. She recruited Rachel when she was 20, but we don’t know much about why or how. The movie doesn’t explain.
Matthias Schweighöfer, who is often in Netflix shows, plays Rachel’s tech helper named “Jack of Hearts.” He uses a special computer called The Heart to help her with information. It looks cool, but it’s not very original. It’s like something we’ve seen before in another movie.
The Charter’s mission is talked about a lot in the movie, but it’s not very clear. The characters talk in ways that explain things too much, and they try to sound cool but it doesn’t work. Some of the actors do their best with their parts, but they don’t have enough time to make their characters feel real.
Jamie Dornan’s character, Parker, is not as interesting as he could be. He should be more exciting. Alia Bhatt’s character, Keya, is a hacker, but she acts like a character we’ve seen many times before. Jon Kortajarena is the only one who really fits his role as a bad guy.
The movie is not as good as it could be. The people who wrote the script also wrote “The Old Guard,” which was better. The director, Tom Harper, didn’t do a good job with the actors and the action scenes. The action parts are not original and some look worse than in older movies.
The movie also talks about big ideas like “determinism,” but it doesn’t really explore them. It talks about using technology to save lives, but it doesn’t ask if it’s right. The main character talks with the bad guys about this, but she doesn’t question her own group’s actions.