Heart of Stone is an extremely disappointing Netfix action movie staring Gal Gadot and seems to to fall within a glut of other pretty expensive but massively disappointing action (usually spy) movies created by certain streaming services recently (The Grey Man jumps to mind as one prominent example).
We get a CGI heavy and over the top sequence of action set pieces and a cast of very poor actors reading a very poor script. They throw in 'team banter' from the off in a not subtle imitation of Mission Impossible (which took 4-5 movies to master the perfect action to comedy / banter ratio). These actors just can't pull in off and we know nothing about them to give us a reason to even care.
All the budget has gone on CGI with skydiving with no parachute sequences (again, yawn). So much is just cut and pasted from MI, Bourne, James Bond and many other films, and when it is clearly CGI you feel empty from it, with no investment in an outcome.
Maybe I'm being harsh but it is such an unoriginal movie and offers nothing new.
4/10.
We get a CGI heavy and over the top sequence of action set pieces and a cast of very poor actors reading a very poor script. They throw in 'team banter' from the off in a not subtle imitation of Mission Impossible (which took 4-5 movies to master the perfect action to comedy / banter ratio). These actors just can't pull in off and we know nothing about them to give us a reason to even care.
All the budget has gone on CGI with skydiving with no parachute sequences (again, yawn). So much is just cut and pasted from MI, Bourne, James Bond and many other films, and when it is clearly CGI you feel empty from it, with no investment in an outcome.
Maybe I'm being harsh but it is such an unoriginal movie and offers nothing new.
4/10.