‘Heart Of Stone’ Review: Gal Gadot And Jamie Dornan In Netflix’s Spy Thriller That Leans Heavily Into Familiar Bondian-Style Action Overload
deadline.comNetflix is clearly determined to play the major studio game of big star-driven action franchises. Extraction and its current sequel, The Gray Man (with the promise of more), Red Notice, and many others represent big screen type entertainment designed ultimately for people to watch on their couches at home.
This kind of stuff, while skillfully and expensively executed still works best at IMAX rather than your living room but the streamer is convinced they will goose subscriptions so expect more of it, and movies like Heart Of Stone , a convoluted spy thriller loaded with James Bond-style action set pieces but with a wonder woman in the name of Gal Gadot in the center of it all.
Taking a cue from Charlize Theron’s Netflix franchise, The Old Guard, this is a female-driven enterprise where the men, namely Jamie Dornan’s complicated bad guy, take a back seat for the most part.
In fact this is a Gadot vehicle all the way. Even right from the start we feel we are in Jane Bond territory with a 20 minute pre-credits action sequence set at a luxurious ski resort location in the Italian Alps (the Glacier Hotel Granaund at the highest point in Europe) where after pulling off some bait and switch moves in the Casino, MI6 tech expert Rachel Stone (Gadot) gets things flying with a thrill-a-second chase up and down the icy mountains in a scene clearly inspired by the 007 films.
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