dir. Tom Harper
Heart of Stone follows Rachel Stone (Gal Gadot), a deep cover agent working for a covert intelligence organisation, trying to rescue a computer system known as The Heart from bad actors (incidentally, as probably gleaned by Gal Gadot playing the main role, bad actors are rife in this film). The opening scene involves several bland characters saying bland things, utterly incomprehensible stunts, and a revelation that a character is not who they said they were. This is essentially the blueprint for the entire film. An attempt at a big infiltration is made; there’s a lot of chasing and shooting; people run away absolutely fine after doing a jump or fall which should’ve broken all their bones; someone turns the tables on someone else. All the while, people wave their hands at computerised simulations and type nonsensical strings of code, as though all of this is cutting-edge and futuristic instead of boring and repetitive. Unbelievably, the director has said he would like an entire franchise devoted to this character, but no one seems to be jumping to it. Fortunate, as Heart of Stone has proved two hours of this nonsense is already more than enough.
