Gal Gadot who is back with another big-budget franchise-starter ‘Heart of Stone’ is finally streaming on Netflix.
Unlike ‘content’ like ‘The Gray Man’ and ‘Ghosted’ — Heart of Stone is different and new and the most newly introduced thing in the movie is Alia Bhatt’s debut in a Hollywood movie.
She is undeniably one of the top-notch actresses of Bollywood but Indian critics believe she has been wasted in this movie.
While she obviously knew that she was signing up for a Gal Gadot vehicle, her role here is the equivalent of what Nathalie Emmanuel does in the ‘Fast & Furious’ movies.
Plot
Gadot plays Rachel Stone, who, after spending the first act essentially in disguise as a timid data-cruncher embedded in the MI6, undergoes a Naina Catherine Kapur-ification, and transforms into an elite super spy.
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Rachel belongs to a secret agency called The Charter, whose job is to maintain global peace through vaguely defined methods. Sometimes, it seems like The Charter is like the Impossible Mission Force from the Mission: Impossible movies, and other times, it seems like a less cult-y version of the Kingsmen from Matthew Vaughn’s movies.
Their secret hideout looks like the inside of an old Rajasthani fort repurposed for a Nappa Dori outlet, complete with a pet peacock and everything.
Cast
Directed by Tom Harper, the spy action thriller stars Gal Gadot, Jamie Dornan, Alia Bhatt, Sophie Okonedo, and Matthias Schweighöfer.
Release date
‘Heart of Stone’ has been released by Netflix on August 11, 2023.
