Wednesday, 23 August 2023

VOD: Heart Of Stone (dir: Tom Harper, 2023)

"You know what you signed up for."

The ever-magnetic Gal Gadot here plays a double agent for MI6 and a shadowy group of ex-operatives The Charter on the trail of an elite computer programmer/hacker and a super-sophisticated AI system in this slick and muscular action-thriller.  The film positions itself alongside modern-day genre leaders such as the Mission: Impossible movies and the Bond series (with the great Sophie Okonedo here playing a more frosty world-weary version of Dench's M), its glamorous globetrotting , city-centre car chase and race-against-time finale all comfortably in place.  Whilst hardly ground-breaking, it is well-made, undemanding and entertaining action nonsense with some effective big set pieces.
 

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