Heart of Stone 4K 2023 2160p WEB-DL

Mission Impossible-style spy thriller about CIA agent Rachel Stone (Gal Gadot). The woman works for a secret peacekeeping organization and must stop a hacker who intends to steal valuable and dangerous weapons.

Heart of Stone 4K Review
Hollywood actors and screenwriters continue to strike in the USA. Two points of their demands are of the greatest interest: regulation of artificial intelligence and transparency of data from streaming services. No agreements on both have been reached yet, which is not surprising: producers are much more willing to pay AI specialists than ordinary authors, and they will not disclose the statistics of views, especially not to disclose them - the credibility of streaming will be seriously affected if everyone realizes that "the king is naked", and the numbers have been manipulated for years for a sense of status. Amidst the strikes comes Netflix's intentionally mockumentary project "Heart of Stone," an unsolicited answer to Tom Cruise and his "Mission Impossible" franchise with zero artistic value; illogical, without a developed identity, lacking a sane script and dialog from a chatbot.

In the center of the plot spy organization "Charter", competing with the world's intelligence agencies and cleaning up after them. It has achieved great influence thanks to the powerful machine intelligence "Heart", which will find and neutralize any criminal in seconds. Following the "Heart" are highly trained agents, "sixes" and "nines". Rachel Stone (Gal Gadot) stands out among them: working as a double agent for British intelligence always keeps her in a world of intrigue and betrayal. When "Heart" is kidnapped, the heroine applies the entire extensive arsenal to recover the device and learns quite a few "shocking" secrets.

Dangerous weapons in the hands of desperate villains - one of the main plot tropes of modern action movies - looks ironic and almost denunciatory in the hands of Netflix. To quote the heroine of the TV series Euphoria, the piece is in some ways really about them, the executives of a streaming service who know no measure of their own greed. Because of the straightforwardness and lack of humor of the creators, director Tom Harper ("Aeronauts") and screenwriters Greg Rucka ("The Immortal Guard") and Allison Schroder ("Christopher Robin"), it's almost unrealistic to soberly assess the stereotypical set of stereotypes here. For the most part, "Heart of Stone" is a ridiculously generated, multimillion-dollar piece of plastic that pollutes Hollywood's already shaky ecology. According to content managers, sophisticated viewers will enjoy the nostalgic journey into the world of international espionage, but with extras for the current times. The picture has already topped the weekly Netflix novelty chart, but in theaters it would probably fail without recouping the budget. The reason lies in the underestimation of the intellectual and visual abilities of the audience, which will instantly get bored, anticipating all the twists.

Gal Gadot's acting range continues to amaze and raise questions. The lack of even a hint of screen charisma does her no honor in comparison with the unattainable Cruise, which is tacitly put here as an example - convincing Gadot is still only in cashing a large check. From a professional point of view to find her signs of a star of action movies is still impossible. It is quite reasonable that the main antagonist of "Heart of Stone" put up the same anti-charismatic Jamie Dornan, whose storyline is completely exhausted by the end. The second plan is more stable: there is a cheerful Mattias Schweighofer from "Army of the Dead" and even a Glenn Close cameo. A vague impression is left by Bollywood star Alia Bhatt ("RRR") and her heroine-geekess with unclear principles: the girl was deceived by Dornan's villain, but eventually took the side of conventional goodness, allowing her to continue exploiting her computer genius skills.

"Heart" swerves from snow-capped mountains to African deserts, dashes through the streets of Lisbon, and drowns in the grayness of Icelandic landscapes. The fight scenes are reminiscent of Jennifer Lopez's recent stardom in Netflix's "Mother" (e.g., the futility of being). Steven Soderbergh and Nicolas Winding Refn were right: Hollywood either gives in by making its processes transparent, raises employee salaries and guarantees protection from AI, or burns to the ground. The second option, while radical, is not so heartless.