Heart of Stone

The MI6 team formed by Parker (Jamie Dornan), Yang (Jing Lusi), Bailey (Paul Ready) and Rachel Stone (Gal Gadot) are chasing the dangerous arms dealer Mulvaney (Enzo Cilenti) in the Italian Alps. There is an incident with the Internet and Rachel, who is a hacker that works in the van to give support to the agents and not a field agent, needs to go inside the casino where Mulvaney is to access the security system. They intend to fake a heart attack in Mulvaney to extract him from his men, but things go wrong when the hacker Keya Dhawan (Alia Bhatt) infiltrates in their communication. Rachel Stone, who is secretly a Charter agent, helps Parker to be safe from Mulvany's men, and the dealer commits suicide with cyanide. Charter is an independent agency that has the powerful computer The Heart that is capable to hack any system and the agency keeps the world in balance with The Heart and their agents. Then the MI6 assign the team to go to Lisbon to capture Keya, but the team is attacked by several agents. Stone is forced to disclose her skills to save her friends when out of the blue, Parker kills Yang and Bailey. He drugs Rachel and tells that he wants The Heart, and she faints. Now she is recovered by the Charter with a Trojan implanted in her arm to access The Heart. Soon they learn the danger that Parker and Keya are to the Charter.

"Heart of Stone" is a spy movie that is a 007 wannabe with a powerful woman instead of a male agent in the lead role, presently the standard followed by Netflix. The screenplay is not good, and the plot begins without any explanation of what is the Charter or The Heart. The agency and the super-computer are developed later, but without explanation of how or by who the agency is maintained. The gorgeous Gal Gadot has good performance in the role of the agent Rachel Stone, but Keya Dhawan is a confused character. The villain Parker is also respectful, and the movie entertains in the end. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Agente Stone" ("Stone Agent")

I don't believe they were attempting to sell anything beyond a typical action movie here, so if that was their intention, they certainly succeeded! I went into it without expectations, and it turned out to be enjoyable, exactly what you anticipate from a movie like this.

The writing was a bit weak, which is a common trait in almost any action movies. However, there were two aspects that stood out and aren't typically seen in such films. Firstly, there was no excessively long fight scene where characters (especially women) are hit multiple times and keep on fighting. This was quite refreshing.

Secondly, they actually addressed the injuries sustained by the characters. In many movies, the main character gets hurt, but is miraculously fine just moments later. In this film they show the character's injuries and exhaustion throughout the entire movie. I thought this was well-executed, which is why I gave it a rating of 6.

Overall, it's a good movie if you simply want to switch off your mind for a few hours and not think about anything.

What happened to kicking back on a Friday night, with a cold drink and a big back of crisps and just enjoying the ride.

As somebody else mentioned, it is a bit like mission impossible on a smaller budget. Still plenty of action, one or two surprises and a feel good factor.

Will people just please stop whinging about every single film ever made and just enjoy them for what they are.....entertainment I thought the film was fun and I enjoyed it......the stunts and CGI on their own made it worth watching.

The characters were good and it left the viewer on a high ready for a sequel.....provided all the negative reviews don't kill it stone dead

Raise a cold beer to this one and enjoy it.

Like every other action film that Netflix release, this is a 5 at best. Another live action computer game, awful far fetched plot , terrible acting and nothing more than a 2 hour time filler at best. Whoever keeps commissioning films for Netflix needs to leave as it's the same drivel over and over again. 6 Underground, Red Notice blah blah blah, all the same glossy, style over substance rubbish. They must think that it's just teenage boys that watch Netflix as every so called action move is catered for them. I dread to think how much this cost but what a waste. A Waste of time and subscription.

This was quite infuriating, decent cast and action sequences, but such an awful, boring convoluted script full of cliches and total lack of believable characters. It feels like nobody did any audience testing or editing, a lot like Sentinel (ok that was a show) another soulless action movie that is like a B movie from the video store but with a real budget and people you have heard of. Don't really get what Netflix is doing, for all this money couldn't they have spent some on a decent writer? Was this written by AI? Gal Gadot was great and did a good job, Jamie Dorman is as boring as in everything else so at least he is consistent.