![]() ![]() (“Dead Reckoning,” for all its thrills, has about as much to do with today's international politics as its star has to do with lengthy interviews with journalists.) And “Heart of Stone," directed by Tom Harper ( "Wild Rose," “ The Aeronauts” ), does have a few nifty moves of its own. After all, there have been countless lackluster espionage thrillers with little connection to the real world. “Mission: Impossible” was born out of the Cold War, but “Heart of Stone” conjures a peacekeeping spy unit outside of nationhood in the hopes of kickstarting a new franchise uncluttered by governments - a globetrotting spy movie without all those pesky geopolitics a borderless intelligence agency for a borderless streaming era. ![]() Both films, interestingly, are products of the same production company, Skydance. Whereas “Dead Reckoning” pushed old-school filmmaking to extremes for a gripping theatrical experience, “Heart of Stone” revels in its digital wizardry, feels vaguely algorithm-y in its conception and was made for Netflix. ![]() Like “Mission: Impossible,” “Heart of Stone” hits glamorous global destinations (the Italian Alps, Lisbon, Senegal, Iceland) and features lengthy actions sequence including a wingsuit skydive. ![]() “Heart of Stone” stars Gal Gadot as Rachel Stone, an agent for an elite and clandestine intelligence agency called the Charter. It's turning out to be quite a summer for superspies and supercomputers.Ī month after the action feast of “Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part I," in which Tom Cruise faced off with an AI supervillain called “the Entity,” comes a very “MI”-like international espionage thriller with an equally fancy and powerful machine. ![]()
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