![]() ![]() I’m not sure any of them get a chance to do all that much, though Bhatt is charmingly mischievous in her scenes. ![]() Glenn Close pops in as the head of the CIA. ![]() The trouble is kicked off by a hacker of mysterious intentions played by Alia Bhatt, a Bollywood star making her Hollywood debut. Its operator (Matthias Schweighöfer), like a new-age John King, contorts a room full of pixels with the wave of his hand, while guiding Charter agents from afar.Īlso in the mix is Jamie Dornan’s Parker, the leader of the MI6 unit that Stone is initially masquerading in - though his affiliations are also murky. The film’s handsomest design comes in Charter’s secret weapon: the Heart, the so-named quantum computer with supreme hacking abilities that can process chance-of-success scenarios in real time. To the credit of Harper, cinematographer George Steel and production designer Charles Wood, the action is generally fluid in Heart of Stone. This allows for plenty of “She can do that?” looks when the operation falls apart and Stone begins flashing Cruise-level skills while rushing off with a glowing parachute down the darkened slopes in a slinky, snowy chase. The film’s opening sequence begins in a very Bond-like Alpine hotel where Gadot’s Stone is part of an MI6 mission posing as an inexperienced tech, not a field agent. ( 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. ![]()
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