(ESP-ENG) Heart of Stone - Netflix wants its own 007!?

Hello friends, good vibes to all.

If there are powerful franchises in the world we would undoubtedly have to talk about Mission Impossible with the intrepid Ethan Hunt, all the films of the MI6 agent, 007 and look why not, even Fast and Furious and if you have already seen this new film of Gal Gadot you will realize that there is a very similar artifact within this plot that is also handled by Toretto and company. The thing here is that if you want to stand out, innovate, seek to create a solid and convincing fiefdom you have to take a risk and not take a bit of everything and create a kind of hybrid of something that already exists. I think even the most novice knows that but it seems that Tom Harper does not.

Heart of Stone is a movie about spies, undercover agents, global threats and people hungry for power, a formula used infinite times in cinema but always with something new or at least some try. I knew what I was going for the moment I hit play on the film, my only motivation was Gal Gadot, I'm not going to lie, I wanted to see if the role of a secret agent was as good as Wonder Woman and well, almost almost. We see her do the unthinkable many times, jumping from here to there, dodging bullets, driving all kinds of transportation, shooting and fighting; she does it all very well, the pitiful thing is the plot. But well, let's talk a bit then about the new from Netflix.

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This begins with Rachel Stone (Gal Gadot), an agent who belongs to a secret organization whose purpose is to maintain world order and balance at the tip of an incredibly advanced and sophisticated technology. Being so powerful, she is a piece of desire of anyone with a minimum of resources and skills to then get their hands on it and thus be able to control every operation that is done across the planet no matter how insignificant it is, hence it becomes a double-edged sword. Meanwhile there are missions to do and villains to catch, as always, and for that he will be helped by a team who among those is Parker (Jamie Dornan) along with two other agents.

Then the unexpected happens and an elusive hacker, Keya, (Alia Bhatt) appears and threatens to unmask this organization and expose all that is necessary. Evidently this puts everyone involved in check so they are put on high alert and begins a chase throughout the world in order to find the whereabouts of this person and all those who are helping her. It is from here that we start to see all the action of the film, the intrigue, the plot behind Stone's espionage and little else. I feel that it is not a top movie because there were things that did not convince me, there were things that were not told, I assume that everything will be a plan for the future but for the moment for me it was just simple and inconclusive entertainment.

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Inconclusive because? - Throughout the film there are many loose ends, situations that are left in the air, that are never explained, character backgrounds that make them flat, that is, there is too much context missing in many situations of the film which in my opinion takes away depth and many times interest. The detail is why they do it and I think I have the answer. As I say in the title what Netflix is looking for is to found a franchise, in fact the film implies that it will have a second part, so they do not bother to explain several things in this first installment, they want everything to be relatively open to, I imagine, give more information and depth that this film lacked. This is not a bad thing, but sometimes it works, sometimes not.

In terms of effects, most of them are digitally produced, in some cases it is too noticeable, but not to the point of disturbing the eye. There are a couple of scenes that made me frown, Stone in the parachute or in the hot air balloon for example, but hey, it's a Netflix production, we know how they are. Also say that not everything is bad, I liked the chases through the cities, the fight scenes and melee, exchanges of gunfire, etc.. In the end I feel there is a kind of balance between the two that makes them complement each other, not everything is good but not everything is terrifying either.

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As everything is told as half told, the plot for me is short, it falls by the wayside and loses strength as we don't know more than we would like. To this we must add that the characters are totally inconsequential, there is no connection with any of them, not even with the cause of the organization itself, with nothing, everything is very empty. The essence of a good villain is to produce some feeling of anger or discomfort at a certain point in the film, that his performance or the reason why he acts so transcends the screen; well, in this case none of that happens, the "bad guy of the movie" for me is null. And like him all the secondary characters, unfortunately.

I had a hard time seeing Gal Gadot as a spy even though she moves well, all the action and fight scenes are well developed, she looks loose and agile but there was something that did not convince me. Talking about the acting itself, the performance, is useless because it is not a movie to measure that. At the end of the day I like Gal Gadot, she does what she needs to do to keep the film afloat but that's as far as it goes. Like I said, there's nothing else of note. Everyone else is very flat and expendable, you forget about them within five minutes of seeing them on screen. In fact, it tries to create some sentimental connections but for me they are not effective, I saw them forced.

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6/10 and maybe I'm being a bit generous. The movie works if you want to pass the time, it has action, espionage, intrigue, the necessary for you to spend the little more than two hours that the film lasts sitting with some popcorn. But don't expect anything extraordinary, you're not going to get it. You already know it's on Netflix and here's the trailer.

Well my people that's all for today, I hope you liked it.
¡A hug to everyone, see you next time!