This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.Following movies like Red Notice, Extraction 2, and The Mother raking in millions of hours on the global streaming service since their respective debuts, Netflix is looking to reel in a new audience with its latest action-adventure, Heart of Stone, led by Gal Gadot and a star-studded cast, including Jamie Dornan and Alia Bhatt. Premiering this Friday, the Tom Harper-directed feature is certainly entertaining and engages the audience with knockout action sequences and strong performances. However, there are elements of Heart of Stone that feel rather familiar and periodically fall back on genre conventions.
