Heart of Stone is very much the Gal Gadot Show. There are likely to be more adventures ahead for Rachel Stone, but one wonders whether Bhatt will build on this very respectable international debut.

| Jun 24, 2024

Netflix's new franchise-starter, starring Gal Gadot and Alia Bhatt desperately needed some meat.

| Oct 25, 2023

The major problem here is the lack of emotional development for Rachel's character, which takes away the possibility of Gadot becoming a durable action heroine. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 5, 2023

This is a perfectly solid action movie, even if it offers nothing we haven't seen a million times before.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 3, 2023

Gadot proves she doesn’t need Wonder Woman to kick butt, but the script is too complicated for its own good. Viewers are used to MI6 secret agents, but when there are super secret agents beneath that, it’s hard to keep track of who’s double-crossing who.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 22, 2023

On the surface, Heart of Stone may come across as just another spy thriller from the saturated genre. But not if one peeks into its heart...

| Sep 14, 2023

While some action sequences feel new and exciting, the rest of—well— everything else, feels like there was no effort put into them.

| Sep 14, 2023

The film's international cast is a big part of its appeal and neatly fits with the storyline's idea of a non-nation-based spy outfit.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2023

The problem lies in originality, the lack thereof.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 5, 2023

Needed another round with the script to polish up its rougher edges and questionable plot choices, but at least the action scenes make it an average enough weekend time killer.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 3, 2023

Will surely be in play for one of the worst films of the year.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 2, 2023

Heart of Stone, in this instance, is just a disposable product of a highly proposed idea. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 31, 2023

The brilliantly-shot action set pieces aside, ‘Heart of Stone’ will disappear into the abyss as yet another forgettable high-budget espionage thriller that splurges on the genre’s opulence.

| Aug 25, 2023

There’s neither a palpable physicality to the set-pieces nor a genuine hum to the storytelling.

| Aug 25, 2023

Harper makes a generic action picture, though a very fun one. Heart of Stone is the kind of movie that audiences watch, have a great time, and forget five minutes after the credits roll.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2023

Ms. Gadot is magnetic... and is spinning her wheels in the snow of the Alps, the dust of the African desert and the lava sands of Iceland in an effort to place the cornerstone, so to speak, in the construction of yet another kinetic movie series.

| Aug 22, 2023

Tom Harper's film could only be more of a Mission Impossible rip-off if it were called Mission Unbelievable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 22, 2023

Heart of Stone thus serves a stiff offering of spies and twists who instead of suspense, deal in pure automation.

| Aug 21, 2023

Like far too many Netflix original films, "Heart of Stone" is a star studded, big budget, slickly produced mediocre film.

| Original Score: C | Aug 18, 2023

The slam-bang stuff in this picture is too tediously routine.

| Aug 18, 2023