{"id":28868,"date":"2023-08-14T11:38:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T10:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28868"},"modified":"2023-08-14T11:38:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T10:38:30","slug":"a-review-of-the-new-action-movie-heart-of-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28868","title":{"rendered":"A review of the new action movie &#8220;Heart Of Stone&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\nSadly, everything about this Netflix movie is contrived, starting with the title. Heart is the name of a super-powerful system of artificial intelligence, just like The Entity in the &#8220;Dead Reckoning&#8221; segment of the &#8220;Mission: Impossible&#8221; franchise. Stone is the surname of the special agent at the heart of the plot (see what I did there?. We know that Rachel does not have a heart of stone because she is kind to the cat.\n<p>\nThe money men have obviously influenced the international casting. So Israeli Gal Godot is the eponymous spy and, while she was pretty as &#8220;Wonder Woman&#8221; and we know that she&#8217;s an expert in various martial arts, she is not a very good actor. The other plucky female role is filled by Alia Bhatt who is now a big star in the Indian film market. For female viewers, we have Jamie Dornan from &#8220;Fifty Shades Of Grey&#8221;. Don&#8217;t forget the wider Asian market: Jing Lusi and B D Wong are there. The one star actor in the cast is Glenn Close who is given very little to do.\n<p>\nFrom the very beginning, there are some lively action sequences, although they are very derivative, and there is some fine location shooting in Portugal, Morocco and Iceland. The main problem &#8211; as usual with action movies &#8211; is the script. The plotting is farcical and the dialogue is weak. But, as a TV movie, it fills an evening.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, everything about this Netflix movie is contrived, starting with the title. Heart is the name of a super-powerful system of artificial intelligence, just like The Entity in the &#8220;Dead Reckoning&#8221; segment of the &#8220;Mission: Impossible&#8221; franchise. Stone is the surname of the special agent at the heart of the plot (see what I did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28869,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28868\/revisions\/28869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}