The latest Netflix action spy thriller, "Heart of Stone" is another bland serving of Europudding — films made with a large, international cast, set in multiple countries. (Greg Rucka who co-wrote "The Old Guard," a prime example of the genre, also co-wrote this film.)
Director Tom Harper's flick opens promisingly with a 20-minute pre-credit sequence in which MI6 agent Rachel Stone (Gal Gadot), and her colleagues Parker (Jamie Dornan), Yang (Jing Lusi) and Bailey (Paul Ready) try to capture Mulvaney (Enzo Cilenti), an arms dealer at a casino perched high in the Italian Alps. Rachel, who is not a field agent, manages to leave the van so she can hack Mulvaney's device and allow Parker and Yang access into a room where people are wagering on body counts during a live wartime operation. It is all moderately engrossing until things go sideways. Parker, thankfully, is able to capture Mulvaney, but as Yang and Bailey give chase, Rachel stays behind.
