Netflix summer comes alive with action Heart from Stone, director’s action film Tom Harperand written Greg Hand and Allison Schroederstarring Gal Gadot an intelligence agent working for a powerful international peacekeeping organization. In the cast we also find Jamie Dornan, Sophie Okonedo, Jing Lusi, Paul Ready, Matthias Schweighöfer, B. D. Wong AND Alia Bhatt.
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FACT
Rachel Stone (Gal Gadot), an expert in technology and digital surveillance, looks like a bumbling tech geek, a classic rookie recruited by the British intelligence services as part of an elite unit led by Agent Parker (Jamie Dornan). In reality, Stone is working undercover for the Charter, a secret peacekeeping organization unknown to other spies and using futuristic technology to neutralize global threats. When mysterious hacker Keya Dhawan (Alia Bhatt) breaks what should have been a routine mission, Rachel’s two personalities collide and she must fight to defend her cover, protecting the Charter from an attack that could destroy the entire organization.
OPINION
With the arrival of James Gunn and Peter Safran under DC Studios, Gal Gadot’s cinematic fate as an Amazon princess didn’t seem particularly rosy, but for Wonder Wuperhaps, having reached the end of the race, the kind Israeli actress immediately found a more than worthy alternative. Her Rachel Stone is actually the feminine answer to contemporary spy stories, starring various Ethan Hunt and Jason Bourne. The plot is full of twists, Gal Gadot is excellent as a super secret agent, and the Charter and its technologies a clear metaphor for the risks associated with the misuse of artificial intelligence.
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