The film, written by Greg Rucka and Allison Schroeder, apes the M:I series’s geographical sweep and eye-popping stunt work, though a lot of the physical stuff seems heavily aided by computer graphics. If any of these intended franchise starters has a real chance of enduring success, maybe it’s this one. Directed by Tom Harper-the man behind both music drama Wild Rose and The Aeronauts, the ballooning documentary about the worst day of Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones’s life- Heart of Stone has a pep in its step, a sureness of tone and purpose that already puts it ahead of much of its brethren. Let’s see what happens with Heart of Stone (August 11), a livelier-than-the-Netflix-norm action caper that is, rather shamelessly, attempting a Mission: Impossible. ( The Gray Man is forging ahead anyway, though I’d presume the returns will be diminishing.) But the strategy didn’t pan out as well for Bright, or The Gray Man, or any number of other projects that were meant to enthuse audiences about a potential series. Partly because, well, those movies weren’t very good. The crunch and grind of Extraction has worked out pretty well, and another Old Guard film is in the offing. Netflix has long been on the hunt for action franchises.
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