229 - Heart of Stone

Your Stupid Minds continues its Worst of 2023 limited series with yet another nine-figure Netflix action movie that they apparently forgot to promote. It's Heart of Stone with Gal Gadot! Rachel Stone (Gadot) is a young statuesque superhacker who's a new recruit to MI6. She's part of a team including combat expert Yang (Jing Lusi), another combat expert Parker (Jamie Dornan), and another superhacker Bailey (Paul Ready). Their mission is to kidnap some Russian guy for information, which they fail at spectacularly. But Stone isn't a normal MI6 agent. She's actually part of an even secreter organization called the Charter, which does everything based on the word of an AI supercomputer called the Heart. The Heart has the power to change the tide of human history, but they mostly use it for video game vision in the field and spewing out useless probabilities in real time. As a double agent, Stone is tasked with finding out who's trying to destroy the Heart, which for the most part she also fails at spectacularly until it's too late. Cars blow up, people jump out of airplanes, and unconvincing CGI muzzle flashes light up the screen. It's about what you'd expect from another $150 million Netflix screensaver. But is it better or worse than your average first quarter theatrical release action flick? You'll have to listen to find out!