Netflix can always be relied upon to deliver uninspiring and formulaic action blockbusters, so on that note by taking a pasting from critics, with the streaming service’s latest blockbuster holding a typically downbeat Rotten Tomatoes score of just 32 percent.
However, it’s over on IMDb where things get a lot more interesting and just a little bit disheartening, with Tom Harper’s globetrotting epic currently the fifth lowest-rated title bearing that exact moniker. With a current rating of just 5.2, Gal Gadot’s ass-kicking operative is lagging well behind the 8.1 of the 2009 documentary about an inner city school, as well as a German TV movie from 1995 about an orphan who befriends an elderly woman.
A 1950 adaptation of the fairy tale Das kalte Herz is ranked higher, too, thanks to its 7.3 ranking on IMDb, and we can’t forget the 2016 fantasy drama with a 6.1, either. In fact, 2023’s vintage is only barely ahead of Heart of Stone #6, a 2001 erotic thriller following a woman who has an affair with a married man that soon devolves into a string of murders.
You get the suspicion that Netflix may not want to market its latest expensive investment as “officially the fifth-best Heart of Stone in cinematic history,” but based on nothing but the numbers, it’s an indisputable fact, even if it’s difficult to imagine any of the others making a resurgence based on a vested interest in nothing but the nomenclature.
Published: Aug 11, 2023 11:45 am