Tom Harper directs Gal Gadot, Jamie Dornan and Alia Bhatt in this espionage actioner where a double agent must stop their mission solving AI from falling into the wrong hands.

Starts out on the wrong foot. A ski resort chase sequence where an algorithm plots out all the hero’s moves, the kinda stuff Bond just noticed and did instinctively 50 years ago. Netflix might love the idea that data can win the day but humans need their fantasy figures to at least have some sense of free will. Once it becomes a sub-Mission: Impossible Heart Of Stone fulfils it brief more than adequately. Some of the action is pretty eye catching (a sci-fi zeppelin heist, a bike chase) and Gal Gadot has undeniable star power. Peak perfection physicality that makes acting deficiencies sort of charming, much like Arnie before her. The final peril goes on way too long but this is better than its stinky reputation when looked straight on in the eye as a throwaway entertainment.

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