10 Recent Movies That Were HUGE Ripoffs
9. Heart Of Stone
Netflix's spy actioner Heart of Stone has been soundly derided as "Mission: Impossible at home," and it's tough to argue with that assessment.
The Gal Gadot-led yarn is an ensemble globetrotting espionage flick in which an intelligence operative (Gadot) races to prevent an AI-powered quantum computer from falling into the wrong hands.
Beyond Heart of Stone taking its cues from the Mission: Impossible franchise's basic structure in a very broad sense, this is actually shockingly similar to the overarching narrative of the series' most recent entry, Dead Reckoning, which sees Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and co. trying to corral a dangerous AI.
The big difference? Heart of Stone doesn't have the witty writing, electric cast chemistry, creative action, or technical meticulousness of the more recent Mission: Impossibles, and so it can't help but feel like a not-so-cheap but certainly deathly pale imitation.
Though Netflix dumped $150 million into this thing with the clear hope of spinning it into a franchise, given how it came and went in the span of about a week, it's safe to say that Heart of Stone hasn't got the cultural cachet necessary to become even a competent me-too Mission: Impossible cosplay.