It was only last month that we saw Tom Cruise battle an artificial intelligence villain called The Entity in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. And it hasn’t been a few months since we saw Priyanka Chopra and Richard Madden operate in Citadel, a spy agency that transcends geopolitical borders.

On the surface, Heart of Stone may seem like an illegitimate child of the two spy thrillers. But if one digs deeper, it shows that the playbook of the saturated genre isn’t set in Stone and that it could also have a beating Heart at its center.