G20

No, seriously. This movie would have been a perfect place for Frank Drebin to make an appearance. Just imagine him driving a police tank into the G20 meeting, crushing everything in his way! "G20" could have been a perfect parody, a spoof of amovie. But the tragedy... you see, the tragedy is that "G20" is not a parody. Is not a spoof. It is "action thriller film", that was made without a hint of smile. R. I. P. Mr. Leslie Nielsen, in another reality you could had a perfect cameo in this flick. R. I. P. "G20", a weird expirement born out of god-knows what. One day, hopefully, this will be remade as a comedy.

This laughable attempt at an action movie is peak leftist /progressive 'content' and is so detached from reality you'll surely be rooting for the baddies. Just leaves you wondering - who was this made for?! Probably the fabled 'modern audience' but as is proven time and time again, it never actually shows up...

Despite that, this is the latest effort to appease them and surely won't be the last. Will probably be studied in years to come as a prime example of just how deranged things got in the 2020s.

Watch it if you want a good laugh. It certainly doesn't take place in anything that even remotely resembles reality. Laughably bad.

Serena is the rebel hacker teen daughter of US President Danielle Sutton (Viola Davis). Derek Sutton (Anthony Anderson) is the first gentleman. G20 is holding a meeting in South Africa. The organizers have hired private security led by Edward Rutledge (Antony Starr). Danielle is personally protected by Secret Service Agent Manny Ruiz (Ramón Rodríguez).

This is White House Down adjacent. It has some action fun. It is unrealistic at times. It is ridiculous to take out most of the government protection with one blast. The premise is dumb but whatever. The movie does lose me when Viola Davis turns super-soldier. Aside from being a woman in her late 50's, the character is set up different from super fighting. The movie gets rather too ridiculous at the end. I like this up to a point. Too bad that it goes past that point.

G20 has some of the right elements to do its concept justice but it's undermined by its standard issue made for streaming construction and the near constant overly serious nature which prevents it from having any fun with the concept. Like most streaming originals, it borrows from far superior films and ends up being so generic that everything it's taken from them makes it feel derivative. The casting of its hero and villain saves this from being really bad.

Viola Davis is massively over qualified for this incredibly bland material which at least means she is more than capable of elevating this with her commanding screen presence and undeniable action star credentials. Anthony Starr does a good job as the main villain, relishing in his villainy and delivering several cringe worthy speeches advertising Bitcoin without completely losing the will to live in a seriously impressive feat.

Patricia Riggen's direction is pretty lifeless. The action sequences are basic and when they do add some visual flair to proceedings it feels so random, plus there's not enough of them considering the nearly 2 hour run time. It generally looks flat thanks to a colour palette that's slightly desaturated throughout which becomes kinda distracting. Some of the CGI is laughably bad but thankfully those moments are contained to small doses.

It was sort of okay until about halfway through. It's annoying having a teenager save the day.

But the worst part was when the president, for the third time, decides she can't leave someone behind. She has to save them.

When the obvious thing is she can do more for them if she can actually get out of the situation.

Then she gets into a (second) fight with a terrorist, this time because she didn't just shoot him in the back of the head when she had the chance. These guys were killing people left and right, and she tells him to "drop the weapon" then lets him close while he's dropping it, and then I'm sure somehow she gets out of it, but at that point, I gave up.