From “The Woman King” to the president of Madame, the growing list of Viola Davis of Roles of Ferocious Commander -in -Chief reveals a star who takes the words “the main lady” literally, no matter what the public skepticism can show. The Internet seems to have rolled his collective eyes at the idea of Davis in the window of the action of the 90s “G20”, but there is no actor on Earth who could play an American president worthy of SMD without a degree of flame back … since there is no president in American history. (Provide your own tariff joke here.)
Clearly reflecting the other From the candidate in the most recent elections, Davis does an excellent job to embody Girlboss Danielle Sutton, a war hero whose military formation and instincts of protection against the Petit-Lit make her an ideal flower for the Ruthless Rutledge (Antony Starr) … and whoever may want to compare it. Rutledge has a plan to transform $ 70 million into crypto into several hundred times by diverting the CAPE Town Confab and “exposing” corruption in the best currencies in the world – a plan that is based on the forcing of all the world leaders present to recite it to the camera.
But Sutton is ingenious enough to sneak, with his best bodyguard Manny (Ramón Rodríguez), the British Prime Minister (Douglas Hodge), the South Korean first lady (Meewha Alana Lee) and the female head of the IMF (Sabrina Impacciatore). It is these five – the more the first gentleman Derek Sutton (an unusually serious Anthony Anderson) and their adolescents, Serena (Marsai Martin) and Demetrius (Christopher Farrar) – to thwart and exceed dozens of types of strong mercenaries.
According to the opening action scene, which takes place in Budapest, the public has reasons to fear that filmmaker Patricia Riggen will not be up to par. She blocks and draws just like mediocre television, with the kind of phony lighting and installing parodied blows by “Team America: World Police”. The action does not naturally come to the director “under the same moon”, although the script poses an even greater problem in “G20”, a film whose short title manages to reflect both its high concept and its level of shocking intelligence.
Almost all of the dialogue is issued in sentence fragments, maxing about six words per line (some are as short as a). It took four writers to break this mission, and the whole always looks like a “SNL” parody of itself. When a character complains of running around the compound of the G20 in high heels, Sutton explains that she “opposed her veto at this idea” and shows her bright red racing shoes, hidden under (but matching) her long silk dress.
As the action film costumes go, it is the most versatile dress since the little black dress by Jamie Lee Curtis in “True Lies”. If only this film was half as funny or explosive. The script is clearly modeled on films like “Air Force One” and “White House Down”, up to the photo of the trailer for Davis which hangs against a helicopter – except that this president does not protect his own life. While its Veep (Clark Gregg) follows horror from afar, Sutton has all the American allies according to her … and her American seems to be her greatest asset.
In a sense, this patriotic and pro-military fantasy seems to target those who are the least likely to support a candidate like Sutton-the crowd of Gung-Ho for the right who once kissed stars such as Stallone and Schwarzenegger. Although almost half of the film has elapsed before the president picks up a weapon, there is no going back once she is armed. Here, Sutton seems to take the advice of Teddy Roosevelt, “talk gently and wear a big stick”, while she was machine -gunning her way through the corridors.
We should credit Davis for having learned to handle such equipment, because it stands out just as convincing as one of the expenses: drop a half-dozen minions in rapid succession while it pivots in the dark. The film does not need to be realistic or even at a plausible distance, because it stupid in a genre already Braindead. However, it would have been good if the dialogue was a little more impactful (“Go down my plane!”). Displayed to criticism on the big screen but produced for the video premium, the film is not mixed for anything better than television, where cheap effects (like CG fire ball which returns presidential limousine) are to be expected.
The action heats up during the last half hour, while Rutledge approaches the first family. It looks like an error to have involved Sutton’s daughter as much as “G20”, reducing Serena’s Terena’s attempts to hack the system – which inevitably introduces a cheap degree of endangerment of children (the ingredient that has transformed the link into baby -sitter into “no time to die”) in parallel with a few “ancient houses”. Riggen surely considered that the public needed a reason to worry about the character of Sutton, when it is perfectly clear that Davis can do it alone.
