Have the news dropped you? Need a policy break? Do you want to forget your country’s problems? If drug addiction is not your thing, fortunately, the Amazon Prime video dropped a new film Thursday called Thursday G20. It takes place in a far-fetched fantastic world where a black woman has been elected president, she is a figure in principle and heroic, and the United States still care about her allies and are respected on the world scene. I know, it’s a jump! But if you can suspend your disbelief, you may be able to waste more than 90 minutes of your time watching this absurd popcorn thriller as I did!
Here, on planet B, President Danielle Sutton is played by Viola Davis, who would like you temporarily that she is a winner of Egot and rather focuses on the fact that she clearly trained to beat the donkeys of a pile of bad guys. But Sutton is not only any President: She is also a mom! And it is not only any Mom: She is also a war hero! And she has an ambitious plan to end world hunger (using digital currency, in one way or another?) That she needs to convince other leaders to delay. So let’s go – you guessed it – the G20 summit in Cape Town, South Africa, for its first major international event. “But you can’t intimidate them!” She said by her secretary to the Treasury, who warns her to play well with her colleagues heads of state. (An American president making foreign aid a leading priority and based on the art of diplomacy, as opposed to strong armaments? were The writers smoke?! A small detail that seems to be torn from our reality, however: Sutton has a penchant for the framing of Time magazine covers around itself.) But when an army of dark villains explodes the summit – completely literally – and takes everyone hostage, it is up to Sutton to save the day.
Of course, there is a precedent for this specific film sub-genre where the American president is forced to become a Badass action hero. After Harrison Ford kicked the neo-Soviet villains of his plane Air Force One (1997), Jamie Foxx helped save the day when the mercenaries of the Rureu government took more than 1,600 Pennsylvania avenue en White House (2013). The same year, Aaron Eckhart played a president fighting against North Korean fighters attacking the White House Olympus felland returned to this role three years later in London fell When he had the misfortune to be taken hostage again, this time by Islamist terrorists. Morgan Freeman then played his successor in the last part of the trilogy, Angel fell (2019), in which he was attacked by – Hell, does that even matter at this stage? – Private military entrepreneurs or something.
Listen, it may be just because I am an Australian who recently returned to the United States after a trip home to visit the family, during which I was asked for no less than 10 billions of times what happens in this country, but I am not sure that these films are what they were in the past. While G20 was undoubtedly intended to follow the mold of the stimulation of patriotism through punches, he has the misfortune to be released in a world where America arose as a world bad – where even the Literal Prime Minister of Canada declared that “the old relationship that we had with the United States … is over”. To publish a film at the moment which depicts the president as the leader of the free world (whatever this meant) does not only feel ignorant, it seems downright inappropriate. It certainly doesn’t help that G20The script is so fragile that it makes you realize how thin this illusion has always been.
Oh yes. The script. I mean, I guess there was one. This certainly does not help that the motivations of the bad guys are never really clearly heard beyond a mixture of claims on the powerful nations which steal the poor (while being crazy that the United States offers foreign aid?!), Avenging the “big lie” which was elected Sutton (subtle, huh?), Tending to be enriching the war in Iraq and Australia (?) In the war in Iraq. Do the bad guys have an escape plan? Unclear! But don’t worry too much, because it is the kind of film where not once, but twice, a villain returns from the dead because our hero forgets to give them the old double couple. The most realistic thing with G20 is the main Australian villain (Antony Starr of Boys) is with racist casualness towards Asians. (You see? I can also do swings in my country of origin. Please do not cancel my green card.)
In no particular order, please take advantage of this random list of incredible details of the film:
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At one point, a character is caught in a prison and on the prison wall, there is a poster that reads “crime”.
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Davis and his favorite secret service agent, Manny Ruiz (Ramón Rodríguez), relax by fighting each other through the martial arts in the Rose garden of the White House.
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The first line that we see a total character on the screen is the incredible piece of dialogue, “Place the cryptographic wallet under the knee!” A few moments later, another character says: “You need this bitcoin to make your plan work!”
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When she arrives for the summit, Davis – who, I must remind you, plays the US President– Happyly by the hotel staff that she will have to wear a bracelet to act like her key, as if she was staying in an all-inclusive complex in Cancún and could want to beep in the games room.
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Another line of poetry which is sort of delivered sober with an impassive face: “In a world where disinformation is more powerful than disinformation, it will seem very overwhelming!”
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In the final sequence, a passerby films the action on Instagram Live, and this is what the American vice-president and his team are looking in the situation room.
Listen, I like Viola Davis. Everyone loves Viola Davis. I would watch her read a telephone directory if those that existed. But G20 is a poorly embarrassing reading of the moment. It is certainly not a good sign for your film when it is the villain in chief who pronounces the line that sounds most faithful to the ears in the real world: “You are not a hero. I see you for what you are. You are a false. You are a fraud. You are a false president.”
It could be easy to consider G20 Like nothing more than what he claims to be: a fantasy of well-being and full of action intended for the liberals who want to feel proud of their country and their president again. But this is being served up by a company that has reportedly paid an astonishing $ 40 million for a vanity-project documentary about Our Current First Lady (after Donating Another $ 1 million to Her Husband’s inauguration Fund) in a naked attempt to curry favor with an administration that is Everthing it can to alienate and punish longtime Friends and allies whose citizens have died While Fighting in American Wars While Also Ripping Aid Money Away from the Developing World in Moves that will cause millions of people die every year. In this context, G20 Isn’t that just a bait offensive.
