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- 2025
- R
- Prime Video
- 1 h 48 m
- 2025
- R
- Prime Video
- 1 h 48 m
SummaryWhen the G20 summit comes under siege, U.S. President Danielle Sutton (Viola Davis) becomes the number one target. After evading capture by the attackers, she must outsmart the enemy to protect her family, defend her country and safeguard world leaders.
Directed By: Patricia Riggen
Written By: Caitlin Parrish, Erica Weiss, Logan Miller, Noah Miller
- 2025
- R
- Prime Video
- 1 h 48 m
- 2025
- R
- Prime Video
- 1 h 48 m
G20
53
4.1
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SummaryWhen the G20 summit comes under siege, U.S. President Danielle Sutton (Viola Davis) becomes the number one target. After evading capture by the attackers, she must outsmart the enemy to protect her family, defend her country and safeguard world leaders.
Directed By: Patricia Riggen
Written By: Caitlin Parrish, Erica Weiss, Logan Miller, Noah Miller
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33% Positive
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60% Mixed
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7% Negative
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G20 is standard-issue improbable action that’s lifted by EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) award winner Davis, who makes everything better, and the Mexican-born Riggen’s direction.
Mostly, G20 has two major points in its favor, right out of the gate: a super-fun premise for an action film (what if money-mad mercenaries seized the 20 most powerful leaders of the world and demanded some really insane shit?) and a star both so good and so classy that it never feels as if she’s punching below her weight class.
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38% Positive
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Mixed or AverageBased on 37 User Ratings
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38% Positive
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
5% Mixed
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2 Ratings
57% Negative
21 Ratings
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Putting Black and Brown characters at the forefront of an action movie is what I liked most. This is a popcorn flick, and it's not trying to be anything else. I've seen plenty of hateful, racist, misogynistic reviews, but that's all they are: hateful, racist, and misogynistic. It's just a movie! Jesus!
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The action is serviceable enough, enjoyment based less on deftly staged choreography and more on the catharsis offered to Davis, as president and actor (she has spoken in recent press about the pleasure and freedom the role has provided).
Once the principal heroes and villains have been established and the perfunctory narrative throat-clearing is out of the way, G20 finds its groove as a solid popcorn action flick.
Part Die Hard, part wish-fulfillment saga for a post-2024 present that didn’t come to pass, it’s a fantasy of feminist and U.S. might that’s chockablock with implausibilities.
If G20 barely registers as original, its star remains commanding. Even when Davis dutifully goes through the motions as stern government official Amanda Waller in the recent DC films, she seems incapable of phoning in a role or winking to the audience.
By Tim GriersonFULL REVIEW
Before we get to its many faults, it’s worth noting G20 gets one part of its concept correct: casting Viola Davis as the President. Getting the vibes right when casting your President is the most important first step when making a film in this subgenre.
Pure dumb entertain if you’re in the mood for it! Some reviewers just giving 0s cause they think it’s “woke” is pathetic.
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G20 arrives promising international tension, explosive action and a touch of renewal to the traditional “president in danger” subgenre. With Viola Davis at the center of the plot as the President of the United States, the film is based on a thought-provoking premise: what if, in the midst of the meeting of the major global powers, the President was also an ex-military woman with past traumas and the only hope in the face of a terrorist threat? Added to this, we have Antony Starr - Homelander from The Boys - as the antagonist, which raises interest in a possible dramatic and physical duel between two actors of great presence. But that's all promise. In practice, G20 turns out to be a frustrating piece of work, driven by insecure direction, a weak script and an execution that fails in almost all its proposals.Director Patricia Riggen has limited experience in the action genre, and this is evident from the very first sequences. The film is unable to establish a convincing atmosphere for what should be a high-impact political thriller. The use of artificial intelligence as an element of technological threat is generic and lazy, and the setting, despite promising global diplomatic tension, never manages to create real immersion. The action - which should be the beating heart of the movie - is punctuated by excessive cuts, rushed editing and scenes in which stuntmen are visibly highlighted, completely breaking the sense of urgency or **** script, signed by three professionals with little experience in major productions, suffers from a lack of depth. The president's past, her emotional ties with her daughter, her team and even her security chief are treated in a shallow manner, with expository dialogues and relationships that are not given time to develop. The protagonist is constantly reminded of her military past, her strength and her resilience, but all this is more talked about than convincingly shown. When we finally get a scene of physical confrontation, it's loaded with clichés, predictability and a visual execution that delivers more embarrassment than excitement.Viola Davis, as always, delivers what she can with what she has. Her presence commands respect, her gaze communicates a lot, and her performance is by far the most solid point of the film. But even she, with all her talent, can't sustain a script that doesn't offer her enough material to shine as she deserves. There are moments when her character almost emerges as something memorable, but the hesitant direction and the limited text pull her back into lukewarm, generic **** for Antony Starr, although he retains his characteristic intensity, he can't escape the shadow of Homelander. His composition seems like a recycling of the same persona, only without the superpowers. Even though he tries to distance himself physically with a more robust beard, the similarity in mannerisms and expression makes the comparison inevitable. His villainy is superficial, his motivation almost non-existent, and the clash between him and the president never achieves the tension that the movie tries to sell.G20 sets out to be an action thriller with a strong female lead and an up-to-date approach to the geopolitical scenario. However, what we see is a project lost between the desire to be something great and the inability to execute it competently. It lacks intensity, emotion and, above all, a clear vision of what the movie wants to be. The result is a forgettable feature that relies entirely on Viola Davis' charisma not to sink completely - and even she is swimming against the tide here.
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So watched this right after work today and I must confess I'm utterly bamboozled as to how hell a movie with such a stacked cast stuffed with so many action sequences can be so boring??It's obvious it's got a decent budget as the production values are there and there's a whole heap of plot ideas and mixed character motivations, but somehow fails to cohere into a solid whole.Really disappointing.
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A terrible film. They try to please all viewers by lumping everything together. Logically, none of them falls short.And who came up with the idea of making Viola an action star? The muscle mass she's gained looks good, but she doesn't fit the role.The terrible script, the dialogue, and the poor performances of the actors quickly dismiss the film as a waste of money.
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beside the fact that trying to have a black woman elected as POTUS has thrown the world in the worst caos since herr **** election in 1933, Antony Starr was so good in The Boys to make me hate every character he plays and every movie he plays in.Just joking (maybe) . Poor story, poor dialogues, poor acting. 2 out of 10
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Production Company
- Amazon Studios
- Big Indie Pictures
- JuVee Productions
- MRC Film
- Mad Chance
Release DateApr 10, 2025
Duration1 h 48 m
RatingR
TaglineNever underestimate a patriot.