G20

In the action thriller G20, U.S. President Danielle Sutton, a former war hero, attends the G20 summit in Cape Town with her family. When terrorists, led by a vengeful mastermind, seize the summit and threaten global financial chaos using deepfake technology, Sutton evades capture and takes charge. Drawing on her military expertise, she fights to protect her loved ones, fellow world leaders, and global stability in a high-stakes battle against time and betrayal.

G20 Review

Cult classics like Soylent Green are quirky, over-the-top movies with bad writing and worse acting, but they somehow also possess that certain something that makes them enjoyable, not despite their flaws but because of them. G20 is not among these.

Instead, the Viola Davis-led disaster is a soulless slog of identity politics and flat drama, interspersed with random acts of the most mundane and unimaginative action. It offers neither fun and offbeat characters nor an over-the-top premise.

The talented Davis does her best to deliver meaningless and clichéd lines with undeserved gravitas. Ultimately failing under the weight of G20’s talentless writers– all three of them.

Helping nothing, Antony Starr goes full Kiwi. The New Zealand native, best known for playing Homelander in the Amazon Prime series The Boys, doesn’t shy away from his homespun accent, which is one of the least threatening on the planet.

With so little worthy of note (both positive and negative), I was left no choice but to create a drinking game to help G20 viewers make it through to the other side.

G20 DRINKING GAME

Sip

• There’s a fist bump.
• Racism or sexism is artificially alluded to or shoehorned into a scene.
• Someone calls Viola Davis’s character “Madam President.”

Drink

• Something or someone works in a way that absolutely couldn’t in real life. Examples: a car flips ten times, airbags don’t deploy, and everyone walks away fine.
• Viola Davis shoots someone in the head.
• Someone says something painfully cliché. Examples: “How dare you judge me,” “You don’t know what I’ve been through,” etc.
• You’re struck by the fact that it took three people to write this.

Shoot

• Viola Davis gets a hero pose.
• The special effects look digital, fake, or unfinished.

Finish your drink

• The movie tries to make a “big statement” and completely biffs it.
• The credits roll, and you feel a mix of relief, confusion, and disbelief.

WOKE ELEMENTS

A New Record

• It only takes 6 minutes for the first of several gender and or racial politics talking points/clichés to be artificially and amateurishly inserted into the dialogue: “You know I had to work twice as hard to get here.”
  • 1.5 more minutes until the next: “Of course, Prime Minister Everett won’t have your back at the G20. He’s never liked strong women.”
  • 4 more for the next: “100 years ago, neither of us could vote.” This line is extra stupid since neither of them were alive 100 years ago.
  • Etc.

Girl-Bosses Abound

• Aside from the near-flawless lady president, there are a multitude of silly female characters that are entirely out of place.
  • A 90 lb French woman picks up a 200 lb man several feet in the air by his neck via a makeshift noose.
  • Another female secret agent Huracánranas her way through men twice her size
  • The 17-year-old first daughter is a brilliant tech genius nearly on par with Tony Stark.

No Such Thing As A Good White Man

• There are no good white men in the entire film.
• The British Prime Minister is the closest thing it gives to a good white man. He starts G20 as a drunken cartoon misogynist and ends as a drooling doofus who is so impressed with Viola Davis that he’s practically a stroke victim.

Random Acts of Gayness

• Viola’s character’s personal dresser is a flamboyant gay man. He’s in the film for 30 seconds or less.