G20

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 (mostly B rated tech thriller and tinfoil hat taking points) and mixed character motivations but somehow fails to cohere into a solid whole.

Really disappointing as I really like a lot of the cast members and none of them are phoning it in.

Trying to find another 50 chars so I'd best point out it's MGM marque but it does feel like a amazon direct to streaming effort.

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.

G20 convention, where President-Viola spearheads an anti-famine project for funding.. farmers(?) from poor countries using cryptocurrency. It goes terribly wrong, with important hostages and the world's economics threatened for the duration of the film.

Personally, I feel this action thriller (with a light political theme) fails to hook the viewer from the start with an uninteresting, rushed and bare-boned subplot about family issues that adds little emotional weight. Slow pacing, flat action, a weak villain and more.

The cast is decent and does what they can with the material. With a Viola Davis playing a Military-President that one-shots surrounding enemies while spinning 360°, and the pair of "Wakandan" soldiers (this movie, not me) coming out on top. And Antony Starr's character (the main reason I tuned in) feels underwritten and ultimately forgettable.

That disappointment kind of sums up the whole thing. The plot, character development, and resolution all feel like they're just background noise for military action set pieces. It's not over-the-top, but there's little tension or intrigue, and not enough fun to recommend.

I definitely wasn't expecting this to be an award winning movie - silly escapism was all it had to pull off, but "G20" was so worn, tired, and full of holes it's almost transparent - especially the groan worthy ending!! I won't torture by listing the specific cinematic offenses, and there are many, but to call this a movie is to slander the art form. Take every troupe you've ever watched about a hostage situation involving a US president and wrap it with dialogue so straight, so predictable, that it's irrelevant.

Please, please, don't waste a second of your precious life watching this dreck!! Go spend time with your family, go read a book, call a friend, or just take a nap instead.

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.