When the heads of government of the world's most important industrial and thresholding and thresholding come together for the discussion of important topics, the elaborately prepared meeting is always accompanied by sometimes violent protests. The skirmishes between the left (and sometimes maroding) and hundreds of the police, in which entire streets of the Hamburg Schanzenviertel were devastated in July 2017 in the course of the G20 summit, have probably remembered many. In contrast, there are hardly any noteworthy media reports on riots around the (almost unsuccessful) meetings by the finance miners, which took place in February 2025 in the South African Cape Town.
Nevertheless, the action thriller produced exclusively for Amazon Prime Video was “G20“Rotated in South Africa from January to March 2024-and proves to be astonishing progressive and modern: director Patricia Riggen (“ 69 days of hope ”) addresses Deepfakes through artificial intelligence, economic problems on the African continent and offers a pragmatic way with Oscar Prize winner Viola Davis) US President, who shows old white and ignorant politicians, a lot of stinking finger. Of course, all of this is applied a bit thick and not free of weaknesses. But: It is a good mood to watch the exceptional actress to face the ass!
Nobody still suspects what badass the US President (viola Davis) is really …
Together with her husband Derek (Anthony Anderson), her daughter Serena (Marsai Martin) and her son Demetrius (Christopher Farrar), US President Danielle Sutton travels to the G20 summit in a strictly secured hotel in Cape Town. Here she wants to promote support in the introduction of a digital currency that is intended to secure more economic participation to the population of the African continent and stop hunger. A private security service is hired as additional protection for the US delegation, but this proves to be a fatal mistake:
Under the direction of the unscrupulous terrorist Rutledge (Antony Starr), the heads of state and government present are taken hostage. Only a small group around Sutton, the secret service agent Manny Ruiz (Ramón Rodríguez) and the British Prime Minister Oliver Everett (Douglas Hodge) succeeds. While Rutledge is forcing the other heads of government to ruin their own financial systems with Deepfake videos, the campaign-proof Sutton puts on the “die slowly”-like counter strike …
This somehow seems familiar to us
A US President as hostage of terrorists? This film super is truly not new now. The explosive action blockbusters “White House Down” and “Olympus Has fall” appeared in the cinemas within just a few months. Similar ingredients also brings “G20”: 20 years ago, Sutton, as a soldier in the Gulf War Use, made it politically effective on the cover of the time magazine-and to this day she connects a deep friendship with her former comrade and now with the Secret Service with which she regularly flattened around martial art training.
Nevertheless, there is more of an exception, while the noticeably thin, but quite exciting and functional plot is shining from an interchangeable action scene to the next. Because no matter whether Sutton, Ruiz and Entourage in the cabin of an elevator or in the Hotel kitchen Rutledges Schergen: With the rather simple choreographed hand -made and shooting, which are quite bloody for it, the sometimes hectic camera work by Checco Varese (“It Chapter 2”) tends to be nervous, in which the overview is sometimes lost. The final also suffers from this, in which the poorest Green screen recordings with the visibly artificial surroundings of the hotel complex are particularly clearly exhibited.
This US President not only Labert, she also knows how to assert herself in dangerous situations!
For this, the Viola Davis, also involved as a producer, is recommended after her strong, martial appearance in “The Woman King” again as a strong action actress, who spends a good figure at fights and weapons. In addition, she gives her surprisingly complex figure a depth that the rest of the loose act could certainly not be expected: Because her tough US president is not an unscrupulous one-woman army, but a vulnerable and attackable, empathetic and self-confident care who, after thinking, on military strategies her red evening dress for a stainy tart Exchange. With so much female empowerment, she pees the patriarchy in the form of the arrogant-blown British Prime Minister, who turns out to be a wine-minded zero (Boris Johnson greets).
Conclusion: After “The Woman King”, Viola Davis once again proves that action films and strong female characters fit together excellently. “G20” is primarily a rock-solid action thriller due to its all-dominant presence, which, however, lacks the last finishing touches in the stunt choreographies and the green screen effects.