Movie · 2025 · Action, Mystery, Drama · 1h 48m · R · English
Curator score: 0.7/10 (71.7K ratings)
Never underestimate a patriot.
Overview
After the G20 Summit is overtaken by terrorists, President Danielle Sutton must bring all her statecraft and military experience to defend her family and her fellow leaders.
Viola Davis, Anthony Anderson, Marsai Martin, Ramón Rodríguez, Antony Starr, Douglas Hodge, Elizabeth Marvel, Sabrina Impacciatore, Clark Gregg, Christopher Farrar, John Hoogenakker, Ali Suliman, Angela Sarafyan, MeeWha Alana Lee, Conrad Kemp, Joseph Steven Yang, Emmanuel Castis, David James, Julius Tennon, Theo Bongani Ndyalvane
Where to watch
Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Curator Review
Verdict
A glossy, high-concept siege thriller with a strong lead performance, but the execution sounds clumsy, overstuffed, and politically tone-deaf enough to sink the fun. The premise promises Air Force One-style escapism, yet the reviews point to cheap dialogue, muddled satire, and a villain concept that turns the movie into an accidental joke more often than a tense ride.
Best for
Viewers who enjoy ridiculous, high-energy presidential action movies
Fans of Viola Davis who can tolerate a messy script
People in the mood for a so-bad-it’s-kind-of-fascinating watch
Skip if
You want tight action choreography and polished suspense
You’re sensitive to heavy-handed political messaging
You prefer grounded thrillers over cartoonish techno-terror plots
Overview
G20 aims for the familiar comfort of a presidential siege thriller, but it seems to arrive with more noise than control. The setup is instantly legible and the lead role is tailor-made for a performer like Viola Davis, yet the surrounding material sounds chaotic: overcooked dialogue, awkward tonal shifts, and a villain concept that feels ripped from a very online nightmare rather than a coherent screenplay.
Worth noting
What might have worked as pulpy escapism instead reads like a movie trying to be urgent, topical, and empowering all at once, without fully committing to any of those modes. The result, by most accounts, is less a clean action ride than a scattershot collage of current anxieties, patriotic spectacle, and accidental comedy.
Bottom line
There is still some curiosity value here if you like watching prestige actors drop into absurd genre material and somehow keep it afloat. But as a thriller, it sounds underpowered; as satire, too blunt; and as political fantasy, too messy to land the fantasy part.
Top Letterboxd reviews
εὐγενής (2.5★) · 1335 likes
Where is Gerard Butler? It's his job
john (2.5★) · 1289 likes
"Holy shit! You're from Wakanda!" might not even be in the top three most insane lines from this movie.
Sam🦧 (1.5★) · 1205 likes
Antony Starr promotes Bitcoin and creates online chaos with AI.
Yeah this is definitely a 2025 film.
olsenvision (3★) · 670 likes
We are now in the era of Hollywood movies clearly written when everyone thought Kamala was gonna be the next president
Jenny · 635 likes
Ok but the way this would have hit during a Kamala presidency
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A more muscular, straightforward White House siege movie that delivers the same kind of power-vs-terror premise with sharper genre focus.
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