G20 Review: In this Prime Video action thriller film, U.S. President Danielle Sutton faces the challenge of a lifetime when the G20 Summit comes under terrorist attack and she must defend her family, the foreign dignitaries and possibly the rest of the world from harm’s way.
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G20 Movie Director
Patricia Riggen
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G20 Prime Video Movie Screenplay By
Caitlin Parrish, Erica Weiss, Logan Miller, Noah Miller
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G20 Story By
Logan Miller, Noah Miller
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G20 2025 Cast
Viola Davis, Anthony Anderson, Marsai Martin, Ramón Rodríguez, Antony Starr, Douglas Hodge, Elizabeth Marvel, Sabrina Impacciatore, Clark Gregg
The film has a runtime of 108 minutes.
G20 Review
In the Prime Video action-thriller film G20, Viola Davis is a super soldier who will fight against everything and everyone in her path to save her family and, well, the world. This is your standard fare when it comes to action thrillers about U.S. presidents being caught by dangerous criminals and coming out unscathed on the other side.
The film is a forgettable and cliché watch, one that has nothing new or innovative to offer. The thrills are few and far between, if at all, because you know what’s going to happen before you hit play. The moment the film starts, it checks all the boxes of the standard action-thriller that shoots and shoots some more to keep us invested. And you know what? That’s great — G20 might have nothing truly going for it, but its performances make it a fun watch for its short runtime.
The story is clearly nothing to write home about, and thus the film completely rests on Viola Davis’s (very) strong shoulders. It’s fantastic to watch her come up with innovative ideas and perform intense sequences with air air of confidence that only Davis can muster. In a film that has nothing constructive or interesting to offer, she exudes a strength that makes you take notice of her and everything around her and makes you root for her throughout. Her character doesn’t have anything interesting to write about, but her performance is enough for us to take notice.
Everyone else in the film is as good as overlooked because that’s what the writers have done well. One-dimensional and repetitive, none of them are interesting, nor do they have personalities. Antony Starr plays Rutledge, and although he was one of the best parts of fan-favourite The Boys, he’s your run-of-the-mill bad guy with money on his mind. We don’t know him at all, and neither are we meant to, I guess. He’s a bad guy who looks threatening… and that’s about it. We also have Serena Sutton, who is the generic tech whiz. Even she’s so cliched that it hurts to watch.
Final Thoughts
Characters drop stupid expositions left, right and centre in G20 and the bland storyline and people bring nothing memorable to the table. However, it’s Viola Davis who makes this film worth watching and makes us root for her despite several flaws in the storyline.
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