G20 (Amazon Prime 2025)
We're starting to worry for our own cognitive health if we sit through one more blatantly A.I. generated Zero Stars movie.
Holy Hell.....first the Ice Cube "War of the Worlds" debacle, and now this misbegotten collection of tired tropes masquerading as a movie.
One more like this and we'll descend to Trumpian level of brain drain......(we'll end up on roof, searching for our lost sanity.)
Sorry, but in no way do we believe that four credited writers created this. Actual human beings? Nah......this film stinks of A.I. from top to bottom, combining algorithms gleaned from "Air Force One", "White House Down", "Olympus Has Fallen" and dozens upon dozens of films copied off of "Die Hard".
So once again, we have a U.S. President (Viola Davis) besieged by a small army of battle hardened mercenaries turned terrorists. The head scumbag (Antony Starr) supposedly espouses a higher purpose, but we know he's just another greedy bastard with his eye on billions in crypto currency.
Head Scumbag and his not-so-merry band invade the G20 summit at a South African hotel. After killing off the massive array of security forces, they plan to force the POTUS and the other participants to publicly renounce POTUS's big economic do-over. Scumbag and crew will accomplish this by using A.I. to twist the random words they force the G20ers to record under gunpoint. And thereby watch the world's economy come tumbling down.
No doubt this is the same A.I. that wrote the script, because (as we knew while rolling our eyes) all of the following things happen right on schedule.
#1. Our plucky POTUS, an ex-military badass ass-kicker herself, escapes the main center of captivity, followed along by her dedicated secret service guy and a random collection of G20 members.
#2. Also wandering around the hotel are the First Gentleman (Anthony Anderson) and First Kids (Marsai Martin, Christopher Farrar), all of whom will be instrumental in helping POTUS put the whammy on Scumbag and his gorillas.......
#3. Because this is a simply inevitable part of EVERY Potus-In-Peril movie, we do NOT consider this a spoiler.......Surprise, surprise, surprise: Turns out the Scumbag had the help of traitorous members within POTUS's inner circle. Jump back, Jack! Who didn't see that coming? Uh......nobody.
#4. Then comes the real "Oh Christ Almighty, gimme a f***in' break!" stuff. Viola Davis going mano-e-mano with hulking, heavily armed goons Rebellious smartass First Daughter using her electronics/computer mad skills to confound Scumbag.....and finally the way-over-the-top final duel between POTUS and Scumbag....(which the A.I. borrowed from Sylvester Stallone's "Cliffhanger")
Now we hope you can see why we don't think for a minute that flesh-and-blood real people wrote this script......
Our recommendation follows the same one we wrote for "The War of the Worlds". Load up on booze and popcorn then do your own 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' insults while watching it. Be merciless in your commentary.
Otherwise, pretend it doesn't exist and instead watch or re-watch Harrison Ford's "Air Force One", the very best of this peculiar 'Die Hard' sub-genre.
Zero stars (0).
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