Viola Davis crushes it in G20, Seven Veils a showcase for Amanda Seyfried

When the G20 summit in South Africa is hijacked by terrorists, United States President Danielle Sutton (Viola Davis), their main target, must evade capture and defend her family and the international dignitaries.

- Whang Yee Ling

G20 (NC16) 108 minutes, premieres on Prime Video on April 10 ☆☆☆

The story:

Hollywood actress Davis is a member of the elite EGOT club, winner of an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and two Tonys.

Not easily content, the 59-year-old has added Krav Maga to her acting arsenal for the entertaining thriller G20. This Madam President is an Iraq War veteran. She will leverage her military expertise to navigate the crisis as the attackers prepare to destabilise the global economy via cryptocurrency and deepfake.

The middle-aged black lady boss actioner by director Patricia Riggen (The 33, 2015) is so on the nose in its currency, crossing off, as it does, diversity, disinformation, US foreign intervention and the Afro-centric blockbusters Black Panther (2018) and The Woman King (2022) - the latter also starring Davis - it can only be tongue-in-cheek. How else to explain a daft line like "We will save the people in the kitchen"?