Free on Prime Video, “G20” is a suspenseful political thriller that’s quite enjoyable. President Danielle Sutton (Viola Davis) is heading to the G20 Summit in Cape Town, South Africa, to try to convince the other 19 of the world’s highest GNP economies to “buy” into her “Together Act.” Sutton’s successful political campaign was partly based on her having been a hero in the Iraq war. This plan is to ameliorate the hunger crises in Sub-Saharan Africa via developing a new a digital currency which can by-pass the numerous impossible loan qualifications, as well as banking regulations, which prevent the impoverished farmers from buying crops that they can grow to feed the people. There are other political leaders there, however, that are opposed to this plan, so she has her work cut out for her. Shortly prior to the conference, Sutton’s precocious teenage daughter, Serena (Marasai Martin), had managed to escape from her Secret Service security detail at the White House and a viral video caught her at a bar. This video was quite embarrassing to the President. Serena is very intelligent and tech-savvy. Due to security concerns, Sutton decides to bring Serena, as well as her husband and son, along to the conference.
Shortly after Sutton makes her speech, a large contingent of terrorist mercenaries break into the summit and hold all the G20 leaders captive. Their plan was brilliant, and the security forces of all the G20 countries are powerless to stop them. Furthermore, this must be an inside job, so there is a significant betrayal by some security officer(s) in the U.S.A. The terrorist leader, Edward Rutledge (Antony Starr), portraying himself as a revolutionary, wants to inform the world that Sutton’s plan is in fact a devious plot to control all the world’s citizen’s money. Rutledge forces the G20 leaders to speak in front of a camera, and then creates Deep Fake A.I. videos of them urging their citizens to withdraw their money from the banks and transfer the funds to Bitcoin. Prior to the terrorist takeover, Rutledge and his crew have obtained a super-crypto wallet which has about $70 million of Bitcoin, and they will become billionaires when the price of Bitcoin soars into the stratosphere due to panic buying. Rutledge even kills a couple of world leaders at the conference in order to coerce the others to cooperate with the videos.
Can Sutton, her devoted Secret Service body guard Manny (Ramon Rodriguez, a.k.a. Will Trent), and her tech-savvy daughter somehow escape the conference hotel, and find a way to let the large security force, which up to now has been trapped outside the perimeter, into the G20 hotel? Can she keep her husband, daughter, and son alive when numerous other people are getting shot? Sutton also needs to figure out who the traitor(s) are. The film has plenty of good action sequences and will hold your interest. It’s a notch up from the usual streamed movies that don’t make it to the theater.
P.S.: If you are interested in a terrific President’s 30-minute economic speech, then go on YouTube and check out Javier Milei’s (President of Argentina) speech to the World Economic Forum, which he delivered about a week ago. Milei has led a remarkable economic turnaround in socialist, poverty-stricken Argentina, utilizing a free-market, Austrian Economics approach, the first time in history that it has ever been tried. When Milei took office in 12/23, the poverty rate in Argentina was 57%. According to the latest statistics, the poverty rate is now 27%!
