Heads of state on the run, the review of the film on Prime Videos

Heads of state on the runfirst video action comedy with John dinner And Idris Elbadoes not arrive in the best of historical moments. In a period in which wars, conflicts and missed resolutions to the genocides in progress rage, in which the split between nations, sometimes even internal to the same countries, resounds catastrophic and definitive, see a work arrives on the platform that seeks with a veiled goodism and a sequence of action scenes the achievement of an ideal peace of the world Surreal sounds, improbable and totally disconnected from reality.

But, after all, it is exactly what we expect from the cinema and is also what Only cinema can do. So, paradoxically, Heads of state on the run It becomes the exact opposite of what we could only consider outside the reach of any political situation in which we find ourselves enticed, imagining when it could be nice that, after only an improvised mission and some obstacles overcome together, some of the largest world powers can collaborate And being an example about what it means to support themselves, allaccuine and work in harmony, perhaps in front of a good fish and chips.

Heads of state on the runtwo leaders in comparison

To incorporate this union are therefore the actor from the world of WWE and increasingly launched in cinema – of comedy in particular – in the role of the President of the United States and the iconic face of the series Luther that, after being one of the brightest investigators in a UK flagship products, for Heads of state on the run It becomes nothing less than the prime minister. The differences are abnormal. Meanwhile, the American president has an actor background – surprises us after everything that happened in US history? Not at all – He was the protagonist of one of the most famous franchise action of recent cinematography and does nothing but promise, promise and nothing but promisein order to be able to give people even to people.

Hope that for the British counterparty represents only one more step towards disappointment, which has now become his only vision of things while he is driving the country he loves and who served as an agent as a young man, but who tries to govern in a more realistic and resolute way Compared to the sparkles and dreams of Hollywood Vacui. The goal of the two protagonists, who fell into a trap and target of an internal conspiracy, is to reach a NATO conference as soon as possible to be held in Trieste and make sure that the organization dedicated to the defense is not dismantled. To do this they will therefore have to shorten their distances But, you know, not everything is as easy as in the old films in which the American president was the protagonist.

A comedy full of action, absurdity and references to Air Force One

While the world around us goes to the roll, seeing an operation like Heads of state on the run transports the viewer to the impossible. With dinner that arrives with his way of doing unlikely and a comic style that has now calibrated on his massive and athletic figure (“That I have to do it, they give me weapons,” says his character by thinking back to his career as an actor) and the Elba appears that the English humor He has it in the bones and knows how to combine him very well to his colleague’s Yankee arrogance. Ilya Naishuller’s film, which had already been noticed for the experiment from the point of view firsthand Hardcore! and even more with the excellent work of the action with dramatic colors I am nobodyfocuses on the unlikely and yet functional alchemy among its main stars (with a veteran light in addition Priyanka Choprafrom Quantum to Citadel), who have fun and have fun while find themselves in a less adrenaline version of Air Force One For a scene set entirely in the presidential plane or when they try to beat with a group of fierce farmers on a farm in Belarusia by showing their being evidently out of place.

For the rest, the film is not based on anything else. John Cena and Idris Elba are only to tow the chariot of history and bring the task to home enough – as well as in their respective nations. There is a light and nice ridiculousness of American patriotism and a kinder hand in the grayness of the character and the ways of making British. So of Heads of state on the run We laugh at everything that could never happen to be unthinkable, from the adventure experienced by the two protagonists, to the ease with which crises in the world could be resolved and how much this requires a particularly acute suspension of our unbelief these days, more than it would usually be needed. A work of entertainment that leans and, fortunately, it doesn’t even do who know how much to reflect. Too absurd and ramshackle to do it. And, after all, it is also that of its objectives.