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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 5322473, member: 44"] [B]Heads of State (2025)[/B] They say there's no new ideas in Hollywood. So the question becomes how do you take old concepts and brush them up a bit so they seem at least "kind of" new? This movie is a semi successful attempt at polishing up the "buddy movie" concept to give it a fresh look and load it up with a lot of CGI. All the basic elements of the body movie are still there: 1) two protagonists, 2) who don't like each other, but 3) are forced to worked together, 4) in a cross country trip 5) against insurmountable odds, 6) gradually coming to like and respect to each other. I enjoy the concept, with my favorite probably being Midnight Run, so I didn't mind this movie. It's not great, but it's watchable and mildly entertaining. The premise is that John Cena is the president of the United States. He's a former action star who somehow manages to be elected president. He's at the start of his presidency and is enormously popular but inexperienced. Idris Elba is the Prime Minister of Great Britain. He is struggling in the favorability polls, but does have experience. The two don't like each other because Elba gave seen opponent a photo/soft endorsement during the election. Pretty implausibly they end up on a dramatically under protected Air Force One, which gets shot down. Amazingly, they survive by jumping out of the plane and are forced to make their way across Russia to Poland to get to a US safe house. It delivers the expected contrast of styles, humor, and reasonable action sequences. Two supporting actors help the movie considerably. The lovely Priyanka Chopra as the uber-competent spy/ex-girlfriend of Elba, and Jack Quaid as a CIA safe house facilitator. Quaid is good in his too short role, managing to be both a funny fanboy and a competent operative. Overall, it earns a very solid "three Deepsters" (to borrow from Fishy's rating system). [/QUOTE]

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