From: ahk@chinet.com
Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>I borrowed the Amazon Prime Roku stick from the library.
It occurred to me that Heads of State (2025) is on the Prime. As Rhino
and others observed, it's light entertainment and quite enjoyable. Idris
Elba isn't challenged by the script, but John Cena impressed me with
improved acting, giving the character personality, and a deft comic
touch.
ASL in the fight scenes wasn't annoyingly short and Priyanka Chopra was
fun to watch, when she was doing her own fighting, in those scenes. I
did miss the long spectacular hair. I don't care if it's unrealistic for
the character. If she needs her hair dressed immediately after fighting,
that's what I want to see.
I saw that the Stephen Root character was named Arthur Hammond in his
death scene with captions. At know point did we hear the name in
dialogue. Similarly, neither the male nor female henchmen were named.
Jack Quaid was amusing in the safe house scene.
The script's main disappointments was the borrowing from My Fellow
Americans (1996) in the road trip across Belarus and making Carla Gugino
the main villain. It was a little hard to believe they weren't captured
early on.
BTR1701 likely had issues with security and how The Beast was portrayed.
There were commercial breaks but they took care with placement and there
were only 3.
In the same year, Elba also portrayed the president.
>There was a large selection of kids' shows. All I foumd that was
>actually from Prime was The Night Manager (2016), adapted from the 1993
>John Le Carre novel. It was on BBC One originally and I believe sold as
>foreign programming to AMC in the US.
I'm still watching this. Commercial breaks have been obnoxious,
interrupting scenes. It really seems familiar so I must have watched 9
years ago.
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