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This Viola Davis movie on Amazon is exciting fun. Right-wing terrorists have taken over the G20 conference in South Africa with the goal of crashing global currencies and exploding the value of their crypto holdings. But they didn't figure on a U. S. president who can shoot as well as she can negotiate. Antony Starr (of The Boys fame) as the manic villain is a match for Davis. Every action movie needs a great heavy to work and he fills the bill.

Now, as you can see by all the 1 ratings, the followers of a certain sociopathic president are not fans of this movie. The notion that a president might still care about the welfare of the less fortunate and actually *know* something about economics is anathema to this shabby crowd.

Nutty fun with some of the most amazing spectacle ever put on film. It really should be seen on a huge theatre screen.

But here's my problem, and the reason I voted it a 10 when I otherwise would have given it an 8: who are all these churls voting 1? My best guess is that they're (mostly) evangelicals whose preacher got up one Sunday morning and condemned the movie for proposing an alternate origin for our world and us that doesn't include their invisible sky wizard. Yes, it's a fanciful sci-fi origin story but it's more likely than the superstitious nonsense they believe.

Set between delusion (heaven) and reality (uh, reality), the story follows a man who flips out after a loved one dies of cancer and imagines himself in heaven. Yes, it's another Jesus movie to torture the children of evangelicals who drag them to these awful concoctions instead of taking them to see Spiderman or something actually, like, entertaining. But, I mean, can you imagine spending eternity around a bunch of Southern Baptists? You'd be trying to find out if you could get to another level of dead.