News got you down? Need a break from politics? Want to forget your country’s troubles? If substance abuse isn’t your thing, luckily Amazon Prime Video dropped a new movie on Thursday called G20. It’s set in a far-fetched fantasy world where a Black woman was elected president, she is a principled and heroic figure, and the United States still cares about its allies and is respected on the world stage. I know, it’s a leap! But if you can suspend your disbelief, you might just be able to waste over 90 minutes of your time watching this preposterous popcorn thriller just like I did!

Here on Planet B, President Danielle Sutton is played by Viola Davis, who would like you to temporarily forget she’s an EGOT winner and instead focus on the fact she’s clearly been working out in order to beat the asses of a bunch of bad guys. But Sutton is not just any president: She’s also a mom! And she’s not just any mom: She’s also a war hero! And she’s got an ambitious plan to end world hunger (using digital currency, somehow?) that she needs to convince other leaders to get behind. So, it’s off to—you guessed it—the G20 summit in Cape Town, South Africa, for her first major international event. “But you can’t bully them into it!” she’s told by her treasury secretary, who warns her to play nice with her fellow heads of state. (An American president making foreign aid a leading priority and relying on the art of diplomacy, as opposed to strong-arming? What were the screenwriters smoking?! One small detail that does seem plucked from our reality, though: Sutton has a penchant for framing Time magazine covers about herself.) But when an army of shadowy bad guys blows up the summit—quite literally—and takes everyone hostage, it’s up to Sutton to save the day.

Of course, there is precedent for this specific subgenre of movie where the American president is forced to become a badass action hero. After Harrison Ford kicked neo-Soviet bad guys off his plane in Air Force One (1997), Jamie Foxx helped to save the day when rogue government mercenaries took over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in White House Down (2013). That same year, Aaron Eckhart played a president battling North Korean fighters attacking the White House in Olympus Has Fallen, and returned to the role three years later in London Has Fallen when he had the misfortune of being taken hostage again, this time by Islamist terrorists. Morgan Freeman then played his successor in the trilogy’s final part, Angel Has Fallen (2019), in which he was attacked by—hell, does it even matter at this point?—private military contractors or something.

Look, maybe it’s just because I’m an Australian who recently returned to the U.S. after a trip home to visit family, during which I was asked no less than 10 trillion times what on earth is happening to this country, but I’m not sure these movies are what they once were. While G20 was no doubt intended to follow the mold of spurring patriotism through punches, it has the misfortune of being released into a world where America has cast itself as a global villain—where even the literal prime minister of Canada has said the “old relationship we had with the United States … is over.” To release a movie at this moment that portrays the president as the leader of the free world (whatever that used to mean) doesn’t just feel tonally ignorant, it feels downright inappropriate. It certainly doesn’t help that G20’s script is so flimsy it makes you realize just how thin this illusion always was.

Ah, yes. The script. I mean, I presume there was one. It certainly doesn’t help that the bad guys’ motivations are never really made clear beyond a mix of claims about powerful nations stealing from the poor (while also being mad about the U.S. giving out foreign aid?!), avenging the “Big Lie” that got Sutton elected (subtle, huh?), attempting to enrich themselves by stealing cryptocurrency, and getting revenge against the U.S. for taking Australia (?) into the Iraq War. Do the bad guys have an escape plan? Unclear! But don’t worry too much, as this is the kind of movie where not once, but twice, a bad guy comes back from the dead because our hero forgets to give them the old double tap. The most realistic thing about G20 is that the lead Australian villain (Antony Starr from The Boys) is casually racist toward Asian people. (See? I can take swings at my home country, too. Please don’t cancel my green card.)

In no particular order, please enjoy this random list of incredible details from the movie:

• At one point, a character is taken into a prison and on the wall of the jail there is a poster that reads “CRIME.”

• Davis and her favorite Secret Service agent, Manny Ruiz (Ramón Rodríguez), unwind by beating the shit out of each other through martial arts in the White House Rose Garden.

• The first line we see a character utter on screen is the incredible piece of dialogue, “Place the crypto wallet under the kneeler!” Moments later, another character says, “You need this Bitcoin for your plan to work!”

• When she arrives for the summit, Davis—who, I must remind you, is playing the American president—is cheerfully told by hotel staff she’ll need to wear a wristband to act as her key, as if she were staying at an all-inclusive resort in Cancún and might want to beep herself into the games room.

• Another line of poetry that is somehow delivered soberly with a straight face: “In a world where disinformation is more powerful than misinformation, this will look very damning!”

• In the final sequence, a bystander is filming the action on Instagram Live, and that is what the U.S. vice president and his team are watching IN THE SITUATION ROOM.

Look, I like Viola Davis. Everyone likes Viola Davis. I would watch her read a phone book if those still existed. But G20 is a deeply embarrassing misreading of the moment. It’s certainly not a good sign for your movie when it’s the chief villain who utters the line that rings most true to ears in the real world:  “You’re no hero. I see you for what you are. You’re a fake. You’re a fraud. You’re a fake president.”

It might be easy to regard G20 as nothing more than it’s claiming to be: a feel-good, action-packed fantasy geared toward liberals who want to feel proud of their country and their president again. But this is being served up by a company that has reportedly paid an astonishing $40 million for a vanity-project documentary about our current first lady (after donating another $1 million to her husband’s inauguration fund) in a naked attempt to curry favor with an administration that is doing everything it can to alienate and punish longtime friends and allies whose citizens have died while fighting in American wars while also ripping aid money away from the developing world in moves that will cause millions of people to die each year. Against this backdrop, G20 isn’t simply farcical or even just poorly timed—it’s downright offensive.