Have you ever watched a trailer and thought: “this is going to be the best or the worst thing I’ve ever seen”? If not, watch the trailer for Heads of State embedded below.
The movie, coming to Prime Video on July 2, stars John Cena as the US President and Idris Elba as the UK Prime Minister. And in this movie, they’re action heroes.
You read that right. In Heads of State, two of the world’s leaders are ass-kicking, wise-cracking, gun-toting action heroes.
I’ve watched the trailer a few times now and I honestly don’t know if this is going to be absolute genius and become one of the best Prime Video movies or if everyone involved should be kept away from cameras for the rest of their lives.
Heads of State could be the strangest Prime Video movie yet
Here’s the synopsis: “UK Prime Minister Sam Clarke (Idris Elba) and U.S. President Will Derringer (John Cena) have a not-so-friendly and very public rivalry that jeopardizes their countries’ ‘special relationship.’ But when they become the targets of a powerful and ruthless foreign adversary—who proves more than a match for the two leaders’ security forces—they are begrudgingly forced to rely on the only two people they can trust: each other.”
That means teaming up with Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s secret agent, going on the run and finding a way to thwart a conspiracy that threatens the entire world.
It’s a strong cast: in addition to the three leads the film also stars Paddy Considine, Stephen Root, Carla Gugino, Jack Quaid and Sarah Niles. And its director, Ilya Naishuller, made the Bob Odenkirk-starring Nobody, which gave us John Wick meets Better Call Saul, which was a hoot.
Heads of State is clearly very silly. But if like me you loved the daft action movies of the 80s, this could be an absolute blast.
Heads of State will be on Prime Video, one of the best streaming services, from July 2, 2025.
