In the much-better-than-it-sounds Amazon-backed action comedy "Heads of State," relations are frosty between the president of the United States (John Cena) and the British prime minister (Idris Elba),

Amazon Prime Video released Heads of State on 2 July, uniting John Cena and Idris Elba in a slick, high-octane buddy comedy filled with political undertones and no interest in subtlety. What starts as a global crisis quickly spirals into a series of over-the-top,

Nate Richard of Collider agrees, giving Heads of State a 7 out of 10 for being “stupid in all the right ways.” Idris Elba and John Cena are so great together that they overshadow a lot of the film’s other shortcomings, Richard says, writing: