When it comes to action pictures, there’s “So bad that it’s good” and whatever the hell “G20” amounts to. So bad that it’s not godawful?

The idea of Oscar winner Viola Davis, aka “The Woman King,” as a two-fisted, combat vet “badass” president who can handle firearms and choke out a bad guy or snap the sumbitch’s neck isn’t far-fetched.

Sure, we’ve seen all those “Olympus has Fallen” movies and bought into Harrison Ford barking “Get OFF my plane!” in “Air Force One.”

But “G20” lurches between absurd and silly as a terrible, four-writer script ticks off pandering checkboxes even as it hits on a few scary truisms about life and politics in 2025.

Corrupted and treasonouns Secret Service agents in on a conspiracy? OK. Crypto-creeps ponzi scheming the global economy? Never saw that coming. Sexist Brits and brave, reliable South Koreans heads of state? There’s no stretch there.

Director Patricia Riggen earned her big break with “Under the Same Moon,” graduated to bigger budgeet fare with “The 33” and cut her teeth on action with “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.” Here, she directs traffic, ensures the brawls have their payoffs and tries to maintain her dignity between one contrived twist, character revelation and bloody one-on-one throwdown after another.

Davis plays new President Danielle Sutton, someone who rode a famously photographed bit of Fallujah heroism into politics and the White House, about to face her first big G20 summit.

It’ll be held in a resort in South Africa, where she’ll make her pitch for a save-sub-Saharan Africa from starvation via financing from the world’s richest economies.

But she’s got this rebellious teen daughter (Marsai Martin) who keeps outsmarting her Secret Service detail, and whatever cajoling she’ll have to do with allies (Douglas Hodge plays the PM of the UK) and international rivals, keeping that 17 year-old under control will be a distraction for her, her First Man (Anthony Anderson) and the hostile press.

There’s something afoot in the security for this high-profile summit. Private contractors have been hired, and a murderous prologue showed us the head of the Pax Security operation (New Zealander Anthony Starr of “The Boys” and “Guy Ritchie’s The Covenent”) killing somebody over a huge crypto-currency transaction.

Are you ready for a planet-shaking international incident, an “inside job” involving the highest profile hostages, crypto and a murderous, technologically omnipotent mob of mercenaries?

Wife, mother and “badass” President Sutton will have to run, hide, shoot and fight her way through this gang of roided up crypto bro commandos to save herself, her fellow leaders, the world’s economy and save face with that impossible but cunning teenage daughter Serena, who gripes that “All you ever try to do is make yourself look good!”

The bad guys play AI “deep fake” games in twisting the words of the world leaders while Sutton and her trusty Secret Service bodyguard and trainer (Ramón Rodríguez) kicj, punch, stab, shoot and choke their way through a multinational mob of mercenaries.

“You get around, DON’T you girl?” the smirking Aussie Rutledge (Starr) cracks on the walkie talkies after Sutton has plunged into a body count that greatly changes the odds.

“I’ll get around to you, too,” says the tough broad POTUS.

Whatever nonsense the narrative serves up involving laundry shoots, an impossibly tech savvy teen and the like, the movie isn’t served by the lack of dramatic weight on the bad guy side. Hitchcock preached “Good villains make good thrillers,” but Starr is no Gary Oldman (“Air Force One”), or even a Rick Yune (“Olympus has Fallen”). He’s more of a Jason Clarke (“White House Down”) or Tim Black Nelson (“Angel has Fallen”).

That points to where the cash WASN’T spent on this actioner. Rodriguez (TV’s “Will Trent”) and Anderson and Clark Gregg (as the barely present vice president) are the other “names” in the cast. Perhaps Amazon/MGM never intended “G20” as a theatrical release, because that crew, surrounded by never lesser-knowns, screams “TV movie.”

But Davis delivers, the fights are visceral and even if the bigger “stunts” are laugh-out-loud riduculous, even if the four screenwriters deserved a WGA paddling over much of their scripted “problem solving” (A laundry shoot? Go figure.), “G20” isn’t bad to the point of awful even if it isn’t so bad it’s “good.”

Rating: R, bloody violence

Cast: Viola Davis, Anthony Starr, Marsai Martin, Ramón Rodríguez,
Sabrina Impacciatore, Douglas Hodge, Elizabeth Marvel, MeeWha Alana Lee, Clark Gregg and Anthony Anderson.

Credits: Directed by Patricia Riggen, scripted by Caitlin Parrish, Erica Weiss, Logan Miller and Noah Miller. An MGM release on Amazon Prime.

Running time: 1:51