The members of the G7 find themselves stranded in the woods with zombie-like bog bodies in this surreal political comedy horror with a starry cast, but Film Brain finds this satire too aimless - he likes the giant brain, though.
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00:00An all-star cast stars in a bizarre political satire with a touch of horror in Canadian film
00:06Rumours. The members of the G7, including Cate Blanchett as an Angela Merkel-esque German
00:12Chancellor and Charles Dance as a Biden-esque sleepy US President, find themselves in the midst
00:17of a bog body apocalypse. The movie is pretty clearly a commentary on the G7's ineptitude and
00:24empty platitudes when it comes to addressing things like the climate crisis. That's a joke
00:29that rather wears thin by about halfway through. Rumour's absurd humour does occasionally hit the
00:35mark. Alicia Vikander shows up speaking Swedish alongside a giant brain and Rory Dupre steals
00:41much of the film as the Canadian Prime Minister who's ultimately cowardly and heroic. But the
00:46scattershot execution largely wastes its very talented cast and it can't be bothered to
00:51properly commit to its horror elements so they're mostly left trundling through the
00:55woods without purpose, aim or direction. And so too does the film.