Is this Heads Of State trailer dumb enough to work?

The trailer suggests: Maybe? Cena and Elba, reunited from James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, are obviously game, with Cena playing something akin to an American Schwarzenegger type, and Elba playing someone completely unimpressed with him. Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Jack Quaid, both presumably on loan from Prime’s TV roster, fill in standard stock roles. (She’s the cool badass secret agent; he’s the engagingly dorky gun nerd, natch.) And the whole thing is directed by Ilya Naishuller, who gets in a few Nobody and Hardcore Henry perspective tricks with his camera while making tons of shit explode. (Take it as read, meanwhile, that the political satire doesn’t go any further than “Stuffy British guy annoyed by American braggart.”) There’s a lot of dopey charm at work here, undeniably; it’s just set itself a weirdly hard hill of suspended disbelief to try to push its way up.