Elba, whose career includes a lot of what might be called prestige genre, has such natural poise and gravity that one assumes he's done all the Shakespeares and Shaws and Ibsens, but "The Wire" and " Luther " were more his thing.

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),

John Cena of Amazon Prime Video's "Heads of State" is the latest actor to play a president who is ready to defeat the enemy with his bare hands.