IMDb plot summary: One man's brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as "Beekeepers".
Directed by David Ayer. Starring Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, and Bobby Naderi.
The Beekeeper is a Jason Statham action vehicle where he plays not only a literal keeper of bees but also a retired member of a super-trained government group known as "the Beekeepers." When someone close to him loses everything in an Internet scam, he goes absolutely nuclear to find the people who targeted her. This is exactly what you think it's going to be going into it, or at least exactly what I thought it would be -- a dumb, loud action flick where our protagonist goes around rampantly murdering people. So much of the beekeeper metaphor and the plot exposition are delivered so clunkily that I honestly can't tell if it's intentional or not. The one saving grace for me was, to my surprise, Josh Hutcherson as the narcissistic startup mogul masterminding the whole thing. Hutcherson plays him with such vapid irritation that I did genuinely laugh out loud at some of his line deliveries. I admit I'm not at all the target demographic for this movie, so if you are someone who will enjoy the big fight scenes and not be bothered by lazy twists and painfully extended metaphors, this might work better for you than it did for me.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Beekeeper < Captain Phillips
The Beekeeper > Captain America: The Winter Soldier
The Beekeeper < Stepmom
The Beekeeper > Cinderella (2015)
The Beekeeper < The Big Heat
The Beekeeper < Hitch
The Beekeeper < Suspiria (1977)
The Beekeeper < Water for Elephants
The Beekeeper < House of Games
The Beekeeper < The Untouchables
The Beekeeper < The Divorcee
The Beekeeper > Blue is the Warmest Color
Final spot: #2659 out of 3869, or 31%.
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