{"id":42298,"date":"2024-01-11T03:02:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T08:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=42298"},"modified":"2024-01-11T03:06:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T08:06:40","slug":"the-beekeeper-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/11\/the-beekeeper-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beekeeper (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jason Statham once upon a time was a guy who seemed like he was going to carry the torch and deliver a brand of unique action film roles. And then somewhere around 2010, he kind of backtracked and just reverted to playing the same variation of Jason Statham that we\u2019ve seen well in to fifteen years now. \u201cThe Beekeper\u201d is the latest in a line of what the internet are now labeling \u201cDad movies\u201d where your everyday Joe becomes a bonafide angel of vengeance. This time directed by David Ayer and written by Kurt Wimmer, the pair team to deliver, so far, one of the stupidest action movies of the year.<\/p>\n

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I can see \u201cThe Beekeeper\u201d probably becoming a camp classic years from now in the way Brian Bosworth\u2019s \u201cStone Cold\u201d became a camp classic, but right now the movie is just ridiculous from start to finish. Going along the line of one word or two syllable action movies starring middle aged actors delivering the smack down on those nasty Gen Zer\u2019s, \u201cThe Beekeeper\u201d stars Statham as Beekeeper Adam Clay. Clay is a devoted beekeeper who has devoted his life to bees, and lives a life of solitude as a beekeeper living down the road from his only friend, an elderly widow, played by Phyllicia Rashad. After she becomes the victim of a telephone scam and commits suicide, Adam comes out of retirement (a la \u201cJohn Wick\u201d) and goes back in to the world of beekeeping.<\/p>\n

Adam in his past life was a special kind of agent known as \u201cbeekeepers.\u201d What did they do? Top secret action movie\u2026 stuff\u2026? One character describes \u201cbeekeepers\u201d as those that \u201cprotect the hive.\u201d What the hell that means is anyone\u2019s guess. Are there other beekeepers out there? It\u2019s never explained. What exactly do beekeepers do? It\u2019s never explained. Are the beekeepers one entity or a whole organization? It\u2019s never explained. Why are beekeepers above the CIA and Secret Service? It\u2019s never explained. Is Adam supposed to be a bee protecting the hive, or a queen slayer killing the hive? I don\u2019t know. Writer Wimmer often gets confused with his bee metaphors.<\/p>\n

In either case, Adam starts out delivering the smack down on call centers and then it soon escalates in a massive espionage mission. The movie can never seem to decide how absurd it wants to get (here call centers are massive stages that look like game shows teeming with Gordon Gecko wannabes), and per contractual obligation (?), allows Statham to beat everyone up. Meanwhile he\u2019s pitted against the likes of a stationary Jeremy Irons, and Josh Hutcherson, of all people. \u201cThe Beekeeper\u201d is a silly, often obnoxious action film that takes its whole bee metaphor seriously. It drives home the whole bee aesthetic, ad nauseum, to where even a bad guy even mutters \u201cTo bee or not to bee.\u201d<\/p>\n

I still like Jason Statham and still consider him a fun action movie star. I hope someday he starts trying again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jason Statham once upon a time was a guy who seemed like he was going to carry the torch and deliver a brand of unique action film roles. And then somewhere around 2010, he kind of backtracked and just reverted to playing the same variation of Jason Statham that we\u2019ve seen well in to fifteen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,240,391,631,840,1087],"class_list":["post-42298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-crime","tag-gangster","tag-martial-arts","tag-revenge","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42300,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42298\/revisions\/42300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}