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The Beekeeper
Jason Statham is the star and executive producer of 20224's The Beekeeper, a big budget actioner that provides what action fans are looking for, despite some flimsy writing that takes its sweet time pointing out who the good guys and the bad guys are.
Statham plays Adam Clay, man who takes vengeance on a company that just scammed a woman out of her life savings, motivating her to suicide. His burning this company to the ground leads to an investigation that reveals him to actually be an operative for an international organization called The Beekeepers.
Kurt Rimmer, who wrote the screenplays for the remakes of Total Recall and Point Break, provides a story that starts off very promisingly as we watch a woman, beautifully played by Tony Winner Phylicia Rashad, lose her entire life savings with one keystroke on her computer. This scene terrified this reviewer, motivating me to never wanting to reply to another text or email for the rest of my life and was pleased when Statham's character, who is actually introduced in the story removing bees from her property, made sure the people who did this to this woman, paid, but as the story revealed a double meaning to the term beekeeper that is never really explained, but employing empty analogies that are never explained.
An extra layer is added to the story when an FBI agent is brought onto the case, who turns out to be Rashad's daughter, comes into the story initially seeking Clay's help in avenging what happened to her mother but for the rest of the film, is seeking Clay's help one scene and hunting him down the next. Somehow the FBI's investigation leads to the POTUS (Jemma Redgrave), her spoiled son (Josh Hutcheson), and a sociopath (Oscar winner Jeremy Irons) manipulating both of them, but by the time the story works its way to here, I was working too hard to really care. I just couldn't stop thinking about poor Phylicia Rashad losing all her money in the opening scene and didn't care about anything after that. That scene haunted me.
Director David Ayer (Suicide Squad shows solid experience in the mounting of an action sequence, providing exactly what action fans want. Statham's action hero durability makes it easy to overlook his lack of acting skills, but Irons, Hutcherson, and Redgrave deliver the goods, and needless to say, Rashad is just heartbreaking in her few moments on the screen. It holds attention, but it's nothing special though it does set up a sequel.
Jason Statham is the star and executive producer of 20224's The Beekeeper, a big budget actioner that provides what action fans are looking for, despite some flimsy writing that takes its sweet time pointing out who the good guys and the bad guys are.
Statham plays Adam Clay, man who takes vengeance on a company that just scammed a woman out of her life savings, motivating her to suicide. His burning this company to the ground leads to an investigation that reveals him to actually be an operative for an international organization called The Beekeepers.
Kurt Rimmer, who wrote the screenplays for the remakes of Total Recall and Point Break, provides a story that starts off very promisingly as we watch a woman, beautifully played by Tony Winner Phylicia Rashad, lose her entire life savings with one keystroke on her computer. This scene terrified this reviewer, motivating me to never wanting to reply to another text or email for the rest of my life and was pleased when Statham's character, who is actually introduced in the story removing bees from her property, made sure the people who did this to this woman, paid, but as the story revealed a double meaning to the term beekeeper that is never really explained, but employing empty analogies that are never explained.
An extra layer is added to the story when an FBI agent is brought onto the case, who turns out to be Rashad's daughter, comes into the story initially seeking Clay's help in avenging what happened to her mother but for the rest of the film, is seeking Clay's help one scene and hunting him down the next. Somehow the FBI's investigation leads to the POTUS (Jemma Redgrave), her spoiled son (Josh Hutcheson), and a sociopath (Oscar winner Jeremy Irons) manipulating both of them, but by the time the story works its way to here, I was working too hard to really care. I just couldn't stop thinking about poor Phylicia Rashad losing all her money in the opening scene and didn't care about anything after that. That scene haunted me.
Director David Ayer (Suicide Squad shows solid experience in the mounting of an action sequence, providing exactly what action fans want. Statham's action hero durability makes it easy to overlook his lack of acting skills, but Irons, Hutcherson, and Redgrave deliver the goods, and needless to say, Rashad is just heartbreaking in her few moments on the screen. It holds attention, but it's nothing special though it does set up a sequel.