Updated 09.06 | Published at 09.00
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fullscreen Where are the drones? Jason Statham has an eye for bees. Photo: Scanbox/Amazon Mgm Studios
The Beekeeper
Regi David Ayer, med Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bobby Naderi, Josh Hutcherson, Jeremy Irons, Phylicia Rashad, Minnie Driver.
ACTION Time for revenge.
A sympathetic older woman (Phylicia Rashad) is being scammed by phone scammers. A rare unsympathetic gang painted as villains in colorful colors. They soon have reason to stop mocking when the old lady’s good friend the beekeeper (Jason Statham) comes for revenge. We’ve just seen him exterminate nasty wasps that were threatening his bees.
In the beginning, it is a competent action film, in the same spirit as the Taken and Equalizer series. And it can be titillating to see some ear-filing hideously evil and heartless types preying on the weakest. But this protagonist is insanely limitless and invincible. In some ways it resembles a war movie. Sometimes sadistically brutal.
Former British diver Jason Statham is a clear action hero. Here as another cruel and grunting old man who at first seems to try to avoid killing police and civilians. Finally, he slaughters his way forward without regard, as if exterminating wasps again.
“The Beekeeper” is the film that puts bees in the cinema. The screenwriter Kurt Wimmer is smugly fond of similes between bees and humans. Between the hive and the human village. Here there are plenty of lectures on how different kinds of bees have their functions. Like the villains he first takes revenge on turn out to have powerful bosses higher up the food chain.
The beekeeper hunts and is himself hunted when the FBI is on his trail. Everything goes away from bang to bang to the next explosion. The plot has some question marks, but all thought is drowned in gunfire and ding ding booming dramatic music. As a basic course on bees, it leaves no questions behind.
The film opens in theaters on February 21.
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full screen Emmy Raver-Lampman and Bobby Naderi. Photo: Scanbox
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