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Jan 3, 2024 · The Beekeeper is a revenge thriller starring Jason Statham as a former Beekeeper who fights a powerful soliciting firm that scammed his neighbor. The film is directed by David Ayer and released in theaters on January 12, 2024. Find out more about the cast, trailer, plot, and release date of this action film.
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Jan 12, 2024 · A former operative of a secret organization called "Beekeepers" seeks revenge on the scammers who hurt his family. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this movie.
- David Ayer
- 2024-01-12
- Action, Thriller
- Jason Statham, Minnie Driver, Josh Hutcherson
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By Emma Stefansky
Updated: Jan 10, 2024 10:11 pm
Posted: Jan 10, 2024 10:06 pm
The Beekeeper opens in theaters January 12.
Every great idea that moves an art form forward inspires imitators who swim in its wake, and John Wick has more imitators than most. The second audiences started praising the type of fight choreography that allows the viewer to actually see what’s going on, every action movie treated us to grueling, lengthy combat scenes shot at wide angles with every landed punch in the center of the frame. Others aped bits of the Wick mythos, building worlds of lore for their main characters – often members of secret fighting societies, often retired – and their enemies – usually mobsters or hitmen possessed with terrifying knowledge of a certain martial art. The Beekeeper, directed by David Ayer and starring Jason Statham, is the latest of these copycats, posing the intriguing question: What if John Wick, but with bees?
Statham plays Adam Clay, a quiet, soft-spoken man living in the New England countryside. He keeps to himself, but makes an exception for Eloise Parker (Phylicia Rashad), an elderly woman who lives in an isolated farmhouse. They share one exposition-laden conversation, but you can tell they’re friends. (If there’s one thing Statham’s going to do, it’s charm every veteran actress he’s cast opposite.) Clay keeps bees, housing them in hives on the side of the road and extracting and jarring the honey in Eloise’s shed. One evening, when delivering a jar of said honey to Eloise (after collecting a bunch of bee-killing hornets in a bag and electrocuting them), Clay finds her dead on the floor of her living room, having committed suicide after a shady company conned her out of her savings.
Things escalate from here. Gone is the hazy farmhouse, the rolling upstate hills. FBI Agent Verona Parker (Emmy Raver-Lampman) is on the case, but her jurisdiction only goes so far. It’s up to Clay to go rogue, hunting down those responsible for his friend’s death and blowing up their neon-tinged call centers. Shockingly, a beekeeper played by Jason Statham is not just a beekeeper. He was once a capital-B Beekeeper – “A Beekeeper beekeeper?” one character asks breathlessly – a member of a top secret organization of special agents that operates above the law when the law is not enough.
As you might expect, the rest of the movie is Adam Clay punching and shooting and exploding his way to the top of the phishing conspiracy, taking out goons and sawing fingers off of sniveling phone scammers while grunting lines like “I protect the hive” and “I’m gonna burn you down.” His lengthiest piece of dialogue is a long diatribe about the evils of organizations that financially prey on elderly people, so as far as any viewer is concerned, his actions are completely justified.
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There’s enough over-the-top action and dialogue in the script by Expendabl3s writer Kurt Wimmer to keep things entertaining. There's also a bit of fun worldbuilding: Clay calls in to a headquarters where chat bubbles show up as little honeycomb hexagons, and the way certain characters talk about Beekeepers, it’s clear they’ve run up against a formidable foe. (“When a Beekeeper says you’re gonna die,” one character explains, “you’re gonna die.”) Even Statham’s everyday beekeeping outfit looks like tactical gear, with a tailored fit and a series of buckles on the side reminiscent of body armor.
A beekeeper who is also a secret agent called a “Beekeeper” whose job is to preserve the apiaries of American economy and democracy is a great, hilarious idea on paper, and in action star Jason Statham’s hands, bee-obsessed Adam Clay has the makings of another of the British actor’s iconic characters. A semi-confusing script and heavy-handed direct...
The Beekeeper is a film about a beekeeper who is also a secret agent, starring Jason Statham. It follows his revenge quest against a phishing conspiracy that killed his friend and threatened the honey industry.
- Emma Stefansky
The Beekeeper ( Greek: Ο Μελισσοκόμος, translit. O Melissokomos) is a 1986 Greek drama art film [1] directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos. The film is the second installment in Angelopoulos's "trilogy of silence", preceded by Voyage to Cythera and followed by Landscape in the Mist.
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Theodoros Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Dimitris Nollas
The Beekeeper is a 2024 film directed by David Ayer and starring Jason Statham as a former operative of a secret organization. The movie follows his revenge mission against a powerful villain and his allies, with plenty of action, humor and twists.
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Oct 4, 2023 · Watch the red band trailer for The Beekeeper, a movie starring Jason Statham as a former operative of a secret organization. The film, directed by David Ayer, opens in theaters on January 12, 2024.
The Beekeeper is a 2024 action thriller film directed by David Ayer and starring Jason Statham as a former operative of a clandestine organization known as "Beekeepers". The film follows his campaign for vengeance and the national stakes of his actions after he is revealed to be a former operative. Watch the trailer and learn more about the film on the official site.
