Today I will be doing a spoiler-free review of The Beekeeper. I just went to see this movie last week, and I enjoyed it far more than I thought I would. I went in without many expectations, thinking it was just going to be another mediocre action movie with no story. That was quite the opposite though, with the story not being anything insanely special, but still excellent and coherent without any plot holes. The first 10 minutes of the movie are very good and set the tone well for the rest of the film. The rest of the movie is just building off those first 10 minutes, and expanding on the story that was quickly set up. Jason Statham is the main character, and he plays a man named Adam Clay. He is, as the title says, a Beekeeper. However, that title has way more meaning than it comes off. Beekeepers are a secret organization that Clay used to be a member of. There aren’t that many other main characters, outside of a woman named Verona Parker. She plays an FBI agent who is investigating everything that happened in the first 10 minutes. Besides that, there aren’t any other main characters, besides the main antagonist. However, these two main characters, Clay and Parker, absolutely kill it and make it so that other characters aren’t needed.
The main antagonist of this movie is Derek Danforth. I thought he was a pretty solid character, and his characteristics of being a scared baby most of the time were pretty well done. He is played by Josh Hutcherson, and that was a great choice as I think Josh just has the look for that role. The action in this movie is also top-notch. This is what Jason Statham does best, but I think this was his best showing. Some of the stuff he was doing was so outrageously violent that it genuinely surprised me. He also basically just turned into John Wick for the entire movie, as nobody could touch him and he was outsmarting everyone. There was also a pretty good twist that came in more towards the end, and even though you could kind of see it coming, it was still good and set up an entertaining last 30 minutes. Those last 30 minutes of Josh Hutcherson’s character just waiting for his death, which I also found pretty entertaining.
I always rate movies I watch and I rate them based on 10 things in the show. Those things are action, acting, cinematography, pacing, score, characters, ending, plot, protagonist, and antagonist. I rate all of those pieces 1-10 and then after that, I add up the scores of all 10 of them and get a total score out of 100. I gave this movie an 83/100, and there isn’t really anything wrong with this movie, but at the end of the day it still just is an action movie. It’s paced well, has great action, with a good coherent story and good characters. But the score, ending, and acting from time to time are just decent—a very good and fun movie, but not an all-time classic.
