The Beekeeper
One man’s campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzINZZ6iqxY
Jason Statham hardly sets the world on fire in the acting stakes, but he sure can kick butt, there are good, bad and ugly parts to this film, Statham and the action scenes and the two FBI agents were the good part, the dialogue and the editing was the bad and the ending ten minutes was the ugly.
The choreographed action scenes were very good with one man taking on the FBI, SWAT and the Secret Service and leaving them impotent in his wake, that was mighty impressive, a retired operative for a shadowy off the books organisation that operates outside the law, hahaha, just what a bad guy needed to hear.
An FBI agent called Verona and her fellow agent Matt Wiley, spent most of the film chasing (Statham) but they are always one step behind, at least they keep count of the dead bodies until they run out of fingers to count with. Yes, I liked those two agents and I thought they could have got stuck in more but, the writer and director thought differently, they missed an opportunity there me thinks as Verona and Matt would have fitted in far better than they did do.
Wow, the last ten minutes of this film was way Over The Top mayhem, I don't know why the writer thought the film needed this kind of an ending because it didn't need it, if it had been toned down quite a bit I wouldn't have marked the film down as much, to show my displeasure with the ending I've knocked a point off it.
Apart from that, it's a decent film that needed a better editor and director to splice things in more seamlessly and, an extra writer who could have cleaned up the ending a lot more.
I'm thinking there could be a Beekeeper 2 in the near future, if there is, Verona and Matt should feature in it more heavily than they did do in this film.
Film Rating 6\10
Edit
I re-watched this film with the old codgers in the residents communal room, most of them enjoyed the movie, or it could have been the buffet that was provided for them that sealed the deal, and based on that fact I've upped the rating by 1 point.
