The Beekeeper: A Secret Agent’s Hive Protection Mission

The Beekeeper is a new action movie starring Jason Statham as Adam Clay, a quiet and soft-spoken man living in the New England countryside. He keeps bees and extracts honey in the shed of his elderly friend Eloise Parker, played by Phylicia Rashad. However, when Eloise commits suicide after being conned out of her savings by a shady company, Clay goes rogue to hunt down those responsible.

Clay is not just an ordinary beekeeper; he was once a member of a top-secret organization of special agents known as Beekeepers. These agents operate above the law when the law is not enough. The rest of the movie follows Clay’s rampage against the phishing conspiracy, taking out goons and sawing fingers off of sniveling phone scammers while grunting lines like “I protect the hive.”

The Beekeeper is a David Ayer action movie, focusing on the violent aspects of bees and beekeeping. The bees are functional to a point, serving as a motif for Clay’s obsession with putting the collective above himself and protecting the hive. However, the movie lacks curiosity about the insects beyond that point, and the inner workings of a beehive are ordered chaos compared to the chaos of the film itself.

Despite its flaws, The Beekeeper is entertaining, with inspired pizazz and Statham’s earnest delivery of lines like “I protect the hive.” The supporting cast is also good, even if they rely heavily on profanity-laden dialogue. Overall, The Beekeeper is a campy action movie worth checking out for fans of Jason Statham and over-the-top fight scenes.