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‘The Beekeeper’ Review: Jason Statham Grimaces His Way to the Top in Bonkers B-Movie
Jason Statham sets aside his honey-making activities to avenge a friend's death in David Ayer's unusually kooky conspiracy thriller, 'The Beekeeper.'
If you don’t get a hearty belly laugh out of watching Statham scowl his way through the opening montage, in which Clay is shown collecting honey and tending his hives on a bucolic country estate while landlady Eloise (Phylicia Rashad) falls for a blatantly fishy online scam, then “The Beekeeper” is probably not for you. Depending on your appetite for cockamamie conspiracy theories, that conceit is either the dumbest or most brilliant thing about “The Beekeeper.” Engineered in such a way that partisan American audiences can indulge their distrust of recent U.S. leaders, the movie features characters who could be variously interpreted as proxies for Bush, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden and the Trump clan. We’re meant to be rooting for Statham’s bug-brained vigilante, and yet, by the film’s climax — in which he bursts in on the American president with gun drawn — it’s hard not to be reminded of the scene three years and six days earlier, when self-appointed heroes from groups called the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers violently took matters into their own hands.
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