Film Review - The Beekeeper (2024)

The Beekeeper is directed by David Ayer who you may remember from such films as Fury in 2014 and the original Suicide Squad film in 2016 and stars Jason Statham as Adam Clay a beekeeper on a nearby farm who notices the farms owner has committed suicide after falling victim to a phising scam on her computer but Andy is more than any ordinary beekeeper and is determined to find the member of the hive responsible and drain them of their honey.

The Beekeeper is terrific fun and multiple times while watching it I had a big smile on my face and at times I event went “Yaaaayyyy” as Jason does his Stath thing and kills a whole bunch of people but thankfully this time the action is fun to watch and not borderline boring which it has been in some of the Stath’s recent films like Operation Fortune and Expendables 4 though at times Ayer cuts the action scenes a little too tightly and it takes you out of the film at times.

Also the film has a fun story of tech bros as the villains which Josh Hutcherson (he of Peeta Mallark from the Hunger Games) does pretty well and I enjoyed seeing Jeremy Irons and Minnie Driver in small roles and the film clips along at a nice brisk pace and even has some story turns I didn’t expect and were nicely surprising.

And so that was the Beekeeper and its fun to watch and definitely a welcome step up in quality for the Stath who I often found myself wishing was making better films and now he has hopefully this continues, 3 and a half out of 5.