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“The Beekeeper” should attract flies, all right, not with honey, but rather the stale aroma of its inane premise. While the prospect of a Jason Statham action vehicle seemingly designed for those who find “John Wick” too intellectually demanding has possibilities, the film’s revenge plot gets stuck in convoluted detours more for the birds than the bees.
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Jason Statham keeps society (and bees!) safe in his new action film 'The Beekeeper.'
Maybe you've seen Jason Statham's taciturn man of violence in dozens of other movies, but the pleasures here are doubly so for being intensely familiar.
For a certain type of action movie fan, it’s the most wonderful time of the year: January pulp trashterpiece season.
A surprisingly well-casted action film from David Ayer hinges on one thing: your love of bee puns. Like "buzz," "sting" and "hive."