 When the mom from the Cosby show takes her own life after being swindled out of millions of dollars by a phone scammer Vigilante hero Jason Statham takes matters into his own hands and boy do those hands have some sting to him Because Jason Statham's a beekeeper in this new R-rated action flick The Beekeeper and I can confidently say this will be one of the dumbest movies I watch all year and it's only January Let's talk about it Jason Statham plays Adam Clay, but he's really just Jason Statham and I should point out my name is also Adam So if you like the name Adam, please subscribe to the channel Adam Does Movies where I talk about movies all the time every single week and would love to have you stick around Stick around like a bee and boy. Howdy. Does this movie go all in on bees? I already mentioned this movie is the dumbest thing I'll probably see this year. I stand by that statement That doesn't mean it can't be fun. Lots of dumb movies are fun Hell Jason Statham stars and a whole bunch of them that people like so I think my job today is to just give you a little bit of a heads up on what to expect a lot of action Most of it's very cool. John Wick-esque style hand-to-hand. He's constantly disassembling guns tossing them I'm not really sure why because he does have no problem killing innocent people or at least wounding them severely to the point Where they probably will slowly bleed out in the hospital later He's a man of very little sleep. In fact, it sounds like he doesn't sleep at all The guy's just just eats and breathes justice 24-7. He's a very stock NPC style character really no background to him really no personality at all It's just Jason Statham grunting saying one-liners Going from place to place killing everyone or beating the shit out of them to the point where they probably want to die But don't get the sweet release of death and that's it wash rinse repeat for hour 45 easy breezy cover girl This movie's rated R for violence. There's some swearing of course Josh Hutchinson's the villain I didn't see that coming. I really only saw the one trailer and I guess it didn't register that he was in this I liked his character. He's very over the top a total douchebag bro Scammer at the top of the food chain his mom's very powerful figure We get into that more in the later half where things go really off the rails loony But really it doesn't matter because nothing in this story makes any sense at all It's another one of those films that tries to be like John Wick it builds a secret underground society called the beekeepers and When the state fails to enact justice these guys are here to keep things in check Oh, we have someone at the top. That's not doing the right job Well, we could have a queen killer a killer bee who's gonna rise up and take care of business Take care of bees nests if you will but Adam clay is out of the game Oh much like John Wick secret underground society Retired has to come back out for one last ride because his hand was forced and here we are again He was minding his own beeswax as a beekeeper for Felicia Rashad And then she's killed because these bastards Condor out of millions of dollars and with that stage set the rest of it's really nothing more than stathem going around kicking the crap Out of people and for a lot of people that's gonna be plenty good. I was entertained enough I kept thinking how dumb this movie is I Kept thinking The acting is really bad not from stathem stathem is actually really good at this He's very good at keeping his cool saying these terrible lines of dialogue But there's an actress in here that plays the strong female lead cop who takes no nonsense She's in over her head yet has no problem taking care of business And I just she was really cringy when she's popping on the shades doing her little sassy looks I hated everything she was in and she had this rapport with her fellow officer This banter that never landed a single time the jokes all missed the mark So there is a good 25% of this film that should just be fast forward if possible Otherwise you just go right to the action scenes really everything that's not stathem kicking the crap out of people is pretty Piss poor in this it really does have a throwback 90s vibe to it And I'm not talking good 90s like I don't even know if I'd say time cop And time cop's pretty cool. I'm thinking more Jean-Claude Van Damme double impact or sudden death The kind of sea list Jean-Claude Van Damme movies or maybe even the sea list crank two or Transporter three it's not transporter one or two levels for me here Those movies were fun and slick through and through the beekeeper has some really stupid parts that were beyond the pale One of them again trying to mirror John Wick in the first one. There's a female assassin that goes after him She's crazy. She does things her own way that happens here, but it's so just Messily executed the beekeeper organization according to this film is really nothing more than one woman with a headset Taking a couple calls from people and at one point Jason Statham's character Adam I shouldn't be able to remember that name. It's mine. He is on the list He's a threat and so she puts out a kill contract for this psycho woman and she seriously responds This is the target and the contractor's like ah ha ha lol This should be fun and then she's shot out of a can and rolls up to a gas station We can wow wow west and she pulls out the Gatlin gun Somehow the gas station isn't blowing up until it's perfectly time for it to which is Statham walking away in slow motion Like he always does this whole movie Jason Statham just kind of slowly meanders around this place and people are like Where is he? Where is he at? And he's just the background like eating a sandwich and they can't shoot him or see him There's one moment where he's running out in the lawn and the cop the main cop runs out She's like where's he at and he's seriously like right in front of them He's like hey guys and then a person walks by and he's gone. It's that kind of dumb shit That's just littered throughout this film but you can go into this with that knowledge at least and to be fair The movie's called the beekeeper About an organization of beekeepers and he is even a beekeeper himself like It's not taken it too seriously I wish it almost would have been sillier though because some of it felt a little too. Oh, we're cool and slick It should have been more like a naked gun move It's too serious for how stupid this is Action-wise like I said, it's great Jason Statham still got it. He's kicking the shit out of guys He's throwing punches. He's throwing people into cars. He's jumping out of buildings. It looks good. It's slick Music pretty generic pretty stock nothing great there cinematography pretty good across the board nothing amazing Budget felt cheap on this film, but not insultingly. So the acting is terrible Outside of state them the acting is pretty bad even freaking Jeremy Irons seems so completely checked out of this film Anytime he's on you can just see him counting the money going into his bank account There's nothing more for him here to work with he's not putting anything into it I wouldn't say run out and watch this if it's free to stream on a service Sure as long as you know, you're kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel as far as the John Wick Action style goes. I mean I put nobody above this. I put atomic blonde above this I put a whole bunch of films above this one But you know Sometimes you can never have enough of it, right? I don't I didn't mind it. I didn't like it. I didn't hate it It's just there. It's the beekeeper and this is gonna fit right in nicely with the bee universe Which includes of course a bee movie a kilo in the bee honey Honey boy bumblebee The beekeepers wife Anything really with being it even if it has to do with literal bees or not I'm putting it in the cinematic universe we have here. Okay. That's it. That's my review of the beekeeper Let me know if you saw this Let me know if it's stuck for you or if you thought no this this looks like a sticky treat I want nothing to do with Be careful though. Sometimes people can be rude in the comments. I know you're not one of them I would love though if you could make like a bumble and and buzz your ass up to the subscribe button Throw a subscription my way. I appreciate it. I have fun here. I talk movies I do roasts. I do rants. I do live streams. It's all in the movie sphere. So join the adam does movies cinematic universe It's a good time. Please like the video. Please comment if you want share it I'm on spotify. 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