The Beekeeper started the cinema year as a completely crazy action film. Now this smash hit with an absurd plot and crazy dialog is being released in a limited steelbook edition.
Wherever Jason Statham appears, action is never far away. In The Beekeeper by Suicide Squad director David Ayer, the actor once again shows off his fighting skills. The FSK 18 action thriller has just been released in home cinema, including in a limited steelbook edition.
This is what the action film The Beekeeper is about
The beekeeper Mr. Clay (Jason Statham) lives a secluded life on his farm in Massachusetts, but his life in harmony with nature is destroyed when his friend and neighbor Eloise Parker (Phylicia Rashad) commits suicide. A scam has robbed her of her fortune, and now Clay vows revenge on the phishing company responsible and its head Derek Danforth (Josh Hutcherson).
It quickly becomes clear that Mr. Clay is no ordinary beekeeper, but a former fighter who worked for the government in the secret shadow organization Beekeepers. And so the merciless vendetta quickly becomes a national affair.
(The Beekeeper)
The Beekeeper: Great entertainment with an absurd plot
The Beekeeper’s twisty and absurd plot focuses primarily on hilarious entertainment with crazy dialog. Logic is lost in the process, but perhaps that’s what makes The Beekeeper the craziest action movie of the year. Our editor Esther Stroh saw it in the cinema and writes:
At the latest when The Beekeeper unpacks its biggest surprise twist two-thirds of the way through, it becomes clear that the action movie no longer has to make sense. That it completely renounces credibility in favor of entertainment.
Beekeeper villain Josh Hutcherson probably feels the same way. In an interview with Moviepilot, he admitted that the movie may have been taken to extremes. The Beekeeper has a solid 6 rating here, while the audience at Rotten Tomaotes is much more enthusiastic with 92 percent approval, and the critics are also very positive with 71 percent.
The Beekeeper in the limited steelbook
The Beekeeper is most fun if you don’t think too much about it. Just let the exaggerated dialog and the absurd plot sink in and laugh along
