The Beekeeper
                               
Director: David Ayer
Year: 2024
Rating: 6.0
So, when are we getting the sequel? Adam Clay vs John Wick. I can see the money rolling in right now. The idiocy of this film reaches new highs. Not that anyone cares including myself but at least we should admit to ourselves that this was absurdly ridiculous. The concept of tension and suspense seems to have been left out of action films. The protagonist is a near superman of killing and must have some sort of force field surrounding him so that no one can shoot him. In this case, the FBI. the Secret Service, the police, mercenaries and thugs. None of them can shoot this guy who doesn't even try to be sneaky or slippery or fast. I get it that you are a Beekeeper, but you aren't the Invisible Man. If the Secret Service is this bad, I understand how Trump was almost shot, but at least those guys killed the shooter right after. Where was that guy? 



But this is what audiences want these days - again including myself - a guy to make things right in a world that makes us feel increasingly helpless, where justice is always out of reach to the powerful, the rich, the lawyers. A man with a gun who wants to right things and is really good at it. Whether kidnappers, dog killers or swindlers of old people. Having that one man with skills kill them feeds something inside us that we need. I think this feeling crosses party lines.



I wonder if Jason Statham ever gets tired of killing people in his films. Does he ever say to his manager, how about a family film where I am a loving father and help my kids with their homework. Sure Jason, but then there has to be a home invasion of slimy white supremacists wearing Confederate decals. Your daughter gets killed and you go on a rampage of murder and revenge. But before that, you show your daughter how to do algebra. Definitely not this film. The FBI even tries to keep track of the body count but eventually gives up counting.



Most of us probably don't know about the Beekeepers. Classified. But I will let you in on it and hopefully they won't come after us because they know everything we do. If you sneeze, it goes into their database. It is a secret organization so off off off the books that no one knows about them. Their mission. To keep the hive alive and stable. We are the hive. If something is hurting the hive, they mend it. By killing whoever is damaging it. Beekeepers make up their own rules and decide who needs killing. Hopefully, Musk hasn't fired any of them thinking they are clerks. What five things did you do this week? Adam Clay (Statham) is a retired Beekeeper - which I like - nice to know there is at least one organization of professional killers who let you retire.



In a cute turn, he now actually is a beekeeper and tends to a number of hives. He is renting the barn of a neighbor played by Phylicia Rashad. When she gets conned out all her money by some on-line creeps and commits suicide, Clay takes it personal and goes to work. Nice work if you can get it. These on-line conners are all yuppie scumbags who high-five whenever they scam some old lady out of her money and who doesn't like seeing those types killed. Years ago, I was using my father's computer and got a virus on it that said to get it back, we had to pay a ransom. Instead, we just re-formatted everything and had to start over. There was definitely a part of me that wishes I was Clay. The main villain is a true scumbag - the son of the President and clearly modelled on Donald Jr. There wasn't a person in American who didn't want him killed.