The Reel Rejects - THE BEEKEEPER (2024) MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:02:02 I didn't care. I loved him so much in this movie. But I loved how personal was, like, right away in the first, like, 10, 15 minutes. Again, I'd only experienced that one trailer that you showed me after we watched Wrath of Man. I was like, this is going to be a schlocky, fun little action film. I was not expecting it to be so heavy-handed, at least in the first 15, 20 minutes. And, like, that is a real serious world thing where, you know, people, especially older people get,

Starting point is 00:02:28 I mean, obviously everyone deals with fraud and scam, you know, artists and all that. But it really affects older people. My, unfortunately, my grandfather, God rest of soul, he dealt with that quite a bit. And we had to try and tell many times, like, no, like, you got to stop falling for this. And, you know, that's a big audience who they go after. So I like that David Eyre incorporated that into the story. And then that was obviously the personal thing. Also, too, I really loved all the beekeeper stuff that they.

Starting point is 00:02:58 they were, you know, incorporating with all the lines and crap that I thought they were very interestingly and well methodically used, you know, like, just like the, the queen beehive and the offspring, all that stuff. It was just so well utilized. And just like the organization and the backstory and the history, there was just so many different interesting layers. But again, the way everything was balanced out from the action to the heavy hardness and then a little incorporation of the humor as well. I thought very well done. I think like you, my only weak point was some of the FBI stuff,

Starting point is 00:03:38 especially more so on that one actor. I'm sure he's a great actor. I haven't really seen him in anything. It's just I wasn't particularly fond of the way the direction of that character was used, personally. And overall, though, this was such a fun time. And such a heavy-hearted subject again, just with what happened with the old nice lady at the beginning,

Starting point is 00:04:01 you know, her offing herself and what happened, just incorporating real life situations. And then the reveal, too, that she's the president. I was not expecting that. I just figured just a regular politician. Just some interesting reveals and also the hand-to-hand combat. Oh, my freaking God. I can't even imagine the level of difficulty that all that planning took

Starting point is 00:04:26 and the way, you know, that how long it took to film all of that. And Jason Statham, he is the master. That was, like, very impressive to watch. I got more to say, but what did you think, Greg? I thought it was a really fun movie. I thought it was really fun. And in a way that I didn't anticipate being fun. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:04:50 Because the trailers pitch something that was going to, that I thought would just only lean into a shawl. lock fest like you said like a cheese fest of an experience and while the cheesiness is there it it's it's surprising like i think in the first 15 20 minutes it was really smart to lean into it being serious yeah because you're going to go on to this mission this vendetta this revenge quest against this clandestine organization you need a first ground in something that's not just mission-based you need to ground or something that is like just primal which is revenge but gets you connected to the characters at hand and you didn't want to

Starting point is 00:05:35 and the key to any revenge movie is you have to want to feel the character's motivation of getting that revenge it's a real I think revenge stories are a very cathartic uh thing for people to experience because in real life you know they say don't get revenge you know that's bad people shouldn't go after getting revenge. Don't take the line of your own hands. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But, you know, it's a fantasy. A lot of us wish to live out.

Starting point is 00:06:03 And so movies are supposed to give us that cathartic experience, right, of those feelings that release in a way. And so I think investing you in that was smart. And I feel like David Ayer is a political commentary side of, you know, politics. And, of course, the one percent of systems in place. corruption while was there it was a big part of the the world building to it and there were times throughout where i felt like maybe it was taking it's like the first half i thought was actually near perfect to me i think the first half was near perfect in terms of the the the the tonal

Starting point is 00:06:50 balance and then the last half i thought kind of got a little too like seriousness where I thought there was at times I thought the self-awareness of what they were doing might have been not as self-aware, I will say. You know what I mean? It would just get like super serious to the point where, because this movie has a weird, a weird approach where you start off with Jason Statham as his beekeeper. And while the movie revolves around him in all fronts, all aspects, you'll go these extended periods of time where you're cutting around to characters who are mainly just plot mechanics, like you got Jeremy Irons and Josh Hutcherson interacting. You got the FBI people.

Starting point is 00:07:40 And it feels like they lose sight of what should feel more personal for the FBI girl. Agreed. I forget. I want to get her name because I believe she's the one from umbrella. She's in an umbrella academy. Yeah, I think she is the one from umbrella. I want to get her name. Um, yeah, like because, and I felt like there was a lack of wraparound for her when this started

Starting point is 00:08:00 off as this should also be something pretty perp. Why does this feel more personal for Jason Statham than it does for her when it was her mom who died from this? Yeah. And, and the only reason I'm taking that serious is because the movie started taking a more serious approach. but now I'm very selective on using the words but and the words however because when they say but that means you are negating everything that comes before it and I'm not necessarily negating it's a bit of a but and a however however being in conjunction however and but I would say that what I showed up for was grandiose what I showed up for was awesome like the action to me and the trailers didn't even demonstrate

Starting point is 00:08:47 uh what would make the because to me and remember i see a jason stathen trailer the action looks the exact same but i feel like it's the same choreographer and the same fight scenes every time and while he always does a great job that i'll look like the same shit i've seen in like every jason statham movie and then usually when you check into the film itself you can see more of the uniqueness and to me because this is a hard r like we saw wrath the man where there's no hand-to-hand right it's it's gunplay And then here, it's mainly hand-to-hand for the guy with this like Jason Bourne meets Jackie Chan S level of violence where you use brutality, but you're using props around you and the presence of Jason Statham, of course. Like he's that guy who can play stoicism, but ooze charisma simultaneously. It's a gift. It really, he's got that it factor to being a star. And I think he's excellent here. And the violence was violent, but but creative. and packed a punch and I really loved the and there was always a bit of a cathartic release and I like the sequences too when he's when he's put in a position like at the at the estate at the very end when he has to make his way to the president you know he's got to deal with mercenaries and SWAT team people and SWAT team you don't kill mercenaries you can kill and so I like how in that action scene you're like paying attention

Starting point is 00:10:13 to, if anything, I think this movie really proved David Ayer's a hell of an action director because he has to get you, like, follow the action, follow everything is happening and a sequence like that where normally you just only get, you don't kill these guys, you only can harm them, but you don't kill them. And here I like that, that was a unique thing where I feel like that can be overlooked and it's a mixture where he's like, okay, you don't kill that guy, but you can kill this guy, you know and he has to be like anticipation anticipatory that and the final fight too like he saved a good brutal i thought like the best fights might have been behind us early on but he saved that

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Starting point is 00:14:10 Hutchinson, they really gave, like, performances here. They did a really good job. And then the one who plays the FBI agent, uh, it should be her, right? Yeah, and, uh, Emmy Raver Lampen. Okay, yeah. And like, she did a really good job, too. And, and, and I, I feel, umbrella coming. Yeah, and I, I do think they, uh, a lot like lost side of her but for terms of like an action movie where it was fun and I was engaged around and had a little more in its mind than I was expecting to uh I thought it was really good it pretty much gave me everything that I wanted I think the first half is stronger but there are some great stuff in the in the last half yeah personally yeah no excuse me yeah and I I hear what you're saying and I totally agree with you just like on

Starting point is 00:14:58 in terms of her character I get it she's an FBI agent you got to tiptoe that line on you know your job and I get it they did come around to it in the end where you know she did let him go which i'm glad she did um but yeah it did feel like it was more personal to jason statham's character uh which again you know we we found out like that uh there was that line of dialogue that how she was the only one who was ever like you know that motherly figure that was kind to him and understandable but i really would have uh you know just if when they were leaning more on that serious stuff just would have liked that they were showing like that she was extremely conflicted with like trying to you know do her job or take this more in a more personal sense

Starting point is 00:15:42 because I really feel like that would have been a little more grounded in the sense of all this but it is what it is but also too in regards to Jason Statham's character on top of the badass that he was I just loved how you know to your point as well in terms of like how he was able to sneak into you know the estate and all that he was just so resourceful and you know that came into whether he was sneaking into places, whether he had the tactical gear ready to go with the suit or to go onto the beach. Also, too, when he met the charismatic and best character,

Starting point is 00:16:15 the partner FBI agent, he's like, I have kids, and he's like, yeah, three boys and a girl. Like he just, he did his research. He was extremely, you know, just intelligent. He just knew things. And I just, I love intelligent, smart, badass characters like that. and I just was so appreciative of that. Yeah, I think, I think this was overall, like, a really,

Starting point is 00:16:38 this is a solid action movie. To me, it's a solid action movie where at times I could, like in the last half particular, there were certain scenes where I was like, is this, when it was cheesy, I felt like intentionally self-aware. Yes. And other times I'm like, are we not self-aware anymore? And is this supposed to be like really serious? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:16:58 At times it's supposed to be serious. So, you know, and that's what I mean. It's fine. You've got to just find a balance, though. And I think sometimes that balance comes a little bit off. Yeah. And so, but whenever Jason Statham is there, the movie's incredibly engaging. And yeah, for sure.

Starting point is 00:17:15 And I really thought, it's fine that they didn't, but I truly thought they were going to go through the entire film without him using a gun. But the time that they did go, that was incredible. I mean, I can't remember the last time I saw an action hero. And this type of film go that long into a film, like, with that many action sequences, just do hand-to-hand, no guns. I was impressive. Yeah. But I think, again, that's a testament to David Ayer as a director.

Starting point is 00:17:41 Yes. Is because the buildup to that, you know, like you were really noticing it too. And I was noticing it. So they reserve when he uses guns for a moment. Like they make it a moment when he first uses that gun. And even the introduction, like my favorite colorful villain, probably the last guy who had the hallway fight. with because even the introduction of that guy like he's so much larger than life he's so eccentric and crazy but they set him up with the with the um prosthetic leg and that tells you right

Starting point is 00:18:12 away like you know this guy can take a hit so it take a lot of hits you can take a lot of hits and he's just going to keep coming so there there is this force of nature that just keeps coming Yeah, that guy had me saying, this dude is a bad ass too. He's crazy. Yeah. I wonder if there are any fun facts here. This is Jason Statham's fifth film in the last year. That's it?

Starting point is 00:18:40 Adam Clay's birthday. Oh, this is a fun fact from the FBI file is July 2667, which is Jason Statham's actual birthday. You didn't know that was his birthday? Oh, I didn't know. I didn't either. This sounds like. When Adam Clay excused up in the conversation, Agent Parker says, I have to take care of the hive. This sounds like he is taking care of his bees, but they said the first reference to his former world to protect society.

Starting point is 00:19:03 That's so funny. Most of this was shot in England, really? A lot of this. Oh, fascinating. I would have thought maybe they really did shoot in Massachusetts. No explanation of the old tech, especially the CRT computer monitor seen the film has ever offered. That is because the story was originally supposed to be said in 2003. Remember I was saying the computer?

Starting point is 00:19:21 I was like, this is weird. The computers seem like they're older tech. Yeah. before the idea was abandoned. However, as the art department had already started sourcing some of the hardware for budgetary reasons,

Starting point is 00:19:30 it decided just to keep in what they had already purchased. Oh, that's funny. I don't know. It kind of like worked for me. Kind of like added to the flavor of like they are so underground. You know,

Starting point is 00:19:39 that was, that was really interesting. But no, this was a fun, fun movie, man. I really liked it. Give me what I wanted. Keep scrolling down.

Starting point is 00:19:46 There's, I think there might be some more. Really? Yeah, keep going. Anything else? Oh, no. Oh, I thought that was, okay,

Starting point is 00:19:51 I thought there was. No, and they get more facts when a movie's been out a while longer. I forgot to say. But yeah, no, overall good stuff. I hope this movie is a lesson for the pieces of shits out there that do these kinds of things and scam people

Starting point is 00:20:05 that if you ever do something like this, an actual beekeeper will come after you. So don't even try it. I want to go to an actual beekeeper and see what's up. I want to be like, I know who you really are, beekeeper. Like, do you want some honey, Craig? I don't know what you're trying to say here, I hope there are beekeepers out there who have a serious passion for their job

Starting point is 00:20:28 who did not see the trailer for this and saw, oh, beekeeper, finally, a movie that does a story about beekeepers. I can't wait and then see this. They watch it's like, this is an era of all my life. Which organization do I need to choose? This is a false representation of me in my profession. Now people who get scammed are going to call me. This is not what I do. I've been in and asked to do a lot of things that are not part of what my job entails me to do now.

Starting point is 00:20:58 All right, guys. Good job, David Air. Awesome. And Jason Stathen. What did you think of the beekeeper? Leave your thoughts down below. I think they can do a sequel that goes in a while. I would love a sequel.

Starting point is 00:21:10 I really would. I really love a sequel. It's like an eight out of ten for me. Yeah, I would say that too. Even two, if they, a sequel I'd be down for, even if they showed us a prequel, just what led him to getting to where we started the film? I'd be down for either or I'm just so down for this universe The beekeeper universe

Starting point is 00:21:27 Yeah I'm like 7.5 to 8 at 10 somewhere there Where are you? I'd probably go 7.8 out of 10 Okay yeah I'm like 7.4 If I'm looking for that's solid So yeah 7.797

Starting point is 00:21:41 Damn it Oh beat me again Yeah yeah Anyway What'd you guys think Leave her thoughts down below I had a really fun time And I would absolutely love a sequel

Starting point is 00:21:51 We'll talk with you guys soon.

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The Reel Rejects - THE BEEKEEPER (2024) MOVIE REVIEW!!

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