The Beekeeper (2024 film)
The film follows a retired clandestine human intelligence operative who sets out for revenge after his kind-hearted landlady becomes the victim of a phishing scam that steals millions of dollars from a charity she runs.Wallace gathers a group of ex-special forces personnel and briefs them that the Beekeepers are a highly-skilled and dangerous clandestine human intelligence organization, tasked with protecting the United States while operating above and beyond governmental jurisdiction.Derek's refusal to evacuate the Nine Star employees causes confusion that enables Adam to defeat the FBI's SWAT team, infiltrate the building, and wipe out Wallace's men.[15] In the United States and Canada, The Beekeeper was released alongside Mean Girls and The Book of Clarence, and was projected to gross $17–19 million from 3,303 theaters in its opening weekend.The website's consensus reads: "Cheerfully undemanding and enjoyably retrograde, The Beekeeper proves that when it comes to dispensing action-thriller justice, Statham hasn't lost his sting.[24] Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert praised the film's various aspects, including its range of villains, but regretted: "It's a real shame that The Beekeeper isn't the righteous trash masterpiece that it keeps threatening to turn into."[25] John Nugent of Empire magazine said that Statham is "as gruffly convincing as he usually is (though it's 20 minutes before he's even allowed to kick any ass)" but called the action scenes "horribly inconsistent" and noted that "you do have to put up with quite a lot of stuff about bees".