steve mookie kong<p><strong>The Beekeeper (2024)</strong></p><p>I am not sure if the movie was supposed to be funny, but it did get a lot of laughs from my son and I.</p><p>The action scenes were genuinely thrilling and creative. Statham is still a one man army and that is a-okay with me. There were some over-the-top sequences and characters to match the over-the-topness (like the one legged mercenary).</p><p>The basics of the scam that starts off the movie is familiar from what I see on YouTube.</p><p>I’ll watch anything with Jason Statham in it. He’s his own genre and he’s awesome. He's great in this movie playing the same character he plays in his other movies -- and that is a benefit, not a drawback.</p><p>The daughter/FBI agent is super annoying. The character is terribly written and she has to be one of worst FBI agents in the field -- like how she deals with the person visiting her mom at the start of the movie. The actor that portrays her (Emmy Raver-Lampman) is overacting also -- in a "hey look, I'm on the bigscreen" way -- and that definitely does not help.</p><p>Josh Hutcherson is fun to watch as the smarmy CEO of the scam company. I was confused why Jeremy Irons, Minnie Driver and Phylicia Rashad signed up for this movie -- but I guess everyone needs a paycheck from time to time?</p><p>I was disappointed by how quickly the movie ended and how it wraps up the story. But, I wasn't here for the story. Overall, my son and I were both super entertained by the movie for its action. Everything else was just there to carry the action along. My son called the movie dumb, but he rated it 7 out of 10 for the action and the silly entertainment.</p><p>My rating is 7 out of 10.</p><p>Streamed on Amazon Prime Video.</p><p><a href="https://mookiesplace.com/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Movies</span></a> <a href="https://mookiesplace.com/tags/thebeekeeper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheBeekeeper</span></a> <a href="https://mookiesplace.com/tags/amazonprimevideo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmazonPrimeVideo</span></a></p>