Sometimes you see a movie trailer and you pray....pray HARD...that it will live up to the hype because the theme of it really resonates with you. So when I watched the trailer of The Beekeeper on YouTube a while ago, I have to admit I was pretty pumped for its release.
Being a beekeeper myself, you have a tendency to gravitate to anything related ( songs, art, trinkets, clothing....really, everything is on the table here). So I ponied up for some tickets, remortgaged my house for a large popcorn and sat down for and hour and a half of anticipated joy.
If you are a huge action movie fan, or a Jason Statham fan, you are going to enjoy this movie. If you are neither, or ambivalent, but came here for the beekeeping you will need to decide what you hate more; This Movie or Yourself for paying 26.00 for sixty cents worth of corn and margarine.
Lets Dig in:
(mild spoilers throughout as depicted in official trailer)
Jason Statham plays a simple hardworking man who keeps bees and rents a barn from a kind old lady. Kind old lady falls for a vicious phone scam (something becoming all too common these days!) which ruins the charity she founded, and wipes out her savings. This being more than she can bear, she ends her life.
Our beekeeping buddy decides that this is unacceptable and proceeds to unleash hell apiarist style on the whole organization of life savings stealing fraudsters. As he moves his way up the phone scamming hierarchy, it seems that the layers of corruption reach to higher and higher levels of authority and our hero intends on pruning root and branch.
What? You didn't know all beekeepers are badass vengeful dispensers of righteous fury? Well.....we like to think we are but Jason Statham is a part of this secret group of justice dispensing heros called...."Beekeepers" that do this kind of thing every time they zip to the store for milk and bread.
The film is gratuitously peppered all through with beekeeping references, (most of them clumsy and tacked onto the scene) but not much substance to the actual activity. It's like they enrobed our hero with a cool, niche profession and built an action movie around it.
Neat, but shallow to be honest. Also, there is a scene where our Beekeeper fast balls a kilo of honey into a bad guys head and knock him out cold. That.....well that's pretty accurate but in another scene he uses a jar of honey like a molotov cocktail and that's just absurd regardless of how cool it looked. Beekeeping terminology is seeded throughout many scenes needed or not, and the puns get sickeningly sweet as the movie progresses. ( See what I did there? )
So if you want to watch a tremendous beatdown of a pack of sleazy phone scammers then this is definitely worth the ticket. As action movies go this is one that will not disappoint.
As far as the beekeeping theme of it, it's a trendy tack on that does.....work....in a way. But as a professional, I was left wishing the script writers and director would have done a little better research than reading up on it on wikipedia. (pss Hollywood: 204 612 2337!)
Build Back Butter
Movie review out of the way, let's wash away the taste of overpriced popcorn with a dirt simple way to make a vastly superior taste sensation and save a whole lotta money in the process. Since most of you wont be seeing this in theatres, please do let us know what your snack of choice was when you eventually decided to stream The Beekeeper!
What You'll Need
- 1/3 cup of popcorn kernels
- 2 Tablespoons of oil (Sunflower, Grapeseed, Vegetable, or Canola)
- 2 tablespoons of butter
- 2 tablespoons of honey
- A pinch of salt
- Want it Spicy? 2 Tablespoons of Sriracha or a 1/2 Teaspoon of Cayenne (optional)
