One man's campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.
01 Apr The Beekeeper (2024)
Unchoreographed
Say what you will about the Wick movies, but at least the standard was on tradecraft. Wick’s movements through bad guys was designed within the scope of actual martial arts and arms training. I think that is the standard now for western fight scenes; it has long been the essential lower threshold in Japan, Korea, Thailand and Indonesia.
The sequences in this project are simply thunk and bat. I’m not a student of these things, martial arts, but if we have one of the most elite fighters on the planet, he has to have some technique. Without it, I see Three Stooges done fast.
In Mission Impossible, we know why the organisation exists — in fact Nick Fury’s agency (whatever it was), and even the Men in Black; all have some reason to be. Even the forces in Wick make a sort of sexy sense. Here, the world building is flattened to a simple statement, and one that makes no sense. Someone needs to champion the beekeepers but they just exist.
It is not a religious cult, but a government one.
We’re to believe that some doof built a company that supplies core intelligence to the security community (strike one), and that he turned it to some sort of mining for preying on old people (strike two), and that the president, or CIA, or FBI has no inkling.
And that the metaphor goes as deep as a retirement avocation. Is the punk woman with the gatling gun an apiarist?
This is just thunks and bumps with music.
Posted in 2024
Ted’s Evaluation — 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
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