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The Beekeeper (2024)
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris defend the hive and discuss The Beekeeper, which came out on Blu-ray and 4K.
Jason Statham stars as "Adam Clay," a former operative known as a Beekeeper and who is also a literal honey-producing beekeeper. When his elderly friend, played by Phylicia Rashad, takes her own life after being robbed of her life savings in a phishing scam, Clay uses all of his formidable skills to kill his way to the top of the scam for revenge. Josh Hutcherson douches it up as the head of Danforth Enterprises, the company behind the phishing schemes. Zach and Chris discuss how Statham should have used more bee based attacks, the movie's attempts to be John Wick, the possibility of other Beekeeper style organizations and more.
Along with the physical release, you can rent or buy The Beekeeper across various digital platforms, including Vudu and Amazon. Next week, we are diving into The Fall Guy TV series's first episode to prepare for the Ryan Gosling/Emily Blunt reboot hitting theaters.
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Transcript
Introduction and Weekly Topics
00:00:03
Speaker
Welcome to the Everything Action Cast, the official podcast of EverythingAction.com. Hello and welcome to the Everything Action Cast podcast for the week of April 22nd, 2024. I'm your host Zach. I'm your co-host Chris.
Jason Statham's Recent Releases
00:00:27
Speaker
And yeah, this week we are defending the hive and talking about the Jason Statham movie, The Beekeeper, which is out this week on Blu-ray and 4K for all you physical media fans. I obviously came out in theaters in January this year. It's one of the biggest hits in 2024. It's one of the top 10 movies worldwide so far. I'm sure once again this summer it's going to get knocked down, but right now it is one of the biggest hits.
00:00:55
Speaker
And, uh, I think like, definitely, you know, Jason has had a, he had a bit of a slump, uh, recently, like, I mean, like, you still haven't seen it, but like, spells four is, was the worst view I saw last year. It is a train wreck. And, um, I'm trying to think of some, like, some of the other stuff he's been in recently, but was not like, not that great. Um, was fine, but wasn't like,
00:01:22
Speaker
It was it was it got sent so sidetracked with like this like weird like the weird under undersea corporation it's trying to mine the trench and there's like they're like aren't there sharks this movie like that's what you're like you're getting northern giant sharks just like focus weird like evil corporation and then like operation ruse de guerre was like operation fortune was weird like like I would say like the like the most Jason Statham e Jason Statham movie in recently was like Wrath of Man
The Beekeeper: Movie Overview
00:01:52
Speaker
That was like two years ago. Yeah, 2021. But the Peakeeper, I mean, this is Peakeeper is like peak Statham. Like you're talking like, yo, you're talking about like, you know, crank transporter style, Jason Statham. Because it's agent. Yeah, it's insane. He's like an unstoppable killing machine. It's ridiculous. So. Yeah, one of the things the movie doesn't tell you that essentially it's a slasher movie and it's just Jason Statham slasher.
00:02:21
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, even by Jason Statham levels, he is so overpowered and unstoppable in this movie. I think the worst he gets... He only finally gets injured in the last 10 minutes. But other than that, he does not get a scratch on him. No one can stop him. Yeah, he pretty much is...
00:02:49
Speaker
like a shadow that comes out of the dark in a lot of points. And yeah, like you think he's gonna not use weapons for a while, but then later on, like he just has a gun now and now he's even more unkillable.
00:03:04
Speaker
Yeah, they really make a point early on, every fight for the first half of the movie, he disarms everyone, and then makes a point, dropping all the ammo, their guns, throwing their guns away. And then for the final action scene, it's like, I'm going to use guns now.
Plot and Character Dynamics
00:03:26
Speaker
But yeah, let's get to the basic premise, which is Jason Statham is a beekeeper, which literally he's a beekeeper. He manages bees and makes honey. But he's also a beekeeper, which is a secret agent working for this agency that operates outside of all known law enforcement and government agencies. And if anything, it's going to affect
00:03:54
Speaker
I'm trying to I know if it's global or just like the U.S. because like because like Jeremy Irons mentions like it's just like the nation like the U.S. But I'm not sure if like the Beekeeper is like a global group or just like a U.S. group. I think it's a U.S. group because they don't have sanction in the U.S. Yeah. It wouldn't make sense to send a Beekeeper abroad because like they're only like
00:04:23
Speaker
covert in America so they can get away with certain things, but yeah, I don't know. Even though Jason Statham isn't American, he's blatantly from another country. Which one of the best lines, or one of the funniest lines, is when he's talking to Amy Raver-Lampman, who's an FBI agent, and then he's like, do I detect a bit of the British Isles in your accent? It's like, of course you fucking do. It's Jason Statham.
00:04:52
Speaker
it's another movie it reminds me of like arnold action movies where they need to explain where he's from you know it's a lot of action movies in the last 10 years the hero has been a american you know so they don't have to explain where they've been before even if the american hero is in another country it's just sort of like alluded that they were military a u.s military train
00:05:21
Speaker
But with Jason Statham, none of that makes sense. It's just like, Oh, are you an ex SAS? Are you like Shaw? Like is this Shaw? I saw the fact that it's like, they're making it seem like, Oh, you have a vague British accent. It's like, but it's like Jason Statham talking to me in his like most Jason Statham, even Jason Statham. His low grunting accent. And yeah, obviously they're going to say, Oh, okay. Like.
00:05:51
Speaker
Were you like British special forces? It's like, no, I'm a beekeeper. It's like, that's even more confusing. A lot of people don't know what beekeepers are. Yeah. Well, so yeah, so there's a beekeeper, apparently, who operates by the like, they operate totally autonomously. And then if any sort of system that like, you know, are complex systems that like, you know, finance or
00:06:17
Speaker
government or anything like tip our country into chaos. They step in and correct the issue, which is protecting the hive, which the hive is like the US. So it'd be interesting if this world does get built up where this is just the American beekeepers and then there are international
00:06:43
Speaker
to go full kingsmen and there's like like the british beekeepers where there's like a different name or something i don't know what like beekeepers are so like just ambiguous it's not like uh the cattle ranches the the shepherds like yeah i see okay yeah the sheep shepherds yeah okay just that's the british versions like oh i used to be a shepherd before i became a beekeeper
00:07:09
Speaker
Who's naming these secret divisions? Also, I think we brought this up in the past when the trailer was coming out with a beekeeper. What are the odds that a beekeeper is an actual secret agent beekeeper? It's such a weird thing that they would recommend not for him to do it. Or is it hiding in plain sight?
00:07:30
Speaker
I can't tell if Jason Statham was just like, I really like bees. I'm going to be a beekeeper. Because we meet the new beekeeper. Because Jason Statham is retired. He's a retired beekeeper. And then we meet the new beekeeper later on. But then there's a point where Jason goes to the new beekeeper's headquarters or lair. And there's bee hives outside of that too. So it's just like, is this whole organization is built around actual beekeeping? But then they're also like the beekeepers.
00:08:01
Speaker
And then they also they also have like handbooks for like beekeeping. It's like a guide to beekeeping. So I don't know if that was his X hangout maybe. I'm not sure if it's like if it was his or like because he had to cut off the like the new beekeeper's finger to get into like to get in. But he knew where to go. Yeah. That's I feel like maybe that was his X hangout.
00:08:26
Speaker
I'm sure the beekeepers probably have caches all over the place. There's probably beekeeper armories everywhere. So we'll get into it, but let's go back to the beginning, where the movie literally starts with Jason Statham beekeeping.
Film Opening and Character Background
00:08:43
Speaker
And I thought it would be subtle, but it's not. If you think it's going to be some subtle movie where
00:08:52
Speaker
the title doesn't really happen or there's no action. It's like, yeah, it's not one of those movies where it's like dinosaur, but it's not about dinosaurs. It's like, like he's a beekeeper. Literally he's a beekeeper. He's making honey. He's gonna hang out with his retired school teacher in her barn.
00:09:16
Speaker
Yeah, Felicia Rashad, he's renting space in her barn so he can tend to his bees and make honey. And they're friends. And then she's like, hey, I'll make you dinner. And then he's like, oh, all right, I'll bring you honey. But then Felicia Rashad gets one of those pop-ups on our computer where it's like, your computer's being hacked. Call this number. What website was she going on?
00:09:46
Speaker
I mean, I've seen that pop up for just like trying to search on Google. Like we click a big Google link, you get there. But I get she's not computer illiterate, but they really try to drive to the point where she's super like gullible and.
00:10:05
Speaker
I don't know. I don't I don't I don't know if anyone who I can't figure out if people want this movie if they don't have if they have no idea how scamming works or they just like don't give a crap and it's like we're gonna make it sexy crazy like because like obviously this would be like like if this is real life it'd be just like people like people like a dark dimly lit like Indian like hive of computers like trying to scam people out of money oh yeah yeah this would not be an American company that almost looks like a
00:10:35
Speaker
It's like Wolf of Wall Street. It's like the Wolf of Wall Street meets like e-gaming, where it's like this giant neon lit, and then they're like throwing stuff at like, they have like scores going off, and buzzers, and graphics. I would not get any work done if I was in that pit. It's too dark. It's also very loud. It definitely makes sense that
00:11:02
Speaker
If this was a scamming thing, it'd be in India and just full of nonsense. Well, it makes sense in this universe if Josh Hutcherson's running it, because his character is just a raging douchebag. So this is like everyone who works on a room is also a raging douchebag. But is that a requirement? It's just everyone in that company from, I guess, an executive level to just the
00:11:32
Speaker
the actual drones that call people like the cold callers. They're all like douchebag bros. They're all like crypto bros. I like the intro because it really shows you that it's making fun of that new age tech world and then the luxury
00:11:57
Speaker
of just being like scammers. I did enjoy that. Josh Ledgerson, I swear to God, I think he's in his late 20s, but I think he's supposed to be like 24 in this movie. I think he's supposed to say he's 28. Oh, he's 28? OK. Yeah, I think he's supposed to say I'm 28. I don't know. That makes anything better. I don't know. It's just funny to think that.
00:12:25
Speaker
He still has such a kid face. But he does such a great job of just being so, so hateable. You just want him to die in the worst way possible. I think Joss, I just said in real life, is actually a nice guy. Probably, yeah. In this movie, you really just want to punch him in the face. Yeah.
00:12:49
Speaker
And, but yeah, but yeah, Felicia Rashad gets scammed and, uh, they steal all her money, including like,
Inciting Incident and Action Begins
00:12:55
Speaker
she was like holding the money for a charity. It was like $2 million that she was like in charge of. And so she loses all her money and then she kills herself with a gun that she somehow, she had a gun for some reason, even though she's a retired school teacher.
00:13:18
Speaker
And then J-State subbles it, and then that's when we get introduced like Emmy Raver Lampin, who's like Felicia Schott's daughter, and she's also an FBI agent, which... Why wouldn't Felicia Schott call her FBI agent daughter and be like, hey, someone stole all my money? Like... Yeah. Her first thing to do was load up a gun. Yep. She's like, well, this is the only way out.
00:13:43
Speaker
The FBI has financial crime divisions. I'm sure Verona could talk to someone in financial crimes or investigate herself or figure out what's going on. Her daughter works for the FBI. She never thinks to get the FBI or help or something.
00:14:09
Speaker
I think that's just an interesting thing. You know, if they didn't have that connection to the FBI, I feel like it would make sense where she's kind of like the end of her rope. Because her daughter seems like a okay FBI agent and very like technological modern.
00:14:31
Speaker
I don't know. I just feel like, uh, I think the, the answer is there would, there wouldn't be a movie. There wouldn't be a movie. Yeah. There wouldn't be, there wouldn't be any reason for you to say like going to his rampage. I mean, but I feel like he was just waiting for an excuse too. This guy that was like, kind of like that John Wick first fight where he is kind of rusty and then he gets better and better. This was like, he went in with like a plan of attack of burning the building, acting all confident.
00:15:01
Speaker
thinking he knew exactly what to do, because he's done it before. Yeah. Well, he had his special beekeeper phone in one of his beehives. And then he gets the favor from the operators of the beekeepers, the name of the address of the scammers, Scamflicher Rashad.
00:15:28
Speaker
The FBI can't find these guys, but you guys can, right? And he was like, sure, give me five minutes. Here you go. Here's the address. All they had to do was just Google and then probably get another scam. Because they were able to rip off a lot of money if they're able to do that constantly and then also have a chain of it.
00:15:53
Speaker
Yeah, they're always, they're always speaking on numbers. I think they're like, Josh Richardson at one point says like each office makes like $9 million or something. And then like he has like 20 of them or something. So it's like some, it's like some huge massive like scam. And he's also using CIA algorithm data mining code to like target specific people. So that was interesting. Cause I think it's brought up at the end where
00:16:23
Speaker
either he bought the data or Michael, um, what's his face? Uh, I think, well, I think, I think he got it from Jeremy Irons. I think Jeremy Irons used to be the CIA, like the director of the CIA. But he just gave them the algorithm that lets you target vulnerability. Like instead of like, I guess, is they kind of do that now where they can kind of figure out like potential terrorists.
00:16:57
Speaker
I would have loved that closer in the beginning of the movie or the middle because you find that out good yet
00:17:10
Speaker
Well, there's some, like, there's some mention of like German is like, Oh, is this your data mining like meta bullshit or whatever? Like you should know better. Jeremy iron should know what the right term is. It's his system. Yeah. Well, he says like, Jeremy is, it's just like, he's just like the head of security now for Josh Hutcherson. Yeah. Yeah. That part I got like.
00:17:35
Speaker
But Jeremy Irons in this movie, I thought he would do something even more sinister or whatever. He really doesn't do much. He is like the Michael Nyquist from John Wick, where he's the guy who just like, when he finds out it's a beekeeper, he's just like, oh fuck, it's a beekeeper. You're dead. You're fucking dead, Josh Hutcherson. Make your funeral arrangements. That's something I can do to stop this.
00:17:58
Speaker
And he has, he has like two, like, it's kind of like Michael Nyquist, like Baba Yaga, kind of like style like speeches, like, second one's behind the best one where he's like talking like he's like tier one guys he hires, he's just like,
00:18:11
Speaker
Yeah, he's nothing like you. You guys are tier one, Navy Seals, Delta Force. You're all pussies. He killed him such an uninspiring speech to that group. He would kill every single one of you in this room. And if we throw enough of you guys at him, maybe he'll stop him. Yeah, there's a lot of like John Wick style, like they're building up Jason Statham.
00:18:41
Speaker
Yeah, they build up his allure, but then they don't explain anything about the organization. Yeah. We'll get into this now, where we still can't figure out if, like, Jeremy Iron knows that the current beekeeper that's on retainer is, like, crazy.
00:18:56
Speaker
Well, everyone knows the Beekeepers exist, but then they also kind of don't know anything about them. It's just like, oh yeah, the Beekeepers exist. We don't have no idea what they do or how to stop them. We can't control them, but we know they're out there.
00:19:13
Speaker
Cause like, cause many driver who shows this to me for like two scenes. Cause she's like, she's the new CIA director. And then she somehow is able to call the beekeepers. And then they're like, the beekeepers are apparently like, yeah, we'll send our new beeper to kill the old beekeeper. So she could call. So you can apparently call the beak, the head of the beekeepers, which we never, but we never see who that is. It's just like, Oh yeah. There's the heads of the beekeepers. So the Queens, maybe. Yeah.
00:19:45
Speaker
And then yeah, I think we mentioned it, but it seems like there's only one beekeeper at a time because Jason Statham retired and then the new beekeeper came up. Who is not good at her job? No. She is straight out of like John Wick or like Fast and Furious. Like she's just like totally incongruous like everything else in the movie of like
00:20:04
Speaker
neon purple raincoat and miniguns like a like a souped-up truck like yeah yeah she comes in as a one-person army but is super incompetent too yeah like her state of kills her with honey i don't know honey was flammable i think yeah definitely at least that's too fat like i think honey is very flammable holy shit
00:20:29
Speaker
But I love that we definitely need more of that. He needed more Jason Statham uses like bee stuff to kill people. So let's put this out there early. This movie needed more bees. He should have had like he should have had a jar of bees and he just throws the people. I thought so you look at the poster where he's covered in bees. Yeah. That's weird ass Fencer beekeeper outfit he wears. Yeah.
00:20:55
Speaker
I thought that would be more. I thought he was going to like distract things or or kind of take out electronics with like an army of bees, sort of like an ant man style. He should. Yeah, he should. He should have like walked like like walked maybe in like the like the final battle or something like he like, you know, people like covered themselves in bees. Like he should like walked in like covered in bees just like unleashes them like.
00:21:17
Speaker
Or like Batman Begins style, like he has some way of summoning bees, like he has some sort of transmitter, like a frequency or something. Literally at the end of the movie, he was gonna have like a queen bee in his pocket, and then like a swarm of bees was gonna follow that, or a pheromones trail. Wouldn't that make sense? Wouldn't that be like a little visual? Yeah. But instead, we don't even have that.
00:21:43
Speaker
I'm not saying it's not great, but it definitely could have used more B things. But Jason Satham makes Upward by dropping B references left and right at almost every conversation. Well, you could definitely play a drinking game where every time he says, like, I'm protecting the hive, like, I gotta protect the hive.
00:22:05
Speaker
He says every single person he meets, he's like, I gotta pick the hive. If he's trying to keep it secret that he's a beekeeper, like an elite agent, he is failing. It's like, hey, the guy who's talking about bees constantly, is he part of this weird group called the beekeepers?
00:22:27
Speaker
What are the odds that the guy who keeps talking about bees is a beekeeper government agent? I mean, not even government agent, like everyone starts finding out. It's not like, um, I mean, cause like the FBI and now everyone knows what a beekeeper is. And even then the hires of the FBI don't believe the beekeeper story. It seems like only, it seems like only the CAA is like actually knows that they exist and then everyone's kind of like finds out
00:22:55
Speaker
throughout the movie of like, oh, there's this weird group. Like, there goes the lore. And it's like, is it, I feel like it's like at least halfway through where Jerry is like, finally is like, I'm gonna, let me explain to you what the beekeepers are. This whole monologue about how the beekeepers got formed or why they got formed.
00:23:16
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I didn't mind, but I didn't need more of that. No, I need it was, what's the structure? Who the hell were the computer, the computer system set up by? Like where were that located? And why are they using like old computers? They're using like, there's like Cold War computers.
00:23:37
Speaker
Give me more of that. Granted, it's the same thing with the John Wick coins where they're just more symbolic and you're not really supposed to know or care about that, but it does play a big role in how the beekeepers are actually able to maintain their stuff.
00:23:59
Speaker
more of the the like allure of why he's deadly but yeah like i get why they were needed to keep a system regulated that's fine like that like
00:24:13
Speaker
Maybe the sequel will get like if there is a sequel, which it seems like it never was like just how well it did the box office, but like maybe the sequel, like we'll get more like maybe he'll have to go to like your headquarters or something or like targeting him. Like it's like, it's like he went, he went to rogue, like we had to stop him and then he's like, go and like kill all the, he has to destroy the beekeepers themselves or something. I could see that. I could see where basically he has to burn down
00:24:43
Speaker
the original structure because it's too corrupt. And then maybe like, you know, John Wick 2 definitely, you know, explored way more of like, more of like the structure of the world and stuff. So maybe like Beekeeper 2 could like explore more of like the Beekeeper world too, like just like into like a little bit more like what the hell they are and how they work. I wonder if instead of we mentioned international spy agencies, I wonder if there's another agency
00:25:08
Speaker
and they're called like the gardeners and they're the ones that they're the ones that if the beekeepers go rogue they're the they control the beekeepers yeah there's a group above the beekeepers yeah just like another league um and it's just even more cryptic where it's like oh there can never actually be like
00:25:30
Speaker
One gardener, you know, it's something where the murder hornets. Yeah, the gardeners actually made up of a bunch of AI robots. We had to call on the murder hornets to kill the beekeeper. Another thing I brought up was Jason Satham's beekeeper outfit, which is not a normal beekeeper outfit. I think it just not what I'm used to seeing.
00:25:53
Speaker
No, it's it's literally a fencing outfit. They just like and they put like a beekeeper design on it, but it's it's for fencing. I looked at that and I was like, that is two form thing for a beekeeper outfit. And he looks too badass in it. And it's almost if you told me that wasn't a fencing outfit, it just looks like such a steampunk attire that you know, something from the 19th century.
00:26:17
Speaker
in a black and white photo about some guy trying to attempt the space travel. I don't, I don't think he ever like, he isn't fighting it though. He just like, he's, cause he's always wearing like his like flannel coat and like, it's like, he's like, he looks like a farmer or something, but like he's just like, yeah, he never like fights in his like beekeeper outfit. I, yeah, I wanted him in the beekeeper outfit and then it probably scenarios where that would be the appropriate attire.
00:26:42
Speaker
I mean, he could have been wearing it in like that garage, like the barn flight, like the one time to use it. Like he was literally at his bar where he was like, he's like beekeeping. You ever see the movie Homefront? Yeah. He's basically the same. Yep. Yep. Oh, man. Josh, Josh, Josh, Josh, Josh, and James Franco for that movie Teaming Up. Was it James Franco named Gator in that movie? Yeah.
00:27:13
Speaker
with like an insane southern accent. Because it was like it was like outside, it was like Louisiana. You know, you could tie in all those offshoot Jason Statham movies and make your own Mad Max story where that's exactly what Alex Clay was. He was something happened. Adam Clay. Yeah, he was this and then you know, code name change and family and then you lost the family. He does bring it up in this movie that he once had a wife and kid.
00:27:42
Speaker
and then he lost it all. We don't know how. He never gets into it. But I assume something bad happens. I mean, that's why he retired. Yeah. You want to talk about
00:28:00
Speaker
Hmm, our favorite kind of stunts? Well, I just mentioned like the the garage fight is awesome. We're like like like the the guy who runs the office that scan Felicia Rashad, who is like, I think you said you looked like Matt Pat and I said he looks like an evil Andrew Garfield.
00:28:21
Speaker
Yep, just some snormy guy with a haircut. And he so yeah, he's apparently somehow connected to the Bob. But then just like, Hey, take care of this yourself. Like I can't deal with this. And then he gets like a bunch of random dudes and they like there's like driving around like trying to see like where everyone they scab lives and then they just have to stumble on Jason Statham.
00:28:42
Speaker
And he just effortlessly murders them all in the barn. This movie has some really awesome creative deaths.
Innovative Action Sequences
00:28:52
Speaker
He takes one of the guy's shotgun barrels off and he stabs them in the throat with the shotgun barrel.
00:29:02
Speaker
He cuts, he cuts off like evil integrations, like fingers and like leaves him. I did find that funny because it's not like he killed, he straight up like did that. And that was just like saying that he just cuts his fingers and then walks away. Yeah. Just because he could. Well, you find out later that he was like fouling him because he wanted to, he's trying to get more information about who he walked, worked for then like, and then drive, then send him off a bridge hatch to a truck.
00:29:35
Speaker
think you could survive a fall like that and that's like I mean I know the guy's dead like that in the movie I mean I mean even even if you survive the impact of the water like he was like attached like he was like locked into like like a uh was like a oh he was strapped like a like a yeah straps and a truck so you know I was able to drop a truck
00:29:59
Speaker
But that was like insanely hard impact into the water, I'm sure. That didn't kill him like he would have been dead pretty quickly afterwards. So I do like that in this movie Jason Seatham is kind of just like an anti-hero. It's not like he's trying to get answers, it's just he just murdering his way up the line.
00:30:21
Speaker
Uh, he really tries not to injure cops, but he'll mess up anyone that isn't, that is like, um, ex militant or something. Well, I guess if they're not like directly working for like the companies, then he'll like maybe, maybe try to not kill them. But then, but then he like, he like kills like hat, like most like the SWAT team, like the boss, the SWAT team that comes in after him.
00:30:47
Speaker
I don't think that was, um, the FBI SWAT team. I think that team was the. No, I think, I think, I think he took, took out most of like the, like the, like the, like, like Jeremy Irons, like, uh, tier one guys. Cause like, I think those are off the black ops guys. No, I mean, I did it to watch you. I just watched like an hour ago, but like, I think that was like, there's a, there's a group of cops that like SWAT guys that came in with like, uh, the FBI guys.
00:31:17
Speaker
and they got an elevator and then there was like, oh shit, like he's like blowing this elevator up. No, no, that's, that is part of the tier one, the group. Maybe either way, let's get those. Go back and watch it. Like he, he tries and he injures the crap out of everyone that is like an actual like government or, um,
00:31:44
Speaker
law enforcement. Yeah, he kills all these black ops guys. Yeah. Oh, go. It's such a throwaway scene for what he murders all these people. I actually thought this one tier one guy that's in the thing where they have like a like a dialogue and exchange in the hallway. Yeah. I thought that guy was going to be like a recurring villain, but he gets super like early in that fight. Yeah.
00:32:12
Speaker
Yeah, they said it about like, oh, this is good. This guy's like, is he gave Jason the trouble? It's like they're fighting like a minute and he just like smashes his head with like a fire extinguisher and like kills him. I thought, oh, maybe this is the first fight. They'll be off a rematch and nope. No, he gets replaced with an Evie more insane villain later on. I do like that. It's not a super gimmicky thing, but it's a different type of villain.
00:32:43
Speaker
I don't know what the right term is, but it's a... handy, capable villain? Yeah. Lazarus, the New Zealand... It's like they bring a mercenary rugby team, basically. They feel like they're like rugby guys, but they also are mercenaries. I thought it was a South African mercenary group. Yeah, some sort, yes. Someone just heard his nose, or hired, or something.
00:33:11
Speaker
It just seems weird because you can't go from a tier one to then just arguably a worse team just because they look so under equipped. And they're all, it's like there's a cowboy, it's like they're also like a collectively, it's like a cowboy guy and a bunch of like a random mercenary guys. I think there's guys wearing soccer jerseys. Yeah. That's why it says it's like an evil mercenary rugby team or something.
00:33:38
Speaker
But apparently this Lazarus guy, he said he killed a beekeeper once, but that's why he lost his leg because he barely did it. Yeah, he said he got lucky, which I get, but then I don't because the previous beekeeper just didn't see him set on fire.
00:33:57
Speaker
Relatively easy. Mm-hmm. Well, I mean just and I mean everyone compared to a state that was like a relatively easy kill Just like unstoppable That's why I kind of wish there was a XP keeper or someone on the same equal footing It's just more overwhelming odds what slows them down
00:34:21
Speaker
Well, I mean, yeah, I mean, yeah, this Lazarus guy is like the only one that really gives him like, like their fight, their fight is like the only one that actually has like, is like, has a struggle a little bit. And then finally gets injured when he gets like stabbed, gets cut in the arm and stabbed in the gut. And then that's like, but that's like an hour, like 30 minutes into like, where before he has not got a single scratch on him.
00:34:44
Speaker
So I do like that Lazarus is like a hard to kill person. And like his name, it just keeps coming back. Oh, he died when he got shot in the face. But then it's like, oh, he lived. No, that was great. And then, yeah. And then, yeah, that foul fight is so brutal and like crazy. He keeps getting stabbed. He stabs him with like a piece of glass and a knife. And he's like using brass knuckles on him. And he just keeps coming back. It'd be funny if he comes back on a seagull.
00:35:15
Speaker
Yeah. That was an awesome fight. It was. I still don't like how Jason Seatham doesn't really sneak in this movie. He just sort of walks into places and his plan is to get caught like half the time. Well he kind of does like a like Agent 47 hitman kind of thing where he like pretends to be like a Secret Service agent.
00:35:46
Speaker
Like once he's in, then he just changes it to like a suit, but then he gets caught. Did he know there was going to be a guy that looked exactly like him at the party with the exact same suit on? No. Because there's like a decoy guy that like, like, like, like, Emi Rayver-Lampman and, uh, Bobby Bandero are like, oh, it's him. And it turns out it's not him. He's wearing an exact, it's a bald guy with like the same suit on.
00:36:16
Speaker
It's just safe to say him like stunt double. Yeah. Um, no, they didn't plan that. That, that was definitely like a mission impossible thing where they're, they would have scoped it out and planned it. But no, this was just a coincidence. But then like he gets caught right after that. Yeah. So it's not even like a big decoy. It was just like, Oh, that took like a moment.
00:36:39
Speaker
But then he rigged all the Secret Service cars to explode. So that was the distraction he needed to run away. He's amazing at running away from people shooting at him. He just dodged gunfire. He doesn't even get behind cover. He just outruns bullets. So we brought up the fact that, OK, so I think he accidentally kills a few Secret Service agents. Oh, probably, yeah. Because he blows up that convoy. And there's casualties.
00:37:10
Speaker
Oh, we got to talk about like, so we're talking about Secret Service. The reason there's Secret Service is because probably like the best twist in the movie, like when I saw the theater was like, I was like, I want to like just like throw my fist in the air and like jump up and then I see because it was so stupid and ridiculous.
Major Plot Twist
00:37:25
Speaker
But like, we find out that Josh Hutcherst's mother is the president. Because like, because like, after the two year one guys fell, like you got to call your mother. We got to like, we got to be in her proximity.
00:37:42
Speaker
And there's also like, is no one doing fact checks in the president's like son of like, where's this guy making money and all that? Cause it's like, he's a celebrity, you know, he's easy. It thought I was like kind of like dumb to shock. I was like, huh, I didn't see that coming. He's like, he's like, he seems like he's like, well, I guess, I guess true range said like, he's like, he, he being him out of like the tabloids and I like like scandals and stuff. That's like part of his job. He's like hiding everything.
00:38:12
Speaker
Okay, that makes sense. They cover their tracks on that one. But yeah, he's like a crazy train wreck. He's doing coke and banging hookers. And then getting all this legal money. But yeah, their final option is because they've used up special ops guys that failed.
00:38:38
Speaker
We need to hide next to the President and then the Secret Service will protect us. I love how big a deal they're like, after Josh Hudson talks to his mother, she hangs up and he's like, hello Madam President. It's like the music that goes like da da da.
00:39:04
Speaker
Yeah, it's like they're like and then they were like, she was they were rich before. Like, like, she basically funded her entire campaign, because like the their fault, like the father was like, like a billionaire or whatever. But then they need like, Josh, she needed to get more money to fund the campaign more.
00:39:28
Speaker
I guess like it was the final push yeah does that mean that she was recent president like she just was elected I think I think they said that yes she was like just like like just took office or something gotcha and then and then they find out like oh all your campaign all your campaign money was like illegally fished from old people
00:39:54
Speaker
I mean, it kind of makes sense where he was able to do some counter politics and make his mom look good.
00:40:05
Speaker
That itself could have been its own movie, but they really just glanced that over. Yeah. To get back to business day with them, just getting pissed and getting closer. What I just love, like, the movie, the movie to that point was already, like, insane. And then they just, like, ramp it up to even more insane level, where it's like, now Jason is going to kill the president. Or he may even kill the president. Yeah. Yeah. That that was cool. It's really hard to see from that coming just because it doesn't feel that direction.
00:40:32
Speaker
But at some point, you kind of forget about the reason why he's doing this. And then even the daughter just sort of forgets. And then she's all about defects and getting Jason to save them. Well, I love Verona. They lampshade the president thing, killing the president thing, where she's like, hey, did you know there's these bees called queen slayers? And they rise up and kill the queen if there's bad offspring?
00:41:02
Speaker
What an interesting B fact. I thought maybe the mom was going to do something, but we don't see that. No, she's like, I'm going to tell the truth, no matter what it takes. And then the judge just loses it and pulls a gun and kills the assistant director to the FBI. And then it's holding his mother, the president hostage. That guy really puts himself in that corner,
00:41:31
Speaker
once he did that I was like I don't see this going in any way besides Jason safe of getting his justice you know what what I basically so is like I wish Josh touches the head like a more elaborate death just just for how big a like a just like an hateable douchebag he was you know move I wish he just had like a more like elaborate over the top death to go with it this is where the giant swarm of bees would have
00:41:56
Speaker
Yes. And then, and he was, and then Josh Hershey is allergic to bees. So he's just like, you're sort of swelling up. Just like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just where it's like, he goes, even honeybees have like deadly venom or like something he could just say about a bee pun and that would make it worth it. Yeah. He just, but Josh Hershey, he just gets shot in the head and then Jason Steven jumps to a window and escapes.
00:42:26
Speaker
I mean, there's more to that because the window also leads to like a cliffside view, which I was shocked because I forgot where they were. I thought they were at the White House, but they're not in the White House. No, they went to the president, the family beach house where they're having like that party is crazy that they're having. So I kind of I didn't pay attention to where they're having that party.
00:42:54
Speaker
Yeah. Then I, you know, then it's like, wait, the president is going to this house party like this mansion party that looks like just like a tick tock house. Yeah. I can't, I can't, I don't know if those are guests, the president or if like Josh Hutchinson divided all those people because they seem like more like Josh Hutchinson people.
00:43:10
Speaker
And it's like magicians and like, uh, you know, like showgirls and it's like, there's just like wandering people, like wandering through the houses, like breathing fire, like doing those, like, uh, one of those ball things, like the magic ball that makes it look like it's like, it's like, it's like,
00:43:32
Speaker
Yeah, it just seemed like the setting of that, they took that from a Hitman movie, like a Hitman video game scene. Just like all these zany entertainers and just generic background people.
00:43:45
Speaker
And I thought Jason Statham was going to have a bigger plan where he's going to keep changing up as the skies or make distractions. No, just rampage through everyone. No one can stop him. Secret Service SWAT can't stop him. South African mercenaries can't stop him.
00:44:07
Speaker
And that's why he fights like he's using guns, too. It's like, oh, right. He's insanely proficient with guns, too. He's not just like, he doesn't have to do hand-to-hand all the time. Yeah, that's why it really changes the fights where he uses his gun again. Otherwise, it's just fun hand-to-hand martial arts combat and kicking people off us like railings. But yeah, I mean, it's...
00:44:35
Speaker
David Ayer, he knows how to make like a fun action movie when there's no like fat on it. It's definitely something that if you told me this is the same guy that made the Suicide Squad, it's different just because it's not like a music video. It moves really fast. Yeah, this is this is definitely his best movie in like a while.
Director's Influence and Film Success
00:45:01
Speaker
Cause like his, his run, his run was like, it was like suicide squad bright in the tax collector. We're like last night was before this one. What was the tax collector? That was the one with like, uh, like Shia LaBeouf and George Lopez. Wait, what? There was, it was like Shia LaBeouf and then Bobby Soto. And they were like, they were tax collectors for the, like, like a Los Angeles crime boss.
00:45:28
Speaker
So they would go around and take the money people earned to get it to the gang. It was like a 2020 movie. So it was like a quarantine COVID release. Gotcha. Yeah, I've just never heard of that movie. So BK Resort is written by Kurt Wimmer, who directed Equilibrium.
00:45:57
Speaker
Okay. I get where the tone of bounds comes from then. But it's also crazy because he wrote Xmills 4, which was awful. And then he wrote this, which was like super fun and crazy. So it's like, what happened to Xmills 4? It just seems he couldn't fit in. Like he basically probably had one script and then he removed everything to make The Keeper and whatever was left.
00:46:20
Speaker
or he removed all the good parts and then made the beekeeper and he sold the rest to Expendables 4. I haven't seen that movie yet and I'm kind of afraid to just because I left it on a high note of like the first three and it's like I need to see the four to see where it goes. Yeah, if you look at Kurt Wimmer's like filmography, this is definitely beekeepers definitely more in the like law by citizen range because he also wrote that one.
00:46:53
Speaker
all by citizen is like plus or minus depending on how you feel certain yeah well i feel like that i feel like my city is like equally like yo crazy and like insane and like like all like like super elaborate plans that like dry boaters crazy plan and the like over time violence and but yeah kerber i mean kerber then it's like then you know it's like he wrote salt he wrote
00:47:21
Speaker
The total recall remake, which was, you know, terrible. The point break remake, which was terrible. He directed the chill in the corn remake, which I think you said you kind of liked Chris. I didn't mind it. It's not great. It, it has a lot of dumb things that I enjoyed, but it's also very like grounded. It's just sort of like these kid people that like, you're like, wow, they're, they are well-organized for what they're doing. Yeah.
00:47:50
Speaker
Um, but yeah, uh, this guy's writing styles everywhere then. It's like, yeah, his, yeah, his, his career is all over the place. I mean, it's hard to say good action now that I think about it because some parts of other movies, I'm just like, why even do this? Why? Like total recall the 2020, like 2012, maybe of one. Yeah. It's on TV.
00:48:22
Speaker
That was such a weird, like Robocop, the Robocop remake and then that was like back to back. It's like, we're just, we're just, we're just going to remake Paul Verhoeven movies, PG-13 and terrible. Yeah. Like you have to seek that out as a goal. Uh, but yeah, at least Beekeeper kind of is redemption for a lot of these people then.
00:48:48
Speaker
Yeah, like David Ayer gets to make a good movie, Kurt Wilmer gets to write a fun movie, so Jason Statham has like a classic Jason Statham movie. Like when you think of like Jason Statham, like, like The Beekeeper is definitely like in that like range of like, oh yeah, this is a Jason Statham ass Jason Statham movie.
00:49:14
Speaker
Yeah, it's just not silly, because I like Jason Zatham where he's a little silly with it. Oh, he is. He is. He is so deadly serious, which makes it even like it makes it funnier because like he's deadly serious and like ridiculous just happening around him. Or he's like serious. He's like doing this or just things like like lighting it like a crypto bro, like call center on fire with gasoline cans.
00:49:41
Speaker
And then forcing everyone to say I'm not going to rip people off anymore. Yeah, I do like how that movie kind of
00:49:55
Speaker
I mean, the beginning of the movie where he actually burns that place and there's actually like a death toll that keeps growing is interesting because it's not like, oh, he's a guy that he's fighting all these people, but there's no casualties. It's like, no, he's adding body counts. I think the first, the first way he burns on the building, it's like the four like seared you guys that he like beat the shit out of and left unconscious. Like they died. Yeah. They're just like unconscious with that building exploded.
00:50:24
Speaker
Yep. And no one offered to help. That was just the security group, you know, like they would say Jason's name is he's just like is black and white. He's like, well, you work for them. So you're able to. But I think I think definitely some of the people at the gas station that blows up or innocent people. I think they got out of the way. Oh, I think I think I think they said there's like seven bodies at the gas station. So
00:50:54
Speaker
Cause they keep like, Oh no, he had another seven to his body count. Well, okay. To be fair, they might've been killed by the other beekeeper who just showed up with a fucking Vulcan machine gun. Yeah. Which, which if I was just like on faith, like, Oh, is that a mini gun? That's weird. The explosion.
00:51:22
Speaker
How did the book survive? How did the beekeeping book survive perfectly intact? Wait, was that in the beekeeper's truck? No, right? It was in the new beekeeper's truck, I think. I can't remember if it's Jason Statham's or if it's a standard-issue beekeeper thing. It's like the new beekeeper had it on her or something. She didn't read it well enough to not know all these things. That's why it was her first day on the job or something. Yeah.
00:51:51
Speaker
It's got to be some sort of like code to like we're like the beekeeper guide It's gotta be like all of it's like it's like when we're talking about like, you know hive mains, right? We're actually talking about economics Or honey honey means Communication lines
00:52:19
Speaker
But yeah, The Beekeeper, super fun, super enjoyable. I've seen it twice now. It was fun both times. Yeah, I watched it recently to get prepared
Final Thoughts and Performance Highlights
00:52:38
Speaker
for this. I was generally surprised because the trailers didn't spoil anything about the second half of the movie.
00:52:45
Speaker
I think it's a definitely fun action movie that the trailer does a really good job on showing you the ridiculousness and then just the simple plot premise. But yeah, it was like a gem of like starting off the year.
00:53:04
Speaker
And I'm thinking like Wrath of Man was a lot more human drama. And then you learn about all these other characters. This was just straight up beekeeper, beekeeping puns. Let's just keep going. And then, you know, don't you hate the guy from the Hunger Games? Don't you hate crypto bros who like fish, fish old people. Which according to Statham is worse than stealing from a child.
00:53:35
Speaker
Which, I don't know, I don't know everything because Jason stayed alive, it's like, stealing for the elderly is worse than stealing for a child. Because at least with a child, the parents are around.
00:53:48
Speaker
It's preachy a little bit. Yeah. I feel like there's like, yeah, there's like probably some like, I don't, I don't know if like, like, you know, older people are watching this, but like, I feel like they're like watching us like nodding along like, Oh yeah, it is like, it is scary. Like fishing is scary. That's probably what it was really like. Thank God. He's out there killing them.
00:54:14
Speaker
This is like elderly like people like using computers like the nightmare, right? Just like getting called and like yes, I'll give you all my information. I'm also surprised in the beginning that woman has a computer that you can have high speed internet to download like rip off all your hair info or she even has like cable modem. You should have like dial up or something. Yeah, she's in the middle of nowhere on a laptop.
00:54:46
Speaker
and she was able to get super speedy hack yeah like it was as soon as they got the password they were like instantly oh this is like they cleared out all the accounts instantly but she had fraud detection so it's not like she didn't have any security but she didn't understand what that meant like fraud detection oh no yeah why don't you like call your bank like don't shoot yourself call your bank
00:55:13
Speaker
I don't really be able to do anything, but at least call them and tell them, like, hey, I got scammed. Like. Yeah. And then this is just a cautionary tale for older generations who. Yeah. Do not do not call pop ups that come up on your computer. They should have shown that pop up. So at least people understand what that means. I mean, I get it. You know, it's happened to some computer sites and, you know, you go there and I'll cook this pop up. But if you're like an older generation, they don't know.
00:55:41
Speaker
And it's like, don't shoot yourself. Jason Seatham is going to solve it. A beekeeper is going to burn down that place, just win it out. Although, like we said, though, if real life, you get to fly to India or something or Russia or something, blow up a grimy call center. Yep.
00:56:05
Speaker
But yeah, definitely check out the Beekeeper if you've not seen it yet. If you've listened to all this, you still want to see it. I mean, you've gotten a little bit spoiled by it, but it's still worth checking out, and it's a ton of fun.
00:56:18
Speaker
And then come back next week, we're going to be talking about The Fall Guy, not the new Ryan Gosling and Lee Bunt movie, but the original 80s TV show with Lee Majors where I watched the first episode and talk about it. The first episode actually is like, which I think most 80s shows seem to do with this at the time. The first episode is actually a feature length of 90 minutes long. So it's basically we're watching a movie, but it's the first episode of the TV show. So come back next week for that.
00:56:46
Speaker
I head over to the site right now and you can listen to our April commentary, which is Friday the 13th, part four, the final chapter. You can watch along with us and celebrate the fourth anniversary of Friday the 13th and diving into all the crazy dancing and window destruction with that movie. What's the term called again? I think it's Defenestration.
00:57:11
Speaker
And I don't think we didn't play the drinking when we were watching it, but if you want to play a drinking game every time to say dead fuck, take a shot of that movie. Because it happens a lot. And you can also check out our Gamebox 2.0 for the month. You can check out all the games we played for April.
00:57:31
Speaker
And all of our, all of our, uh, reviews, news features, all sorts of stuff. Uh, I have a review of the ministry of unchantly warfare and, uh, real moon part two on the site. If you want to read both those reviews and yeah, all of our other stuff that they're head over, check all the stuff out. And, uh, yeah, so for Chris, I am Zach and we will see you next week for more everything action, head to www.everythingaction.com.
Conclusion and Social Media Shoutout
00:57:59
Speaker
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