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An extremely biased review of The Beekeeper (2024) (youtu.be)

submitted 4 days ago by humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee to c/movies@lemm.ee

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58769480

Weed Watch: The Beekeeper (2024)

I discovered this hidden gem quite by accident. I like to take edibles and progressively watch weirder stuff as time passes, to align with the intensity of the high. The Beekeeper was supposed to be the first watch, a simple run of the mill action thriller.

Then the uncanny valley started. Not specifically in a visual sense, but the pacing of the cuts, and the dialogue. There is something very slightly off no matter where you look, but that clashes with what you expect from a Jason Statham movie in just the right way.

There is also so much left unexplained and unexplored in terms of the plot that it feels exactly like when you're high and everything feels like it's going out of its way to be undecipherable.

All of this combines with the honestly decent action and cameos by Josh Hutcherson and Jeremy Irons (who I think is trying to do a Southern accent, but he hasn't gotten back to me) to make for quite a unique experience for stoners and good-bad movies alike.

Have you seen the movie? What did you think about it?

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[–] captainlenovo@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Everything about this movie seems fake

[–] humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago

You're just a hive hater, man. And the hive must be protected.

[–] JosephFinley@bookwormstory.social 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

@happy wheels, I appreciate the visuals but the story is uninspired and a little off, at odds with what you'd expect from a Jason Statham movie.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 days ago

I liked this movie a lot. Yeah, it's kinda silly in its concept, but the execution of it was deeply satisfying.