The Beekeeper

I had initially seen the preview for this movie while waiting for Godzilla Minus One to start and I laughed out loud. I thought it was a parody movie - pulling every single action movie / Jason Statham trope into a single plot and cranking them up to 11. I jokingly said that we had to go see it for a fun time.

Smash cut to us sitting in the theater tonight, cackling and yelling at the screen during what was honestly the most fun action movie I may have ever seen. The plot was primitive. The dialogue was almost entirely one-liners and sometimes incoherent from moment to moment. Some of the characters (the buddy cops) felt entirely improvised, full of non-sequiturs and repeated lines. So many characters had over-the-top accents and comical attributes (like a gang of half-drunk assassins).

It felt like watching an action movie that had been transformed into a comic and then transformed again into a live-action display and it pummeled me into enjoyment.