In The Beekeeper, Jason Statham plays a former operative of a shadowy organisation who is forced out of retirement to unleash his brutal skills on a corrupt cybercrime ring. I went in expecting forgettable action nonsense, but I was pleasantly surprised by how slick, stylish, and downright entertaining it turned out to be.
Statham delivers exactly what you want from him: brutal efficiency and dry wit, while the action sequences are impressively choreographed, packing a real punch.
I wish I'd seen it in the cinema rather than on an iPad in hospital, but thankfully, my AirPods Max and their spatial audio helped compensate for the small screen, making the fights and explosions feel satisfyingly immersive. It?s a blast of a film, and I won't make the mistake of underestimating it again.
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