Review : The Beekeeper : Excellent revenge drama!

After the invention of Internet the world became accessible to all. The world came next door with the Internet explosion. But with good things, adverse things too started circulating. Especially the financial frauds started occurring and innocent people were robbed of their money. The magnitude of these cyber crimes multiplied and these mostly indecipherable crimes led to unrest among the common people. The law enforcement officers too are unable to nab culprits, most of the time and there seems to be no solution to this problem. But ‘#TheBeekeeper’ has a solution and he solves a phishing scam case in his own inimitable way.

Adam Clay (Jason Statham) is a beekeeper by profession and is a tenant of Eloise Parker (Phylicia Rashad) who is an educationist and looks after a trust helping children study. She, while working on a computer, is led to a mysterious organisation to solve operative problem, but in a while all her accounts, including a trust account having two million dollars, are swept away by them. Shocked and dejected Eloise kills herself and Adam feels lonely as she was the only who used to treat him humanely. Her daughter Verona Parker (Emmy Raver-Lampman) is an FBI agent, who suspects that Adam must have killed her mother. On the contrary Adam ventures out to find out the culprits and teaches them a lesson. In actuality, The Beeleeper, is supposed to be a mysterious group of operatives, a wing of CIA, who apparently are above law. The happening reach the President of the United of the States whose son is on Adam’s list of culprits. What happens next and in between forms the crux of the narrative.

The Beekeeper is a high octane actioner has an exciting premise. The viewers will relate to the new age scams, a reality of modern urban life. The violence laden narrative doesn’t go deep into the modus operandi of the culprits. The loneliness prevalent in the American society starkly comes forth because the protagonist ventures out to punish the scammers because the victim used to treat him with compassion and motherly love. Adam unleashes mayhem on the bad guys with guns blazing, sometimes illogically. But the entertainment quotient is high and the proceedings keep the viewers glued to the screen. Jason Statham is excellent as The Beekeeper and his swift moves and action is worth watching. His kicks and punches offer fresh entertainment. The action choreography is excellent and keeps everyone guessing the next move.

The Beekeeper is an excellent action thriller which entertains too.

Rating : ***1/2