The Beekeeper
MGM Distribution | Release Date: January 12, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
18
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreJan 15, 2024
The Beekeeper takes a Mad Libs approach to moviemaking. Read full review
60
IGNEmma StefanskyJan 11, 2024
A semi-confusing script and heavy-handed direction from David Ayer muddle the proceedings, but enough inspired pizazz and Statham’s earnest delivery of lines like “I protect the hive” just barely bring it all home. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeJan 11, 2024
There’s a grubby, late-night appeal to his dialled-up trash aesthetic and The Beekeeper mostly works because of it. Bee prepared for a sequel. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesTara BradyJan 11, 2024
There’s a half-hearted plot twist that doesn’t land. Mostly, however, this is a film about explosions and bad guys getting their comeuppance. Fast cuts and more than 50 credited stuntmen and stuntwomen make for, well, buzzy spectacle. Read full review
60
The Daily BeastNick SchagerJan 10, 2024
A beat-‘em-up whose competent fight sequences are ultimately overshadowed by its unintentional humor. Read full review
60
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiJan 10, 2024
The Beekeeper is an engaging ride, and once the action starts it never lets up. Read full review
58
The Film StageConor O'DonnellJan 10, 2024
Any eye-rolling quips or comic-book acidity is generally outweighed by this fundamental understanding: the best special effect your action film can deploy is Jason Statham kicking people. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithJan 11, 2024
The Beekeeper, which is both a bee movie and a B movie, falls in the same category as many other Statham-versus-everyone action thrillers: not very good, yet enjoyable enough. Read full review
50
Rolling StoneDavid FearJan 11, 2024
By the time a final showdown snaps your suspension of disbelief and suggests there are bigger hornet’s nests to kick, The Beekeeper has crept out of the realm of pulpy B-movie thrills and falls just short of being a Bee movie dabbling in deep-state paranoia-mongering. Read full review
50
The Associated PressJake CoyleJan 11, 2024
It can be divertingly bonkers, but ends up a rather grim and slipshod “John Wick” ripoff. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeJan 10, 2024
The Beekeeper is the best kind of bad movie — which is to say, it’s the sort that puts entertainment ahead of pretentiousness, embracing the laughter sure to accompany such an unapologetically stupid, ultra-violent premise. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAmy NicholsonJan 10, 2024
Statham excels as a straight-faced goof. Between his glower and the movie’s high-quality production values, this brain cell-destroying schlock resembles an earnest drama. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJan 10, 2024
Watching the bullet-headed action star take down squads of government agents and thuggish mercenaries alike, mostly while unarmed, is fun enough. Probably even more so in Imax. Read full review
50
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJan 10, 2024
What this movie has — courtesy of Kurt Wimmer’s upwardly mobile script — is a rickety ladder that it climbs from comically low stakes up to the highest levels of power. Read full review
45
Paste MagazineBrianna ZiglerJan 16, 2024
This inane new Statham vehicle, The Beekeeper—directed by Suicide Squad auteur David Ayer and written by Expend4bles’ Kurt Wimmer—manages to be moderately stimulating, all things considered, though it suffers from the filmmakers’ inability to allow it to be as inane as it clearly should be. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeJan 15, 2024
It’s Statham’s movie – a brisk, slick, ultra-violent action onslaught that yet again demonstrates his ability to redeem just about any old tosh. Read full review
40
Little White LiesHannah StrongJan 12, 2024
What we have is a generic addition to an already oversaturated genre – one that doesn’t even have the sense to make use of Statham’s often underutilised comedic talents. Read full review
40
EmpireJohn NugentJan 10, 2024
Statham is as gruffly convincing as he usually is (though it’s 20 minutes before he’s even allowed to kick any ass), but the action scenes are horribly inconsistent: fine in the hand-to-hand stuff, sloppy elsewhere. Read full review
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