54
Metascore
37 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80ColliderNate RichardColliderNate RichardIt's an action movie with plot beats that might make certain audience members raise their eyebrows and scoff, but it will have Statham devotees smiling, laughing, and cheering in their seats.
- 80TheWrapWilliam BibbianiTheWrapWilliam Bibbiani100% pure Statham, and after many years where audiences had to settle for the diluted variety it’s a welcome return to form.
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzBy Cinema Stathama considerations, The Beekeeper is a masterpiece – the best B(ee)-movie of this cold-hearted season.
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreStatham, 56 and fit enough to bring the fury, benefits from impressive stuntwork — his own, his double’s and the legion of stunt men/minions he’s meant to stab, kick, punch and plow his way through. And everybody can toast the breathless editing from Geoffrey O’Brien, who should be on everybody involved’s Christmas card list after this.
- 60Screen RantMae AbdulbakiScreen RantMae AbdulbakiThe Beekeeper is an engaging ride, and once the action starts it never lets up.
- 60The Daily BeastNick SchagerThe Daily BeastNick SchagerA beat-‘em-up whose competent fight sequences are ultimately overshadowed by its unintentional humor.
- 50IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichWhat 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.
- 40EmpireJohn NugentEmpireJohn NugentStatham 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.
- 38ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliIn The Beekeeper, as has been the case with pretty much anything Statham has done in the past half-decade, the actor is on hand to collect a paycheck in exchange for bringing a recognizable name to the proceedings.
- 25Slant MagazineDerek SmithSlant MagazineDerek SmithIt’s not unlike a partially completed sketch whose occasional flashes of color only serve to remind us how incomplete and lazily constructed the rest of it is.