Siddhant Adlakha
Siddhant Adlakha is a film critic and entertainment journalist originally from Mumbai. He currently resides in New York, and is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle. By Siddhant Adlakha The biggest stories of the day delivered to your inbox. This newsletter may contain advertising, deals, or affiliate links. Subscribing to a newsletter indicates your consent to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe from the newsletters at any time. Thanks for signing up. See you at your inbox!
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Bias
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- Adam mostly keeps to himself, but when Eloise ends up the victim of an expensive banking scam
- Assuming Ayer had more say here than he did on Suicide Squad, perhaps it’s time to stop demanding the latter’s #AyerCut
- Ayer and cinematographer Gabriel Beristain do a fine job of creating a sense of mystery around Statham's Adam Clay, whom we first see entering a shadowy, rundown barn in silhouette.
- Jason Statham plays the beekeeper
- The movie is called 'The Beekeeper'
Conflicts of Interest
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Examples:
- David Ayer directs Jason Statham in “The Beekeeper.” Credit: Daniel Smith / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures
- David Witts
- Eloise Parker (Phylicia Rashad) calls a number that pops up on her screen and shares her passwords with a smarmy scammer named David Witts
Contradictions
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- It takes well over an hour for the full scope of the movie’s plot to even come into view
- That Adam feels nothing when performing mechanical executions ought to make for a worthwhile plot point
- , , , The problem is that in the process of maintaining its gimmick a revenge saga in which Jason Statham plays a beekeeper and retired black ops killer the film forgets to have any fun.
- Why she owns a building that resembles a slaughterhouse is anyone’s guess; it’s as though the filmmakers were hell-bent on a spot for horror-adjacent kills, but they couldn’t figure out where to put it until the last minute.
Deceptions
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Examples:
- , It’s the right choice on the actor’s part, but the wrong one in terms of editing.
- , , That’s the very crux of a revenge romp
- , , The action in The Beekeeper is dull.
- The Beekeeper is preposterous in a dumb but not fun way.
- The movie's emotional weightlessness is, unfortunately, matched by a physical weightlessness too.
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