The Beekeeper

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One of the best Jason Statham movies in a long time. It's especially entertaining because the bad guys are some Gen Z trust fund tech gurus who run a data mining operation that bilks innocent victims out of their life's savings through boiler room internet phishing scams. One of the victims is Statham's kindly retired school teacher next door neighbor who even loses the money in the charity she manages. Of course, these types of villains aren't much of a match for Statham in the tough guy department, so along comes Jeremy Irons as the former director of the CIA who is now the head of security for the bad guys' company. Irons has a bunch of ex-Seal Team types on speed dial, so the odds become a little more even.

The film goes a bid overboard in a preposterous third act, but it's a lot of B-movie fun before that.