have you seen the trailer for his next film ‘Beekeeper’? I
I haven’t, but, just guessing here, is he a retired assassin living a quiet life in the country with his bees until he is forced into a campaign of bloody retribution by an international syndicate of honey thieves?
No, it’s a thoughtful exposition on society, framed with reference to the love that a beekeeper must have for their charges. It’s lovingly shot in autumnal tones (repesenting the death of all of us and of society), with a score by anyone from Radiohead. Statham stands out in an elegiac role, with a performance not seen since Depardieu in Jean de Florette. His rage at the death of the queen bee is simply worthy of Lawrence as King Lear.
Or guns and shooting and running and crashing…