The Jason Statham action thriller The Beekeeper was full of insanely awesome scenes and sequences that made it one of the most absurdly enjoyable action movies of 2024. With Statham as Adam Clay, a retired Beekeeper operative who used his former secret special agent skills to seek revenge on those who scammed an elderly woman out of charity funds, The Beekeeper had plenty of action scenes and memorable moments. Clay was a menacing anti-hero who had no issue with taking on criminal gangs, government agents, and, eventually, the President of the United States of America.

As an over-the-top action spectacle, The Beekeeper worked well, and its best action scenes were categorized by awesome attacks, dangerous denotations, and thrilling fight sequences. With a witty tongue-in-cheek script packed with bee-related puns, this Statham action movie proved the star has not lost any of his sting and can deliver enjoyable, mindless action movie fun. The best action scenes in The Beekeeper were truly awesome, as the stakes continued to rise while Clay fought for the good of the hive.

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Taking Down The SWAT Team

Adam Clay quickly took out several men at once

The beekeeper Adam Clay encountered plenty of blockades as he sought justice against those who scammed the unsuspecting public, and by the time he made it to his second call center, the United States government had become involved. When Clay made it outside of the Nine Star building, he had no issue infiltrating the SWAT team, which had secured the perimeter. With ease, Clay took down the armed FBI forces and swiftly made his way into the building to confront the immoral phishing scammers who worked inside.

Clay’s casual nature as he confronted the SWAT and told them, “If there was a back entrance, I would’ve used it” before taking them down was pretty badass, but the scene lacked the awesome nature of the most exciting action sequences in The Beekeeper. With incredible skill, Clay took out the team with his bare hands as he kicked and punched his way into the building. While this scene featured some great fight choreography, it was just a brief glimpse of the carnage that Clay was capable of.

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In The President’s Office

Adam Clay’s final confrontation

Action movies like The Beekeeper slowly build toward their epic conclusion, with each scene getting more outrageous before the grand finale; however, Adam Clay’s final confrontation in the president’s office felt slightly anti-climatic. After having taken down countless scammers and government agents, the final showdown felt quick and underwhelming as Clay took out the president’s son, Derek Danforth (Josh Hutcherson), with ease and quickly escaped. While it felt like The Beekeeper was edging toward a showdown with FBI Agent Verona Parker (Emmy Raver-Lampman), this just never came.

It was great to see Clay escape and serve vigilante justice, but sadly, the showdown ended with a whimper rather than a bang. Clay made it out by jumping through a glass window and scuba diving away, which left the door open for The Beekeeper 2, but it’s hard to shake the feeling that this ending could have been a lot more awesome. The main complaint about the climax of The Beekeeper was how few bees were involved and that Clay did not use a swarm of bees to assist him in his climactic confrontation.

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Call Center (Again)

Adam Clay proved he was more than brute force

After having already taken out a multi-million dollar call center, Adam Clay was not done yet and proceeded to make his way to the Nine Star building and confront the next level of sinister scammers who had stolen over $2 million from the retired school teacher Eloise Parker (Phylicia Rashad.) With the SWAT team outside already defeated, Clay continued to cause carnage as he swung an employee across his office desk while Special Forces shot at him. As a quick-bullet-laden action sequence, Clay hid in the vents and waited for his moment to strike.

When Clay laced a noose around the neck of a Special Forces officer and hung him out to dry, it became clear to all the rest of his adversaries that he was no normal target. Clay’s awesome ingenuity and unstoppable determination made him an incredible force to be reckoned with, and scenes such as this were some of the most enjoyable aspects of The Beekeeper. As Clay hit the fire alarm and turned down the lights, he had no issue taking out Agent Matt Wiley (Bobby Naden) with a fire extinguisher as Agent Parker and her team charged the building.

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At The President’s Mansion

Adam Clay was getting closer to the Queen Bee

The beekeeper Adam Clay slowly made his way to the very top of the United States government as he took on the role of the Queen Slayer and carried out his plan to eliminate the president’s defective child. After making it to President Danforth’s beachside mansion, which was littered with an assortment of high society guests and Special Forces officers, Clay’s calm and calculated nature was in sharp contrast to the frantic panic of the FBI and Danforth’s criminal associates. As the forces sought to take out Clay, he detonated an explosion and continued his rampage.

The action sequence, in which Clay shot everyone in sight and went hell for leather to make it to the president’s office, was one of the most urgent moments in The Beekeeper. After outsmarting Lazarus (Taylor James) with his bomb and taking out practically all his adversaries, President Danforth and her son Derek realized that this would not end well for either of them. This fire-filled mission was heating up, and the action scene at the president’s mansion gave Statham some time to shine and show why he’s one of the greatest action stars working today.

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A Hallway Showdown

Adam Clay’s closest call

Just before Adam Clay made it to the president’s office to complete his revenge plan, he was confronted by her crony Lazarus in the hallway, and they proceeded to have one of the best fights in The Beekeeper. As one of the few people who can claim to have previously killed a Beekeeper, Lazarus didn’t try to hide the fact that he “got lucky” and, in pursuing Clay, was hoping he could repeat this luck. However, it was quickly apparent that Lazaraus was outmatched, and Clay made quick work of his enemy before confronting the Commander-in-Chief.

Clay’s hallway fight with Lazarus was an epic battle as they fought in broken glass that Clay used to stab his enemy in the face. With brutal hand-to-hand combat, this awesome display of violence was Clay letting out all his aggression and the closest he came to being defeated throughout all of The Beekeeper. While, of course, Clay made it out in the end, he had a few battle marks, as Larazus did manage to stab him before being beaten to death with his own knuckle dusters.

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Flight Of The Bumblebees

Adam Clay swarms on his enemies

For a movie called The Beekeeper, there were not nearly enough bees throughout its swift 105-minute runtime; however, the scene where Mickey Garnett (David Witts) and his wrecking crew confronted Adam Clay was the closest it got to an outright bee attack. As Mickey’s men shot at Clay’s bees and sent the hives swarming, it was clear that things would not end well for them. While the wrecking crew made their way through Clay’s bee barn, it was not long before Clay’s awesome combat skills came to the forefront.

Mickey managed to get away after Clay used his signature move of cutting his fingers off, but the same cannot be said for his team, who were brutally murdered at the hands of this frightening beekeeper. As the climactic scene of the first act of The Beekeeper, this was just the beginning for Clay, as he would not stop now until he had made it to the very top. Here, Clay showed his skill for quiet takedowns, aggressive violence, and incredible hand-to-hand combat that laid the seeds for all to come.

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Setting Traps

Adam Clay has ingenious tactics

While Adam Clay was not the stealthiest of action heroes, there was one scene where he showed off his skill for less confrontational means of taking out his enemies. After going through the Nine Star building and taking out hordes of FBI officers, Clay quickly set some traps that proved there was more to his talents than out-and-out brute force. As Clay carefully laced an elevator with explosive wiring, he set up one of the most awesome sequences in The Beekeeper that gave the Special Forces officers a surprise they did not see coming.

The over-the-top spectacle of The Beekeeper was on full display when the officers shot hundreds of bullets at Clay as he bided his time in the elevator shaft above their heads. The cool, calculated nature of Clay was apparent as he asked them, “You done?” before setting off a timed denotation. As the men sought to make their escape, they ran out of time; one was crushed by the elevator door, and the others were pulled by Clay’s rope to their deaths in one of the most awesome action scenes in The Beekeeper.

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Smoking Out The Hornets

Adam Clay was seeking vengeance

Audiences were first exposed to the intense vengeance tactics of beekeeper Adam Clay when he confronted the scammers who had bankrupted Eloise Parker and caused her to end her own life. Clay showed that he was a man who was not to be messed with, as he announced to the call center employees that they would “never steal from the weak or the vulnerable again” before dousing the center in gasoline. This was one of the most action-packed scenes in The Beekeeper as the employees quickly learned that Clay was not joking and would all be killed in a blaze of glory if they did not immediately vacate the building.

While the smarmy call center boss, Mickey Garnett, tried to confront Clay, his efforts proved fruitless as he was told that the next phone call would cause the entire building to explode. This was the first major action scene in The Beekeeper, and it laid the groundwork for everything that would come after it. With a no-nonsense attitude and stern determination, Clay showed off all the characteristics of a classic action movie anti-hero who will stop at nothing to carry out his vision of vigilante justice.

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The Beekeepers Meet

Adam Clay easily took out his replacement

Once it was revealed that Adam Clay was a retired ‘Beekeeper’ operative whose secret government organization was used to solve problems that were too dangerous for the CIA or FBI, it led to the question of who the current Beekeeper was. After Clay messed with the president’s son, he was pursued by the current Beekeeper. While in most action movies, this would be the central conflict of the entire film, in The Beekeeper, Clay made quick work of his replacement in an awesome action scene that made the entire Beekeeper organization declare neutrality and refuse to pursue Clay further.

The current Beekeeper, Anisette Landress, confronted Clay at a gas station, and the two fought it out as she shot at him with a machine gun. This was no issue for Clay, as he quickly disarmed and set her on fire in an approximately one-minute battle. The way that Clay quickly defeated what had been set up as the film’s main antagonist was a clever subversion of action movie clichés that made The Beekeeper so enjoyable while simultaneously hilarious.

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Catapulted Off The Bridge

Adam Clay shows no mercy

The greatest action scene in The Beekeeper was an intensely brief one, but it packed a whole lot of excitement. This was when Adam Clay confronted the call center boss, Mickey Garnett, in his car after having already cut off his fingers at his bee barn. While Mickey called his boss, Derek Danforth, to let him know what had happened, he knew that he had met his match and that Clay was going to be the death of him.

Clay showed that he was the wrong person to mess with when he tied Mickey up with a seatbelt and catapulted him off a bridge with the power of a moving car. This terrifyingly swift death was the audience’s realization that Clay was truly capable of anything and would show no mercy at the hands of those he wished to take down. The over-the-top spectacle of this scene occurred early in The Beekeeper, and it was a shame that the movie did not manage to top the absurd action of this death.