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"He's just a beekeeper"........


I really connect with this movie because of the premise of scumbag scammers getting there's in the worst way possible.

As silly as the entire movie was.....this line annoys the living shit out of me..... what FBI a-hole says something stupid like that... he has pretty much decimated everything he's come in contact with and she knows damn well how outclassed she is.... in every way... yet "I'm going in"... fuck you.

Her mom just died and she acts like it's business as usual... come on. Like I said, I know how much of a farce it is, but man, that level of stupidity & thinking she is some type of female Rambo (which clearly she is not) and her "we have laws for these things BS"... yeah right.

And at the end where she thinks she's got him... really honey, were you not paying attention to the concept of what a queen slayer even means all leading up to that moment? He would have killed you with a rock from that distance even with your auto trigger gun.

For me it's fun movie and I've watched it a few times... but man, she is a really annoying character and that line just trigger's me.

If she was a "beekeeper" herself or had some equivalent training at that combat level... this post wouldn't even exist because it would then actually be quite funny as we are in on the inside joke of what everyone else is evolving to find out.

Just venting and wondering if it annoys anyone else besides me or am I just being a bitch about it....LOL.

Greetz.
Chris

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The extended B-plot with two FBI agents was 100% unnecessary and probably included because Jason Statham was too white and male. They could've (and should've) cut that subplot out entirely, or down to just two scenes.

Statham's character was already motivated to pursue vengeance by his connection to his scamming/suicide victim friend, he was already operating outside the confines of the law, and he didn't need any assistance from the FBI. In fact, when I first watched it I figured those daughter would recognize the importance of extralegal interference, go rogue, and start feeding him intel behind her partner's back. That may have been her and/or her partner's arc, but instead he already had the means to get all that intel himself.

It feels like an older action movie screenplay with diversity glued on to satisfy the current requirements for getting a movie produced.

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