Three films this week. First up is new Amazon Prime comedy Ricky Stanicky. A group of friends blame all their miss adventures on a fictional friend but when their partners become suspicious they hire a boozed up John Cena to play the part of the infamous "Ricky Stanicky". Its stupid and there's no denying the lying bro's deserve more comeuppance than they get but there are some good laughs and an unexpectedly uplifting ending.
Next up Jason Statham kicks all kind of ass as The Beekeeper, a retired uber-badass who rampages from call centres to Washington after his elderly neighbour is scammed to suicide. The Stath spouts some insane dialogue, sometimes in something approximated an American accent while a couple of feds on his tale layer on the bee metaphors. Hits all the punching, kicking, shooting and gruffness you want in a Statham movie.
Last up is The House of the Devil, an early entry in the fascinating horror filmography of Ti West. An homage to the devil cult horrors of the 70's and set in the same decade its a great example of vision and style making a lower budget film look great. Throwing conventional pacing out the window, the film dances to its own beat and while you gets bags of atmosphere its hard to ignore the fact that most of the runtime is a whole lot of nothing happening.
Film of the Week : The Beekeeper. Three very different genre movies but the action title delivers the most.
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