"But what about the bees?"

That was a fairly random question posed to us with great earnestness during a casual conversation with people who don't quite understand ecology. So, in the ensuing years, whenever one of us in the family wants to insert a non sequitur, we would yell, "But what about the bees?"

You're welcome for my odd segue to this blog post's topic.

I read a review of this movie that kept talking about how hilarious this film is. Uh, did we watch the same movie, bruh? I mean, it's not heavily philosophical, but the inciting incident is an elderly lady committing suicide after scammers swindle her out of her entire savings and the account for a charity she ran. Not exactly haha material.

It's mostly an action movie in the vein of Mission Impossible with a theme of avenging a wrongful death. So, there's a lot of fighting and violence (but, gawd, do the baddies deserve it). It's not, however, even as gory as a typical horror flick. I can't do gore.

Maybe it's because scammer assholes are so rampant these days that I don't find it funny that they're the bad guys (rather apropos actually)...but I feel like you could be completely lacking empathy if you thought that was a funny premise.

For me, I really enjoyed the movie because it plays out a secret fantasy: that bad people get their comeuppance in a spectacular way. I've always had a staunch sense of fairness: that good people should get rewarded and bad people die horrible deaths as befitting their crimes. Life is nothing like that and it drives me completely bonkers.

That is not to say, however, that this movie isn't entertainingly fun (the fight moves are very cool; I'm a sucker for well-choreographed or filmed/edited fight scenes). But it isn't just that; it also has a good message--stop screwing over innocent people. And because the bad guys bite it in the end, I also categorize it as a "feel good" movie. Vengeance is a dish best served with lots of butter and salt.🍿I would take take this film over any Hallmark romance or chick flick any day (well, heck, I'd take The Exorcist or Rosemary's Baby over those any day, too).

If I were to start rating movies by 🍿, I'd rate this 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿.5 out of 10. Maybe even 9/10 for pure entertainment and revenge satisfaction.

Let me know if you've seen it.