Editing The Beekeeper (section)

== Reception ==

===Box office===
''The Beekeeper'' grossed $66.2{{nbsp}}million domestically (United States and Canada) and $86.5{{nbsp}}million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $152.7{{nbsp}}million,<ref name="BOM">{{Cite Box Office Mojo |access-date=2024-04-20}}</ref> against a budget of "$40{{nbsp}}million or less".<ref>{{cite web |title='Mean Girls' Drives $100 Million Box Office Weekend, but It May Be the Last One Until March |first=Tom |last=Brueggemann |date=January 14, 2024 |website=[[IndieWire]] |url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/box-office/mean-girls-the-beekeeper-100-million-box-office-weekend-1234943553/ |access-date=February 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301113715/https://www.indiewire.com/news/box-office/mean-girls-the-beekeeper-100-million-box-office-weekend-1234943553/ |archive-date=March 1, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> It spent its first eight weeks in the Top 10 at the domestic box office, peaking at No. 1 in its third week.<ref name="BOMWeek">{{cite web |title=''The Beekeeper'' {{!}} Domestic Weekly |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |publisher=[[IMDb]] |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2912715521/weekly/?ref_=bo_rl_tab#tabs |access-date=2024-04-20}}</ref>
===Critical response===
{{RT prose|{{RT data|score}}|{{RT data|average}}|{{RT data|count}}|Cheerfully undemanding and enjoyably retrograde, ''The Beekeeper'' proves that when it comes to dispensing action-thriller justice, Statham hasn't lost his sting.|ref=yes|access-date={{RT data|access date}}}}{{MC film|54|37|ref=yes|access-date=2024-04-20}} Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Murphy |first=J. Kim |date=2024-01-13 |title=Box Office: ‘Mean Girls’ So Fetch With $11.6 Million Opening Day, ‘Beekeeper’ Buzzing in Second |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/box-office/mean-girls-musical-opening-day-beekeeper-jason-statham-1235870885/ |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>A review in ''[[The Guardian]]'' says the non-shooting scenes are rushed and both Rashad and Driver are underused, and describes it as "a solid, low-stakes, medium-reward new year's effort".<ref>{{cite news|last=Lee|first=Benjamin|date=January 11, 2024|title=The Beekeeper review – Jason Statham's John Wick is serviceable schlock|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/11/beekeeper-movie-review-jason-statham|access-date=January 18, 2024|work=[[The Guardian]]|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=January 18, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240118235210/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/11/beekeeper-movie-review-jason-statham|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[RogerEbert.com]]''{{'}}s [[Matt Zoller Seitz]] praised various aspects of the film, including its range of villains, but regretted: "It's a real shame that 'The Beekeeper' isn't the righteous trash masterpiece that it keeps threatening to turn into."<ref>{{cite web|last=Seitz|first=Matt Zoller|date=January 11, 2024|title=The Beekeeper movie review & film summary (2024)|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-beekeeper-movie-review-2024|access-date=January 18, 2024|website=[[RogerEbert.com]]|archive-date=January 18, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240118235210/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-beekeeper-movie-review-2024|url-status=live}}</ref>