10 Biggest WTF Moments From 2024 Movies (So Far)
4. Derek Is The President's Son - The Beekeeper
The Beekeeper remains one of the year's most pleasantly surprising movies so far - the Jason Statham-starring thriller knew precisely what it was and delivered brutal thrills accordingly.
But it also had a genuinely unexpected plot twist up its sleeve, when it's revealed late in the movie that douchey tech-bro villain Derek Danforth (Josh Hutcherson) is actually the son of Jessica Danforth (Jemma Redgrave), the President of the United States.
This wasn't even remotely hinted at in the film's trailers and so proved to be quite the stunning surprise, that the detestable cokehead antagonist is a Hall-of-Famer nepo baby whose mother is the Leader of the Free World. Brilliant.
In another version of this movie that twist might've been a jumping-the-shark moment, but here it only made The Stath's ultraviolent right-wronging crusade that much more entertaining.
It also didn't hurt that Josh Hutcherson played so splendidly against type as Derek.