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The Bricklayer
Directed by Renny Harlin
Someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the agency is responsible. As the world begins to unite against the U.S., the CIA must lure its most brilliant – and rebellious – operative out of retirement, forcing him to confront his checkered past while unraveling an international conspiracy. From TMDB
57 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Sep 26, 2026 · last updated Oct 9, 2026 · How this works
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The Bricklayer is a 2023 action thriller film, directed by Renny Harlin, starring Aaron Eckhart, Nina Dobrev and Clifton Collins Jr..
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- posts span Oct 26, 2023 to Sep 26, 2026
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57 of 57 · most liked firstTo counteract The Accountant, The Beekeeper and The Bricklayer, there needs to be a film called The Killbastard about a guy who puts up really good shelves.
neutral · AI labelView post →First movie of the year was The Beekeeper. Last is The Bricklayer. Consistency.
neutral · AI labelView post →New Projector Short! Aaron Eckhart is The Bricklayer (out now in the US, Sky Cinema UK in February) making the bad guys absolutely brick it, the latest from Renny Harlin, but I find it's construction a bit on the shoddy side.
negative · AI labelView post →In theaters? Rise of Skywalker. So bad it put me to sleep. Streaming? There was an Aaron Eckhart movie, I think it's called The Bricklayer, that my wife and I turned off after 20 minutes.
negative · AI labelView post →I'm watching the movie "The Bricklayer." A European actor was dubbed by American voice actor. I'm reminded of Toshiro Mifune in the classic movie "Grand Prix." His accent was too strong and was dubbed over. He was embarrassed by that. He needn't have been. He was stellar.
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★ review of The Bricklayer on Letterboxd boxd.it/738nht #FilmSky 📽️
negative · AI labelView post →Wow. So we just watched the movie The Bricklayer, and it was sooooooo baddddd 🤣🤣🤣 The tagline said "The Grey Man meets the Beekeeper," and I am sorry, no, The Beekeeper was ten times better written than this piece of shit, and The Grey Man was thirty times better 🤣🤣🤣 Save yourself. Stay away. 🤣🤣🤣
negative · AI labelView post →Alright, y'all: I need a third movie in the specific vein of The Beekeeper and The Bricklayer, about a former spy/assassin/covert op who retired into a specific hobby and gets drawn back in. Any suggestions? And not just plain retired... they're now doing something specific that becomes integral.
neutral · AI labelView post →Now online, our review of The Bricklayer... www.bulletproofaction.com/2026/09/07/b...
neutral · AI labelView post →I hate that shit. Prime says this B action movie from 5 years ago is trending. Trending where!? What's the big underground fanbase for The Bricklayer!?
negative · AI labelView post →Weird. Last night I had a dream where I interacted with a "station chief." (Look it up) Tonight I am watching a movie called "The Bricklayer" and we've just been introduced to the character of the Greek station chief. Coincidence? I think not.
neutral · AI labelView post →I accidentally watched The Bricklayer with Aaron Eckhart because I thought it was this film. My major criticism of The Bricklayer is a major shortage of bricklaying or bricklaying fights and references.
negative · AI labelView post →Amazingly there is a trailer for a very similar looking film called THE BRICKLAYER With Statham's earlier THE MECHANIC, are we seeing the birth of the Some Jobs Cinematic Universe? www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC96...
neutral · AI labelView post →Ehn, it was passable entertainment. Unlike that shit movie The Bricklayer or whatever it was called. Paid good money to decent actors to make a 2 hour walk and talk b.s. procedural with occasionally poorly shot action. Gag. 😆
negative · AI labelView post →I've been thinking about my favorite movie,and I think I've settled on "The Nightmares of the Bricklayer," and I was wondering what everyone's favorite quote from the movie is? Mine is "I never thought the bricks would lay me, but I guess the Nightmares of a Bricklayer can be full of surprises."
neutral · AI labelView post →So I guess Netflix saw The Beekeeper and thought, LETS MAKE A SPY MOVIE CALLED THE BRICKLAYER
neutral · AI labelView post →That's a great catch! And possible questions: How does he see The Bricklayer compared to his classic '90s action films? What was it like working with Gabriel Basso, or the then up-and-coming cast of The Covenant? What kind of experience it was to film Deep Water compared to filming DBS?
neutral · AI labelView post →Shame Vincent Price isn’t around to play the Bricklayer in the inevitable b movie adaptation of my life.
neutral · AI labelView post →I happen to like The Bricklayer! . . . I can’t remember a goddamn thing that happens in that movie, but I’m pretty sure I liked it! 😃
positive · AI labelView post →Worst movies I have seen this year: 10. The Union (2024) 9. Atlas (2024) 8. The Predator (2018) 7. Robin Hood (2018) 6. The Beekeeper (2024) 5. The Bricklayer (2024) 4. Rebel Moon P1 (2023) 3. The Gray Man (2022) 2. X – The Movie (Anime, 1996) 1. The Substance (2024) – Turns out, I hate Body Horror!
negative · AI labelView post →It’s been happening since they were released but I had another episode of literally refusing to accept the information that The Bricklayer is a real film not a Beekeeper parody from like SNL or Mad Magazine.
neutral · AI labelView post →Long kiss goodnight is so under rated. Also the last good movie, along with Deep Blue Sea, that Harlin made until this year's The Bricklayer.
positive · AI labelView post →The Beekeeper = The Bricklayer = several other movie plots
neutral · AI labelView post →Watch the Netflix trailer for “The Bricklayer.” It’s like everyone’s worst nightmare of what AI thinks a movie trailer is. Remarkable.
negative · AI labelView post →Me finding out that Renny Harlin directed The Bricklayer hit me like...a ton of bricks. Best movie he's directed since The Long Kiss Goodnight.
positive · AI labelView post →continuing into the "Guy With A Job" cinematic universe by watching The Bricklayer. I think this movie is playing a bit straighter because there's only so many brick puns you can make @alttext.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →My favourite genre of film is the boring job title one: The Beekeeper The Bricklayer The Accountant The Mechanic The Transporter The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
neutral · AI labelView post →THE BRICKLAYER is not to be confused with THE BEEKEEPER, but it is similarly a solid B-movie action option. Here's my review for Midwest Film Journal. Read, comment, share and enjoy! midwestfilmjournal.com/2024/01/15/t...
positive · AI labelView post →to wit, here’s a brief word on The Bricklayer, in which I desperately search for anything to talk about besides the movie itself inreviewonline.com/2024/01/05/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →This is how I found out there's a new Renny Harlin movie! The Bricklayer! Sniper action, I guess.
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) The Bricklayer (HD) is available today on (Amazon)(US) for $4.79 Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Nina Dobrev, Oliver Trevena, Clifton Collins Jr., Ori Pfeffer, Tim Blake Nelson Genre: (Action) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_brickl...
neutral · AI labelView post →🎥 Movie Streaming The Bricklayer (netflix) 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼 Did not make it to the halfway point Listless spy thriller Most Thessaloniki's per minute ever! 👍 "I'm the bricklayer" 6th minute What happened to Aaron Eckhart?
negative · AI labelView post →The (movie) The Bricklayer is available today on (Amazon Prime Video) for $4.99 Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Nina Dobrev, Oliver Trevena, Clifton Collins Jr., Ori Pfeffer, Tim Blake Nelson Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_brickl...
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching for the first time the 2023 action film “The Bricklayer” with Aaron Eckhart and Nina Dobrev.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Bricklayer starring Aaron Eckhardt could be a Naked Gun style take on action movie tropes but instead, the filmmakers really believed they were making a great action movie. It's poignantly bad filmmaking. vocal.media/geeks/movie-...
negative · AI labelView post →Started trying to watch "The Bricklayer" but this movie is pissing me off and I'm not 20 minutes in. So much stupid stuff.
negative · AI labelView post →16:43 into The Bricklayer. I'm surprised I made it this far. What an absolute shit movie
negative · AI labelView post →Call it masochism, but I have a morbid curiosity about Aaron Eckhart's VOD banishment. Sometimes it pays off (as in the underrated "Muzzle" or "The Bricklayer") and sometimes...well, here's my Midwest Film Journal of "Classified." Read, comment, share, enjoy! midwestfilmjournal.com/2024/10/21/c...
positive · AI labelView post →We are trying this The Bricklayer (2024) movie for dinner tv
neutral · AI labelView post →Tried 3 anime that I won't be continuing after watching the boring movie The Bricklayer ... Wow what a disappointing night of entertainment it was
negative · AI labelView post →l could update everyone on my life and the progress with my Kickstarter, but instead I go on an extended rant about the direct to Netflix thriller THE BRICKLAYER, a bizarre movie I am still trying to make sense of. open.substack.com/pub/byandy/p...
neutral · AI labelView post →What's not a chick flick? #TheBricklayer is not. #review #movies #streaming #television https://oldaintdead.com/the-bricklayer-the-exact-opposite-of-a-chick-flick/
neutral · AI labelView post →#TheBricklayer is action packed for the dude bros. #review #movies #streaming https://oldaintdead.com/the-bricklayer-the-exact-opposite-of-a-chick-flick/
neutral · AI labelView post →This week Nancy steps in, Sean has a review of #TheBricklayer, give us a listen to hear what he thinks of this movie and so much more #podcasts https://buff.ly/3xB6Llz
neutral · AI labelView post →What are we to make of a film that features not just the old Red Digital Readout, but also an Ill-Timed Sneeze? All that’s missing is Scooby and the gang. #TheBricklayer #MovieReview #Action #Thriller #Film https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2024/04/14/the-bricklayer/
neutral · AI labelView post →“I don’t really have much to say…” My ★★ review of The Bricklayer on @letterboxd: boxd.it/5WTqMH
negative · AI labelView post →#TheBricklayer #cinemastodon #filmastodon #movies My ★★½ review of The Bricklayer on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/5NgSDT
negative · AI labelView post →A former CIA agent is called out of retirement when the agency finds itself in trouble in The Bricklayer www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-b...
neutral · AI labelView post →It's hard to say whether "The Bricklayer" represents a proper comeback for one-time Hollywood action king Renny Harlin. But at Midwest Film Journal, IFJA member Nick Rogers says it's at least his best film in 25 years.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Doing these kind of movies, I totally feel that I'm still the kid that I was when I was eight years old in the sandbox with all the toys and all my friends creating scenarios" - Renny Harlin on making The Bricklayer and rebooting The Strangers www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2024...
neutral · AI labelView post →This light on action abomination, posing as an action movie, is dumber than a bag of bricklayers. They actually shoe horn in him being a bricklayer, who brings his brick tools on cia missions, and he actually gets to use his trowel to find some secrete crap in a wall, oops, i mean, spoiler alert. Oh, and he really loves jazz, cause hes sophisticated, despite being a dumb fuck bricklayer. Contrived would be generous. Shakey-cam cut-frenzy horse shit action, check, chauvinistic writing for the…
negative · AI labelView post →Woooooooow. Cheap, cheap, cheap thrills. Bricklayer does this one knee slide at one point - kick ass. Kate shoots through him at guy speeding away on motor bike, Bricklayer doesn't even flinch. Bricklayer rules. Amazing. Thanks, team.
positive · AI labelView post →Basic but serviceable action flick with the usual cast of cliched US "good guys" vs your standard fare villains.This films not going to set the world on fire but its not dreadful, either. Pacing is decent and acting is okay. In summary, if you like the occasional simple, exposition driven action flick, this is worth a look.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just saw DIE HARD 2 director Renny Harlin's upcoming action film THE BRICKLAYER. I liked his '90s stuff; DH2 is my favorite of that franchise's sequels, and CLIFFHANGER is terrific. Hell, I dug the critically-panned MINDHUNTER. This one... well, the review's coming to DCFilmdom.com soon. Stay tuned.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Bricklayer and The Beekeeper and 98 other action movies in my newest list! I might make changes! boxd.it/r3098
neutral · AI labelView post →'The Bricklayer' Trailer Teases the Aaron Eckhart-led Action Flick!! Check It Out!! #AaronEckhart, #CliftonCollinsJr, #IlfeneshHadera, #NinaDobrev, #TheBricklayer, #TimBlakeNelson http://movizark.com/2023/12/18/the-bricklayer-trailer-teases-the-aaron-eckhart-led-action-flick-check-it-out/
neutral · AI labelView post →'The Bricklayer': Aaron Eckhart-led Action Flick Sets U.S. Release Window!! #AaronEckhart, #CliftonCollinsJr, #IlfeneshHadera, #NinaDobrev, #TheBricklayer, #TimBlakeNelson http://movizark.com/2023/10/26/the-bricklayer-aaron-eckhart-led-action-flick-sets-u-s-release-window/
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