Monkey Man

Movie

2024

2h 1m

English

Action, Thriller

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7.2

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Monkey Man

Movie

2024

2h 1m

English

Action, Thriller

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Kid is an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

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Cast

Kid

Alphonso

Neela

Rana Singh

Baba Shakti

Queenie

Alpha

Sita

Mirza

Tabla Maestro

King Kobra / Sher Khan

Jino Achankunju Samuel

Nishit

Dimple

Lucky

Pimp

Hijra

Tiger

Tabla Maestro

Directed By: Dev Patel

Written By: Dev Patel (Story), John Collee (Screenplay), + 1 more

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RyeZoo says...

a month ago

Ambitious…. But messy. There is some good stuff here but also some things that just didn’t work. At times the action looked phenomenal, at other times I couldn’t follow what was happening with the shakey cam and the way some of it was cut. I liked the story and exploring the past. The training break between 2nd and 3rd act was the weakest part of the movie. Also felt little unsatisfying with the way it wraps. I think Dev showed some good traits though and will definitely check out whatever he does next. Shout out to Shantel Copley, he’s great as always!

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JHenryS says...

a month ago

This movie is already good on its own, but it becomes 10x better when you know what Patel went through to get it made. The movie has already cemented itself as a classic of the vengeance subgenre, with echoes of Woo and Park Chan-wook, while bursting with enough originality for it to avoid feeling like a carbon copy. It's a primal yell of a directorial debut from Dev Patel, already an underrated actor, who uses his unique experiences with religion and his own Indian heritage to bring the story of the film to life. You can smell the blood and sweat wafting through the screen

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MellowB says...

a month ago

That shit went hard, damn. I don't think I've seen anything like that since The Raid movies? While it's not all on THAT level, nothing really ever came close. And first time (full movie) director Dev Patel? Mad props yo.

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hgram says...

a month ago

There are parts of this movie that don't work for me. But when it goes hard, it goes so relentlessly hard. (Childhood trauma really is a bitch)

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Acoucalancha

6/10 a month ago

>*"If a man wishes to challenge the gods, he must become more than a man. He must become a beast."*

A commendable directional debut for Dev Patel, I can see the potencial, but ***Monkey Man*** is short of "good". It's very much an Indian version of *John Wick* with a strong inspiration from *T More

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Jordyep

5/10 a month ago

It improves on the John Wick formula by taking itself way less seriously and not blue balling the viewer with too much schlocky worldbuilding. Patel’s directing is quite solid; I like how much of the character development is done visually, the visuals are always brewing with atmosphere and the fin More

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Manuel São Bento

a month ago

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://talkingfilms.net/monkey-man-review-an-imperfect-yet-compelling-directorial-debut-from-dev-patel/

"Monkey Man shows that Dev Patel still has much to learn when it comes to directing and writing, but his unwavering commitment to a culturally and thematically rich More

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cleverashu

2 weeks ago

There's a recurrent metaphor throughout the film, of Hanuman trying to eat the sun leaping towards it Icarus-like and being stopped by the gods eventually. Maybe Dev Patel was aware of how well this metaphor would encapsulate his brave directorial debut too, all throughout the film he's trying to re More

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