Monkey Man
Kid, 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.
- Released:
- Runtime: 113 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Thrillers
- Stars: Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Sobhita Dhulipala, Sikandar Kher, Brahim Achabbakhe, Pitobash, Adithi Kalkunte, Jino A. Samuel, Anup J. Patel, Jeremy Tauziac, Andres Levi, Pehan Abdul, Dayangku Zyana, Alona Vykydanets, Fahad Scale, Ashwini Kalsekar, Makrand Deshpande, Zakir Hussain, Jatin Malik
- Director: Dev Patel
Comments
- baravital - 3 July 2024
A good movie and recommended to watch
The film is made with great investment and attention to the small details. In addition, the film's plot is complete and successful, evoking feelings of compassion and identification on the one hand, and producing tension and shock in the high-quality action scenes on the other hand.
The actors are great and thought and investment was put into each and every scene.
The shortcomings I found in the film, which is why they gave it a 7 and no more, are for example the frequent change of scenes in the film, something that bothered me a little at one point.
In addition, the lack of logic in a fighter with only his hands from the times of old, who lived in a modern world and yet his enemies do not shoot at him in the last part of the film, but fight him with their hands. It is nice for those who do not care about the logic of a plot, but it felt a little like a Chinese warrior film from the 1980s 40.
In addition, there were illogical parts that were discounted from the film, for example - where did the police officers on the motorcycle go during the chase? Evaporate? Is the helicopter gone too? There is no logic in some of the scenes on a perceptible level, which unfortunately detracts from the film.
You can add depth to the writing as well..something didn't connect to me until the end.
And yet, a better movie than many Hollywood movies that are known in the world in my opinion. - a_chinn - 24 June 2024
Part social commentary and part kick assery!
Writer/director/star Dev Patel (star of CHAPPIE and SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE) delivers a film that's an interesting mix of social commentary and some seriously badass beatdowns. Taking on the caste system of India, Patel plays a lower caste member of society who makes a living working as an underground fighter who wears a gorilla mask and takes some savage beatdowns from more popular fighters. Patel figures out a way to infiltrate the upper caste power structure to exact his revenge on those who wronged him and his family in the distant past. MONKEY MAN is incredibly political when it comes to themes of how the ultra-wealthy class treats common folks and holds them in contempt. India's caste system is an extreme example of this, but wealth disparities are something that translates across cultures and political systems. On a more visceral level, the film delivers some exceptionally well-done fight scenes. It takes a while for the action to kick in and the movie trailer led me to expect more action than there was, but once the fighting gets going, it's John Wick levels of kick assery! Jordan Peel signed on as a producer for the film and just like his films, MONKEY MAN is a well-done mix of smart social commentary and entertaining genre filmmaking.
