Dev Patel's Monkey Man is a Bloody Lecture
Monkey Man is like a sociology lecture at the Grand Guignol. It has a lot to say, but something must suffer if a movie is trying to both educate and show bloody action. You cannot be both Die Hard and Schindler’s List. As such, Monkey Man is an action movie with better comparable movies and a social-commentary movie that confuses rather than clarifies. Dev Patel directed, produced, co-wrote and stars in Monkey Man. Although he’s starred in many movies since his debut in Slumdog Millionaire, it’s
Ishika Banerjee: Very true! as someone from india the class divide shown in the film was very surface level an sub-par, it didnt really touch on the more nuanced aspects of the larger movement that corruption can cause in certain population. Not to mention how weak and useless the female "lead" was. Still happy to see that this movie exists and Patel is thriving to make more.