A brutal Mumbai answer to John Wick and The Raid in the directorial debut of the Slumdog Millionaire star.
Monkey Man
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13 Apr 2024
- Age restrictions
- 18+
2024, Dev Patel
United States–Canada–India–Singapore
128 minutes, English with Russian subtitles
Starring: Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Sobhita Dhulipala, Vipin Sharma
When Kid was a child, his mother was murdered and his home village was burnt down. Growing up, he makes a living as a live punching bag in underground fighting rings—and hides his pain under a monkey mask. Having infiltrated a crime syndicate, he hopes to avenge the powerful for the death of his mother.
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Shot from Monkey Man, 2024
Patel’s grimy, ultraviolent mixtape of action influences has the chaotic unpredictability of Park Chan-wook’s “Oldboy” and the neon gunplay of the “John Wick” franchise.
— Katie Rife, IndieWire
Monkey Man is more than a brutal and adrenaline-fuelled thriller: it unequivocally criticises India’s conservative turn and the corruption that pervades the country.