IMDb plot summary: An anonymous young man unleashes a campaign of vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to systematically victimize the poor and powerless.
Directed by Dev Patel. Starring Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, and Pitobash.
Monkey Man is a film directed by Dev Patel. It tells the story of a man who works as a masked wrestler but has a secret plan of Revenge to take down the person who killed his mother when he was a child. I really couldn't get into this one. It's such an odd mix -- for example, at one point it hints that maybe Patel's character is actually some newly embodied version of the Monkey King himself, but then moments later it flips back around to being an extremely dark and gritty and violent action film. I'm still not entirely sure whether we're supposed to actually be rooting for the character at the end, because as far as I can see, he seems just like someone who is consumed by his own anger and let it turn him into a monster who has no qualms taking that out on everybody around him, whether they have actually earned that anger or not. It's in many ways an ugly film, and I can't decipher the intent of the film well enough to know whether that was intentional, or a stylistic choice that overwhelms whatever the story was trying to do. This is one that I think I want to look into a little bit more, because I feel like I missed what people liked about it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Monkey Man < Killing Season
Monkey Man < City Slickers
Monkey Man > Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
Monkey Man < Bright Lights
Monkey Man > Little Nikita
Monkey Man > Phir hera pheri
Monkey Man < Up the River
Monkey Man < Robin and the 7 Hoods
Monkey Man < Roberta
Monkey Man > Cinderella (2021)
Monkey Man < The Omen (1976)
Monkey Man > Billy the Kid
Final spot: #3334 out of 4031, or 17%.
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