The new movie “Monkey Man” is one of those mistakenly highly rated Rotten Tomatoes movies that fools too many of us to see a new film that we would never see were it not for the high rating.
Monkey Man is about an Indian man in his 30s who is so far down on his luck, within the slums of Mumbai India that he tries to make money by being beaten up in boxing matches where he is wearing a monkey mask. One could argue that no main character within any voilent action movie takes more punches to the face than Kid, played by Dev Patel. What does not make sense is why the damage to his face and body is not much worse than shown in scenes that immediately follow.
The story is about the lives of the corrupt and extremely rich and the poor within the run down depressing and dark city of Mumbai India. This dark and depressing contrast is portrayed very well in this story.
This film is a revenge/martial arts/extremely voilent action movie that has several good action scenes, but way too many of these 2+ hours are unnecessarily boring – this entire movie could easily be 90 minutes rather than 2 hours.
Actor Dev Patel directed starred and co-wrote this film and Patel also played the lead role in "Slumdog Millionaire", released in 2008 and won the Academy Awards for best picture that year - a decision I did not agree with.
The Rotten Tomatoes for this movie are a way too high 85%, with my rating only 68% and a solid pass, due to the too many boring scenes.
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