We were all first introduced to Dev Patel as the scrawny slumdog playing Who Wants to Be a Millionaire with the hope of reconnecting with the love of his life in the Best Picture winner Slumdog Millionaire. Who would have guessed that little more than 15 years later Patel would prove himself to be not only a bonafide action star but a promising young director with his movie Monkey Man.
A revenge story about a man from a rural village in India who attempts to take down the powerful figures that burned his village and killed his mother, Monkey Man features plenty of bloody fistacuffs to satisfy all fans of the action genre. While that is enough to make Monkey Man a fun watch, there isn't a whole lot else going on in the movie.
