Review of Monkey Man

Monkey Man (2024)
2/10
Unoriginal and full of reused cliche concepts
20 April 2024
I think the high scores are from people with a Hindu background. They're totally biased. The entire movie is a cliche Bollywood action movie that everyone has seen a million times already. It's totally unoriginal and has rip-off fight scenes stolen from John Wick.

The first half is cultural propaganda. It's so cringy that I just didn't want to keep watching. No real character development. Just the tough guy protagonist and trying too hard to make the audience like Indian culture. Don't get me wrong, I've seen a lot of Bollywood movies. If you want to see a good Dev Patel Indian movie, go watch Lion (2016) instead.

The story is begging the audience to like the characters. The action is forgettable. I did stick to the end and left the theater feeling like I wasted hours. There are better fight movies and Indian movies out there. Don't let the high review scores fool you unless you want to waste your time and money.

I'll still give it a 2 because it's not the worst movie ever made. This is a typical forgettable Netflix movie that you would stop watching halfway through.
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