There's no doubt that Dev Patel is a fine actor and now, with his first film as a director, someone who clearly knows the ropes. Unfortunately that film, "Monkey Man" is just another "John Wick" rip-off set in Mumbai, an ultra-violent revenge fantasy distinguished, if at all, by a subplot involving a community of Hijiras living on the margins who help our hero when he needs it most.
Otherwise it's business as usual and something of a vanity project for Patel, very well made but hardly pleasant viewing. With its main plot involving political corruption and the rise of right-wing politics in India as well as murder and revenge, it's a tad more intelligent than the Wick movies and the action scenes should ensure its success at the box-office but personally I found the excessive violence a turn-off.
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