“I think if I was to feature in an action film back then ... as the sweet but goofy romantic hero in “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.”) In “Monkey Man,” however, Patel is not ...

With his directorial debut, the wild revenge movie “Monkey Man,” the Oscar-nominated actor makes a bold statement with this one-two punch of a film that asserts himself as both an action star ...

the movie introduces a working-class hero who learns to seek revenge for his people instead of for just himself. Universal Monkey Man's action scenes are shot with impeccable taste – with a fast ...

Revenge, we’re constantly told, is a dish best served cold — unless you’re a modern genre-flick fanatic, in which case you need payback to be served piping hot and preferably moving at 120 mph.

In the largely entertaining and exceedingly violent "Monkey Man," he plays a nameless and reluctant action ... Wick" films. But the Keanu Reeves character is name-checked here by our hero's ...

In his directorial debut “Monkey Man,” Dev Patel gifts action-movie fans with a multilayered ... At the same time, our hero is also haunted by the murder of his mom and a traumatic childhood ...

Monkey Man isn’t a kick or punch to the face. It’s an existential wail. Actor Dev Patel’s feature directorial debut, which was famously saved from its original Netflix release by Jordan ...

half-monkey Hindu god − and the origin story of the film’s star Dev Patel also begins with a larger-than-life hero. But the Oscar-nominated actor, who directs and co-wrote the film ...

The actor turns himself into the action hero we don’t see nearly ... both as a nod to Monkey Man throwing so many action movie tropes out the window and Patel rewriting the reality of ...

That second gig gets our nameless hero ... Nope. Monkey Man is a man of action. He doesn’t pull any of that lame Bruce Wayne crap. He, like myself, demands satisfaction. This is a movie that ...