Dev Patel's Monkey Man is a Bloody Lecture

Monkey Man is like a sociology lecture at the Grand Guignol. It has a lot to say, but something must suffer if a movie is trying to both educate and show bloody action. You cannot be both Die Hard and Schindler’s List. As such, Monkey Man is an action movie with better comparable movies and a social-commentary movie that confuses rather than clarifies. Dev Patel directed, produced, co-wrote and st