Dev Patel already acted in several very good movies like Slumdog Millionaire, Lion, Chappie and others, but for his directional debut we had to wait for Monkey Man where he acts, directs and wrote the screenplay. Certainly not a bad debut, on the contrary it's a fast-paced action thriller that is quite entertaining if you don't mind a couple over-the-top situations where the main character played by Dev Patel himself is a well trained fighting machine seeking for vengeance. Apart of a couple shaky scenes the rest is high quality in your face camerawork. Well choreographed fighting scenes that looked painful and bloody. It's a bit in the style of a Jason Statham movie, only this time the hero is Dev Patel.
Review of Monkey Man
