There are a few hits happening at the moment, and one of the ones I liked was Dev Patel's.
Monkey is a fighter, but he has ideas... which involve dealing with the man who gave him childhood trauma. We find him putting a plan that gets him into the right circles, but not everything goes right. It's not until he teams up with the local hijra that gets what he needs to kick all the ass!
There is a lot of fighting, of course, but in the name of something. (Kind of like Ong Bak in that regards.) There is a lot of "the people at the top are corrupt" and so we don't feel in any way sorry for them as Monkey deals with them, and there is enough back story sprinkled in to make it all justified.
This is a Dev Patel joint, in that he (co-)wrote this, directed this, and, of course, stars in it. We also get performances from Sharlto Copley, Pitobash, and other Indian actors I have no idea about because I'm not cultured. This isn't a colourful movie (the palate is very dark), but it is well shot and you can tell what is going on, which is more than some manage.
This almost makes me think one person could make a change.
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