YMMV / Monkey Man

• Awesome Music:
  • That rockin' tune you hear in the first trailer is Mundian To Bach Ke, incidentally one of the earliest Indian tunes to see memetic traction thanks to the internet.
  • During the battle against Queenie's thugs, it seems like Kid is about to go down upon the arrival of the next wave of foes. Then arrives the Hijra warriors, and the next stage of the battle commences to the needle drop of the insanely badass and fitting Indian metal tune "Dana Dan" by Bloodywood.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: While on the run from the police after his assassination attempt on Rana goes south, the Kid accidentally enters a brothel, and his presence pisses off the owner who attempts to kill him with an axe. This leads to a decently long and fleshed out fight scene which ends with the police showing up and shooting the owner, leading to another scene of the Kid running from the police. The fight in the brothel never comes up again.
• Complete Monster:
  • Baba Shakti is an insidious spiritual guru who hides his cruelty behind a mask of faith. A celebrity amongst the populace who rose from nothing, Baba uses his ties to the rising Sovereign Party to spread corruption across India, encouraging violence against trans citizens and non-Hindus in order to purify his country of undesirables, while secretly profiting off of Queenie's prostitution and drug running operations. Baba has several villages wiped out by his police squads in order to build factories over the lands, even converting surviving villagers into members of his cult and using them for slave labor. Baba's thirst for power has ultimately ruined the lives of many, with Kid's village being one of many he's destroyed.
  • Rana Singh is the crooked chief of police who assists Baba Shatki in his plans. Carrying out Baba's corruption by allowing his cops to abuse trans civilians and Muslims in return for drugs and women, Rana also leads the massacres of several villages in order to build Baba's factories over their land. Rana even attempted to rape Kid's mother during a previous pillage, and when she retaliated, Rana angrily beat and strangled her to death, then burned her body for good measure.
• Friendly Fandoms: Quickly developed one with the John Wick franchise thanks to the films' similar premises of a Badass in a Nice Suit going on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the criminal underworld and their visual flair showcasing neon-drenched red and purple color schemes. However, there is also a slight Fandom Rivalry due to John Wick being the most obvious film to compare this one to, which some viewers have grown tired of considering 1) how many other films had more of an influence on Monkey Man (with Dev Patel explicitly naming Korean action/revenge cinema such as The Man from Nowhere and I Saw the Devil), and 2) how high of a standard the John Wick franchise has become for modern action films to reach.
• Funny Moments: After a failed attempt to assassinate Rana, Kid attempts to escape by jumping off a window, but bounces off it instead.

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