I can't lie, it has taken me a while to get on board with the “Dev Patel needs to be Bond” train. Monkey Man, then, will surely make a convert of anyone. In the post-having-seen-Monkey-Man world, I have become utterly convinced that to choose anyone else for the role would be a tragically missed opportunity—sorry, Aaron Taylor-Johnson. It's not even that Monkey Man is all that Bond-y. Patel's directorial debut is a frenetic, kinetic action revenge joint set in India, in which Patel's character,... Read this story
