The Monkey2025

Perkins is turning out to be one of those directors for me who makes his film look really good and everything solid technically but struggles when it comes to writing a solid movie. At least Longlegs had something going on and very well done up until that juvenile climax. Here, the tonality falters. In the sense, blend of horror with dark comedy is so poorly done. While doing that, director couldn’t focus much on characters or overall writing. Even the lead character was uninteresting throughout. The central theme of the film, from what I get is that unpredictability of DEATH and chaotic nature of it but strangely film was predictable (Chaotic, yes but still not satisfyingly done). Except few unpredictable kills in the beginning, nothing else was like “Oh I didn’t expect that”. Disappointed overall. Had lot of scope to be something absurdly clever horror. It was absurd for sure but not clever. Sigh!!