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Monkey Man’s new trailer feels like a warning shot fired at John Wick

Dev Patel’s Monkey Man is coming to show John Wick how it’s done in the action-thriller’s new trailer.

But the first trailer for Universal and Blumhouse’s Monkey Man from director Dev Patel makes it seem like a glorious challenge to viewers to understand how much bigger, wilder, and more visually inspired these kinds of movies can be. It’s hard to tell from the trailer exactly how unique Monkey Man ’s story — co-written by Patel, Paul Angunawela, and John Collee — will feel compared to other films that tackle similar ideas. But both the film’s cinematography and its fight sequences seem like they’e going to be absolutely mesmerizing, and as surprising as this kind of turn for Patel might feel, it also might be one of the things that makes Monkey Man a hit when it debuts on April 5th.

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