ButThe Monkeyis hardly your average King page-to-screen situationa relief, considering how many of those are already out there.
Like death itself, the monkey also cannot be destroyed, despite some determined efforts to do so.
Or perhaps that carelessly handled firearm?
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Or even a culprit thats just flat-out ridiculous?
The movie has a mean streak, to be sure, but its also witty as hell.
Amid all its carnage,The Monkeyalso leaves the viewer with deeper themes to ponder.
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And thats fucked up.
It reads like a misprint (shouldnt that be life-like?
), but it is indeedlike life.
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The monkey randomly decides who itll eliminate next, because death is random.
The Monkeyhits theaters February 21.
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