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All the Sad-Eyed Action Guys Are Doing This Move


Why use your own weapon when you can use the one your enemy just stabbed you with?

It’s how Dev Patel’s Kid completes his lifelong quest for revenge in Monkey Man, not against some hulking bruiser or expert martial artist but a silver-haired guru who’s been using a veneer of holiness to accrue power and wealth for himself and his corrupt pals. Vin Diesel, the Rock, and Jason Statham may all contractually not be allowed to lose fights onscreen, but the kind of action hero that Chalamet, Gyllenhaal, and Patel are playing isn’t made of iron and attitude. He’s a hard-bodied soft boy, one who gets hurt a lot, emotionally as well as physically, which is why all these characters are so haunted by their pasts and what they have to do in the future even before they begin taking sharp objects to the abdomen.

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