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All brawn and very little brains.

There's some fun to be had with the action sequences when the mayhem starts but there's quite a lot that is just plain silly.

District 9 actually has some intelligence behind it and expects some in front of it, too.

It's DoA meets The Wizard Of Oz with Matt Damon as an irradiated Dorothy.

As the action progresses, this quickly becomes Marinca's film, as she uses her body language as much as the script to suggest more subtle forms of angst.

The director resembles a sniper who remains unseen, but whose presence can nonetheless be felt.

There are places where constraint has given Monkey Man opportunities to invent and flourish and it has been fruitful.

The veteran director brings more than enough to the table to make his version well worth watching.