After two butt shots before the minute mark, our protagonist gets hit by a semi (something that was literally called by Adam) and becomes quadriplegic. His girlfriend leaves him for his doctor, a weirdly young Stanley Tucci, and he now has to live with an annoying nurse and her bird. After a suicide attempt, our protag's weird friend who is injecting monkeys with human brain shavings contacts a woman he knows who trains monkeys to help people like our protag. The friend donates the monkey he's experimenting on, Ella, to the cause. At first things are great. Ella is good at her job and the two get along while our protag is also developing a romance with Ella's trainer. Then Ella kills the nurse's bird after the bird attacks our protag. Suddenly Ella and our protag are psychically linked for some reason and Ella is now killing people he doesn't like including his ex and Tucci, his mom, and eventually just anyone in his life. The protag ends up killing her by basically biting her and whipping her around. Because disability in movies is often shitty, the film ends with the protag fully recovered and dating the monkey trainer as if he couldn't have a fulfilling life without a full recovery.
We can't really recommend this movie because it's almost two hours and doesn't really start to get good until the halfway point but the acting from midpoint on is peak. The main actor is relatively inoffensive in calm scenes but once he's supposed to get vengeful and kind of possessed by the monkey, his acting becomes insane. The deaths are comical too, particularly Ella's. Actually Ella may be the best actor in the whole film. Good for her.
Spoon Rating: 3
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