Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie

2023
TV-PG
1h 37m

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6.7/10

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Monk, a brilliant detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder, returns to solve one last case involving his stepdaughter Molly, a journalist preparing for her wedding.Monk, a brilliant detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder, returns to solve one last case involving his stepdaughter Molly, a journalist preparing for her wedding.Monk, a brilliant detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder, returns to solve one last case involving his stepdaughter Molly, a journalist preparing for her wedding.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

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3,612

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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 10 nominations total

Trivia
Hector Elizondo (Dr. Neven Bell) was actually retired and had to be convinced to come out of retirement by Tony Shalhoub to film their scenes together.

Goofs
Monk says that Captain Stottlemeyer's mother died 37 years earlier. However, in Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife (2004), she was mentioned as still being alive.

Quotes
Adrian Monk: For nearly a decade, that particular model... the Kitchen King 480 with the digital timer and self-cleaning oven... was the best-selling appliance in North America. I bought mine on March 1, 1985, from Carl's Appliances on Rockaway Boulevard. I had it for 22 years. It was one of the longest relationships of my life, and certainly one of the happiest.

Connections
Featured in The 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2024)

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Great treat for fans of 'Monk' the old TV series.

Tony Shalhoub is now 70 years old, I most recently enjoyed him in 'Mrs Maisel' where he plays a character with similar issues. But not nearly as OCD as Adrian Monk. This movie really offers not much new, it even includes most of the old TV series cast members.

But that is not a bad thing, in fact it is a good thing. It is familiar, we don't need to get used to a whole host of new characters. This movie, at just over 90 minutes, is as good and entertaining as the typical 'Monk' TV show.

There is a death, made to look accidental, but some things just don't add up. It is a bungee jump gone wrong, the cord is six feet too long, but the experienced jumper is very meticulous in constructing his cord. "Measure twice and cut once" is his approach. (As it turns out I figured out pretty quickly how the crime was likely committed and it turned out I was right.)

So most of the second half of the movie is seeing how Monk will gather and piece together clues. His interaction with other characters is as much fun to watch.

No, this isn't a great or innovative movie but it is entertaining if you like 'Monk.' My wife and I watched it at home, streaming on Peacock.