What happens to one of you, happens to all of you. -Terrence Settman
A Noomi Rapace fan's dream come true. The only thing better than a film starring Rapace would be one starring seven versions of her. Sci-Fi thriller to boot? Holy hell sign me on!
I really liked this movie despite some major flaws. It starts out very strong with some help from Willem Dafoe as the film's dystopian world and the seven sisters' lives are established.
It's 2043 and people are now only allowed to have one child because of a world overpopulation crisis. Enter the Settman septuplets who are taken care of by their grand father (Dafoe) and trained to be one person by being named the days of the week, each one going out into the world on "her day" and all taking the persona of Karen Settman. Sounds great so far right?
It's directed by Tommy Wirkola, a man who already brought me great joy through the Dead Snow films. Here he puts together a tense action filled thriller that has a moment or two of shocking violence with characters I really liked, although admittedly a couple of them were a bit too broad without much depth. So what's the problem? Mostly just the under cooked plot.
At the beginning I had a few small plot points nagging at me that I let pass at first (maybe I missed an explanation for some). Like this "one child" law, is it world wide? Just one country? What happens with accidental births? What if people get divorced and remarried, are they allowed to have a child? Is the one child thing per person or per couple? Why is none of this explained? Doesn't it seem like Saturday and Sunday really lucked out on their names? OK... nitpicking here maybe.
Later on though some bigger plot points nagged at me heavily (Why are you still in the apartment?) and found the film's explanations for why this was happening seemed illogical to me (Seriously get the fuck out of that apartment). Characters do things because of a certain logic, if they have a choice to make and there's risk involved you have to weigh which risk is greater (Just get the fuck out of that god damn apartment! You are pissing me off!) and the characters here didn't seem to be able to tell that one risk was greater than the other.
The main story was great though, there's just some details in some of the plot points that could have used a little more work. I loved everything else in the movie, especially Rapace kicking ass.
Review by Mr.DuLacVIP 7BlockedParent2017-09-17T02:16:55Z
What happens to one of you, happens to all of you.
-Terrence Settman
A Noomi Rapace fan's dream come true. The only thing better than a film starring Rapace would be one starring seven versions of her. Sci-Fi thriller to boot? Holy hell sign me on!
I really liked this movie despite some major flaws. It starts out very strong with some help from Willem Dafoe as the film's dystopian world and the seven sisters' lives are established.
It's 2043 and people are now only allowed to have one child because of a world overpopulation crisis. Enter the Settman septuplets who are taken care of by their grand father (Dafoe) and trained to be one person by being named the days of the week, each one going out into the world on "her day" and all taking the persona of Karen Settman. Sounds great so far right?
It's directed by Tommy Wirkola, a man who already brought me great joy through the Dead Snow films. Here he puts together a tense action filled thriller that has a moment or two of shocking violence with characters I really liked, although admittedly a couple of them were a bit too broad without much depth. So what's the problem? Mostly just the under cooked plot.
At the beginning I had a few small plot points nagging at me that I let pass at first (maybe I missed an explanation for some). Like this "one child" law, is it world wide? Just one country? What happens with accidental births? What if people get divorced and remarried, are they allowed to have a child? Is the one child thing per person or per couple? Why is none of this explained? Doesn't it seem like Saturday and Sunday really lucked out on their names? OK... nitpicking here maybe.
Later on though some bigger plot points nagged at me heavily (Why are you still in the apartment?) and found the film's explanations for why this was happening seemed illogical to me (Seriously get the fuck out of that apartment). Characters do things because of a certain logic, if they have a choice to make and there's risk involved you have to weigh which risk is greater (Just get the fuck out of that god damn apartment! You are pissing me off!) and the characters here didn't seem to be able to tell that one risk was greater than the other.
The main story was great though, there's just some details in some of the plot points that could have used a little more work. I loved everything else in the movie, especially Rapace kicking ass.