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.
WHAT HAPPENED TO MONDAY aka SEVEN SISTERS (2017) REVIEW
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:scroll: Plot: In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own named Monday.
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:man:⚖ Review : Directed by Tommy Wirkola and starring Noomi Rapace this action sci drama has a very promising premise unlike anything you have seen before. The Premise sets the tone of a brilliant and engaging flick.The Action Sequences are overwhelming and tightly edited screenplay makes it worth a watch. The Direction is brilliant.
Noomi Rapace is a gifted actress and she once again proves this. She offers each of her characters their own identity, personality, flaws, and strengths. I can't imagine how she played so many roles in a single movie so perfectly.
Overall , With many dystopian futuristic movies What Happened to Monday stands out due to its uniqueness. What it on Netflix now to know what i mean.
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:thumbsup:Goods :
1. Noomi Rapace
2. Action Stunts Choreography
3. Screenplay
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:fire: Final Rating : 7.5/10
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:white_check_mark: Verdict : Not the Best out there, but is definitely worth a watch.
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Review by Enrico CamillieriBlockedParent2019-03-20T10:58:47Z
An interesting concept that could have been executed better.
The dystopian premise is fascinating, even though it requires the audience to suspend its disbelief more times than I think its reasonable (For example, are we to believe that with all the technology we see in the movie, the best solution to twins is to "freeze" them? I think even today there are procedures to abort one twin.). That aside, the movie start as a captivating thriller. While searching for Monday, the other sisters have to pretend everything is normal. Too bad that towards the end the movie turns into an action movie, forgetting its thriller start.
Cinematography was decent, not spectacular but acceptable. The action scene felt "blurry" to me, too many quick cuts.
Noomi Rapace acted great. The scenes with all the siblings at once felt natural and that's a great accomplishment to the actress and the whole editing team. The siblings were differenciated enough to not cause problem following the story, though they were not very profound characters (one was nerdy, one was athletic, the blonde was ditzy etc.). I don't know why the main character had an accent when everyone around them did not. I know that Rapace is swedish, but it makes no sense.
It's not a bad movie. With a better, less rushed ending it would have been so much better.
6/10