What Happened to Monday (2017)

Strong and Moving!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

When Monday vomited I know she was pregnant. When Monday disappeared I knew she was betraying the rest of the pack. Ain´t nice to know the whole plot after a few minutes into the movie. The movie is full with over-the-top action scenes with multiple Noomi Rapaces who are invincible like Arnie in an 80s flick.The bad guys are mostly morons and not capable of doing their jobs. Unrealistic and lame movie which even fails to address the important topic of Malthusian overpopulation properly.

The setup for this movie is great. Due to the extreme rules governing a dystopian future's overpopulation, seven twin sisters (all Noomi Rapace)are forced to assume a single personality; Karen Settman. Each of the sisters is named after the day of the week when they will face the world and take on the Karen persona. So Sunday is full of faith, Monday gets things done, Saturday is up for a good time and, well, the rest of them are not so obviously defined or developed in the limited screentime afforded them. Were this a novel, I'd imagine that the characters and their distinctive personalities would be emphasised and explained. As a movie, we're reliant on Rapace's attempts to distinguish the characters. This never really works due to the way it's essentially splitting a protagonist into 7 pieces and using wardrobe and make-up to fill in the gaps. My patience with the film lasted until around the 30th minute which was when the story ceased pretending to be intelligent. The interesting storyline of 7 sisters sharing a role is jettisoned when the charade is discovered, and the movie promptly changes direction into an action movie, with a succession of expendable heroes and a strange preoccupation with gore. I love a good action movie, but this is far from one. I quickly stopped caring for any of the characters and wish it had chosen to be intelligent sci-fi rather than redundant, low budget action.

Noomi Rapace must be the female equivalent to Taylor Kitsch. Every film she appears in is an unqualified near miss after first braking out as Lisbeth Salander in the original Girl w/The Dragon Tattoo trilogy. From Prometheus to Passion she's hooking up w/the right talent, Ridley Scott & Brian DiPalma to name a couple, but something happens when whatever sparked interest in said project gets warped traveling from the printed word to the filmed final result. I wish Monday would be the cure here but alas it ain't. Starting off as an interesting possible double bill to the excellent scifi'r Children of Men, this dreck devolves into the empty action set pieces of the Total Recall remake. People love sci-fi but that sci-fi has to be good. Some quirky car & set design can only go so far.

I wish I loved this like I thought I would...are we supposed to believe that coincidentally the sister named Sunday happened to be the christian type one and Saturday just ended up the wild partying one? Or that this woman is obsessed with finding these girls and has multiple goons rabidly determined to murder them? Why exactly is it so important that these specific girls die so much more than others? Why do they not have any emergency protocol to deal with their sister dying? Why were they not spending the 6 days each a week they had in that apartment preparing for something like that? Why does the child version of her not have an accent but the adults do? What was the sex scene supposed to add? Why does each girl have like one blatantly obvious personality trait? Why does one identical twin need glasses? And so on