6/19/2023 0 Comments Film what happend to monday![]() But these seven characters are never delineated clearly enough, often making it difficult to follow who’s who from scene to scene. Rapace does her best to bring some unique shading to each of the sisters, and it’s drolly amusing to see her argue with various versions of herself around the dinner table. The film never comes close to elaborating upon the contrast between collective public identity and fractured individual selves. And when one of the sisters goes missing, the rest desperately try to find her while simultaneously attempting to outrun the police. But Terrence Settman (Willem Dafoe) defies the law, raising his seven daughters in secret, allowing each of them to leave the apartment only once a week on the day assigned by their names, when they take on the persona of Karen. And so governments enforce a one-child policy, allowing parents to cryogenically freeze leftover children who can be revived if and when the crisis is resolved. With the world facing mass food shortages, science has responded by developing genetically modified foods, which produce an unusual side effect that only exacerbates the problem: a worldwide spike in multiple births. Which is a shame, because the film’s sci-fi dystopia-a future in which human overpopulation has led to a global ecological crisis-is inventive. ![]() But with its oddly self-serious tone and clunky, uninventive action, the film displays neither the craft nor the sense of fun to make up for its shallow conception and murky plotting. As an opportunity to watch Rapace kick some ass while donning various wigs, What Happened to Monday delivers a few B-movie thrills, such as a fight scene in which the actress faces off against herself. Rather than investigate the existential and ideological implications of the story’s conceit, the filmmakers settle for providing a suitably action-packed vehicle for Noomi Rapace, who plays septuplet sisters, each named after a day of the week. Tommy Wirkola’s What Happened to Monday squanders an evocative premise in favor of rote gun-fu carnage.
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