After 30-odd years of success, the Days are found out and in a sudden race against time. *First Published: Aug 18, 2017, 6:00 am The action sequences are fast-moving and well-choreographed with Rapace selling the action sequences as we know she can. 3.8 out of 5. But it really shines in the action scenes, with bodies flying all around. What Happened to Monday was on the Black List, a list of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. The movie takes place several years in the future in a dystopian society where overpopulation is a crisis, food shortages […] A ludicrous, violent, amusingly dumb sci-fi actioner from Tommy Wirkola that casts Noomi Rapace as septuplets battling a dystopian regime.
What Happened To Monday? It’s more than enough to make up for any plot or dialogue deficiencies. But why her bloodthirsty goons go about it in such piecemeal fashion is not, except that this way we get a lot of Noomi Rapaces fighting and dying in a lot of different ways. Few things are more depressing in moviedom than films that squander a great premise. Reception. Still with us? Enter Terrence Settman (Willem Dafoe) and his septuplets (named Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday… I think you can guess the rest). She logged three tours as Lisbeth Salander with the The plan, concocted and overseen by Nicolette Caymen (Glenn Close) and enforced by the Child Allocation Bureau, has dramatic results, but in the same way shoving clothes and toys in a closet makes a room look clean. The actress manages to turn a derivative sci-fi movie into something slightly more exciting. OK. Thirty years later, the combined skillset of Monday through Sunday, now all played by Rapace and differentiated by hairstyle and/or single character attribute (clever, blonde, bossy, sporty, etc.) The Days are easy to track, and each character has her own physicality. What Happened to Monday — Review. And so governments have instigated a draconian one-child policy by which any additional siblings born will be forcibly cryogenically frozen until an unspecified future date when everything will be copacetic. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. 3.8 out of 5 stars. I’ll let you figure out how they choose their days.The movie moves along at a snappy pace and before we know it there are seven fully grown Noomi Rapaces. For a story with a somewhat convoluted plot, it’s easy to follow. Locarno Film Review: ‘What Happened to Monday’ A ludicrous, violent, amusingly dumb sci-fi actioner from Tommy Wirkola that casts Noomi Rapace as septuplets battling a dystopian regime. The filmmaking and acting that sell the scenes where the Days are all in a room together are impressive.
But that job brings “Karen” into conflict with perma-smirking co-worker Jerry (Pål Sverre Hagen) who hints darkly that he “knows her secret” and could not more obviously be a smokescreen for the real baddie if he were played by an actual red herring. Despite his name-choosing acumen, Settman is a good dad. She channels her inner Tatiana Maslany to give each of her characters distinct personalities. He teaches the girls and raises them as best he can. As anyone who has played hide and seek knows, you can’t stay hidden forever. But this is a movie that speaks better with its fists than with its mouth.Eddie Strait is a member of the Austin Film Critic Association. In Tommy Wirkola’s What Happened to Monday, it is 2073, and Europe has been lumped into an authoritarian superstate referred to only as “the Federation.” Because of severe overpopulation, a strict one-child policy has been instated.
Then Monday mysteriously disappears, and Cayman’s interchangeably steroidal henchmen come after the remaining sisters. It is the Near Future and grievous overpopulation has led to overreliance on GM crops which cause abnormally high instances of multiple births. The scenes are mostly situated in their home to understand the claustrophobic nature of their situation.