smerph
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.
The Couchpotatoes
IMDb should definitely put this movie in the sci-fi genre as we are in the future with special gadgets, and with a story that completely looks sci-fi even though this might become reality one day. The planet is already overpopulated and the future isn't bright if not disastrous. A one child policy will one day become inevitable if you like it or not. That's what I liked so much about What Happened To Monday, the well brought story of a near future, and all this with a good twist. The main actor is Noomi Rapace, who could it be else as she plays seven different characters, and she did an excellent job doing that. The rest of the cast was also good. It is a long movie but you never have a dull moment or a boring feeling, and that's already exceptional for a movie that lasts more than two hours. Good action combined with an interesting story, what else could we ask for?
english_artist
I really enjoyed this movie. I must admit I was a little hesitant at first to watch it as I thought it would be to political and boring but it was anything but.The idea of limiting the amount of children people can have is a clever idea and makes the movie more believable as you can imagine this happening in real life.The movie was well acted and well directed with some good tense scenes like the characters going through check points etc and some clever plot tactics like sending you off in one direction while it goes another way making it hard to see the final plot. The effects were also excellent with great action scenes and some tense stand-offsThis has to be one of the better sci-fi movies I have seen in a while with a clever well written plot which is also original and great characters. There were some holes in the plot though which did leave me confused but a great movie and worth a watch
miniktroya
Honestly was not expecting this movie to be that good when I saw the trailer. I usually can guess the endings of Netflix movies. But with this movie, even though there weren't any major plot twists, i was impressed by the plot. The acting was very well done. I think this movie deserves a higher score.
AD
