What Happened to Monday

Name: What Happened to Monday
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery
Released: August 18, 2017
Duration: 123 min
Rating: 47
Cast: Adetomiwa Edun, Cameron Jack, Cassie Clare, Christian Rubeck, Clara Read

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): August 18, 2017 | TV-MA

Starring: Adetomiwa Edun, Cameron Jack, Cassie Clare, Christian Rubeck, Clara Read, Glenn Close, Jeppe Laursen, Kirsty Averton, Lara Decaro, Marwan Kenzari, Noomi Rapace, Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen, Robert Wagner, Willem Dafoe

Summary: In a not so distant future, where overpopulation and famine have forced governments to undertake a drastic One-Child Policy, seven identical sisters (Noomi Rapace) live a hide-and-seek existence pursued by the Child Allocation Bureau. The Bureau, directed by the fierce Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close), enforces a strict family-planning agendaIn a not so distant future, where overpopulation and famine have forced governments to undertake a drastic One-Child Policy, seven identical sisters (Noomi Rapace) live a hide-and-seek existence pursued by the Child Allocation Bureau. The Bureau, directed by the fierce Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close), enforces a strict family-planning agenda that the sisters outwit by taking turns assuming the identity of one person: Karen Settman. Taught by their grandfather (Willem Dafoe) who raised and named them - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday - each can go outside once a week as their common identity, but are only free to be themselves in the prison of their own apartment. That is until, one day, Monday does not come home.… Expand

Director: Tommy Wirkola

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 123 min

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The Playlist Joe Blessing

Aug 18, 2017

Even in a future bereft of new ideas, it’s fun to watch Noomi Rapace act against herself six times over and her game performances in the midst of fast-paced action make What Happened to Monday? a mostly enjoyable thriller. Read full review

Sam Fragoso

Aug 20, 2017

Wirkola is more comfortable engaging with gunfire than people. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Aug 17, 2017

Links between climate change, population growth, and a potentially catastrophic worldwide famine are reduced to background plot points. The moral/ethical conundrums of the “solution” are paid lip service but not aggressively integrated into the story. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

Aug 9, 2017

Wirkola, who’s best known for his two “Dead Snow” zombie movies, struggles to tackle a more serious-minded tone this time around. Read full review

Noel Murray

Aug 17, 2017

Fans of outsized genre fare should appreciate how much fun Rapace appears to be having, showing off different skills in different wigs. Her enthusiasm doesn’t make this a good movie, but it does makes it likable. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Aug 16, 2017

The intriguingly bonkers premise rests somewhat soundly on matters of climate change, overpopulation and genetic engineering, but its most burning question is “Are seven Noomi Rapaces better than one?” To which the answer is a resounding “Sure, why not?” Read full review

Keith Watson

Aug 13, 2017

Tommy Wirkola’s film squanders an evocative premise in favor of rote gun-fu carnage. Read full review

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andreadavided

Aug 18, 2017

I DO NOT understand how this movie has such a low score. It was GLORIOUS. I didn't like a movie so much in years. The actress plays 7 different people and it works ! Totally amazing Sci-fi in dystopian future where they put kids on Ice to fight overpopulation. GOT WATCH IT.

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SirRandallGames

Oct 28, 2017

The movie is amazing. I Get some people don't like the movie but giving it a zero because of people giving it a 10. It's a great sci-fi in a over populated world. I think its a good take on a theme that has been done before. If you like a decent sci-fi this movie is great.

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Nazario08

Aug 17, 2018

É um filme 70% verdadeiro, onde podemos ver que é uma realidade não tão distante, pois o aquecimento global está sim acontecendo, junto do aumento populacional. Logo não haverá nem água e nem comida, o que obrigará os cientistas a usarem a genética ao seu favor, dando início a muitos erros.É um filme 70% verdadeiro, onde podemos ver que é uma realidade não tão distante, pois o aquecimento global está sim acontecendo, junto do aumento populacional. Logo não haverá nem água e nem comida, o que obrigará os cientistas a usarem a genética ao seu favor, dando início a muitos erros.

Realmente a única coisa que me incomodou no filme foram a quantidade de diálogos clichês, do tipo “aah vamos nos livrar dessa”, algumas vezes pareceu ser uma malhação futurística, mas ainda não sei se é por conta da dublagem, pois essas conversas desnecessárias durante o filme fazem com que a atuação dos atores seja duvidosa.… Expand

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Voodoo123

Jan 15, 2018

Enjoyable if predictable dystopian sci-fi with septuplet identical siblings sharing a single identity as its central theme. Impressive cast deliver above average performances in this action heavy film.

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JLuis_001

Sep 9, 2017

A flamboyant film by Netflix that showed a very interesting subject, which it definitively holds, unfortunately it gets lost very soon, victim of its own inability to create a more cohesive and fast-paced narrative, because with a hundred and twenty three minutes of length this movie hasA flamboyant film by Netflix that showed a very interesting subject, which it definitively holds, unfortunately it gets lost very soon, victim of its own inability to create a more cohesive and fast-paced narrative, because with a hundred and twenty three minutes of length this movie has some extra thirty useless minutes where something more dynamic could had been achieved, especially because the film only has two action sequences when it could be done much more, especially if you take into account that the movie makes a terrible narrative mistake in one of them by stopping all the action in order to give space to another sequence that while necessary it completely messed up what was happening at the moment.

The work of Noomi Rapace is excellent playing seven characters, but although while she manages to give them its distinctive features comes a point in which none of the sisters seems different, I do not say that is her fault because the situations of the script compel her to it.
Also is sad to see Willem Dafoe and Glenn Close being so underappreciated and wasted but I think that for their careers it's already a plus to keep working.

I did not like the ending because practically when they explain the reason why everything happened, it feels somewhat artificial considering the selfishness of Monday who planned to sacrifice the lives of her six sisters for the two that would make her a mother.

Although the film never points to it because in the end it criminalizes it, it is very true the argument branch of the enormous over-population that is happening worldwide and nobody is doing anything to stop it.
It is true that the film was not obliged to deal with the subject but should not have abandoned it so easily.

It's not a bad movie, I think it will mostly entertain you, it will not be memorable but at least it was not a failure.… Expand

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SquaredRen

Sep 7, 2017

I liked how this movie had no fear on being violent with lots of blood, and the main character had to make this awesome job to play 7 different persons, those things I admire but...everything else is bad. This movie once it starts you know where is going, very predictable and that makes theI liked how this movie had no fear on being violent with lots of blood, and the main character had to make this awesome job to play 7 different persons, those things I admire but...everything else is bad. This movie once it starts you know where is going, very predictable and that makes the job of this actress to just be forgetable, therefore, it's a turnoff. Overall, nothing much else to say, you will forget it.… Expand

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rw2718

Jan 9, 2018

Awful movie that creates an artificial demonization of people facing up to the issues caused by overpopulation and glorifies people who take food out of others' mouths. Thin, unbelievable plot and cardboard villains. The only thing missing was Glenn Close twirling her mustache.

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