

He takes the girls home, naming them for the seven days in the week. She left behind seven identical baby girls.

One man, Terrance Settman (Willem Dafoe), has a daughter who was kinda out there and she had died in childbirth. What they like to call the child allocation act. The kids are then being frozen and preserved to be released as soon as earth’s conditions are improved. Now, families with multiple siblings are being rounded up and carted away. But much to the horror of the government it also spiked and increase in multiple births. To rectify the nation’s food shortage, the government has genetically altered food, which solved the food shortage problem.

So, now there is a one child per family law. Give it a watch and see for yourself.In the future, the world has become overpopulated. What Happened to Monday debuts Friday, August 17th exclusively on Netflix. While most reviewers have praised its original concept, most critics have found the film underwhelming.Ĭollider ’s Matt Goldberg writes that What Happened to Monday “never lives up to its promising start, and by the end it becomes an utter chore.” Darren Franich at Entertainment Weekly, meanwhile, feels the film “meanders too much, never quite loses its layer of gray-grim seriousness, gets talky when you want it to get funky.” Still, any original science fiction offering is welcome in my book Netflix’s sci-fi offerings have been severely thinned-out as of late, filling up with CGI-bloated superhero movies rather than the thought-provoking forward-looking tales science fiction is known for. Early reviews haven’t been too kind on the film, though. Willem Dafoe and Glenn Close co-star, and was directed by Finnish filmmaker Tommy Wirkola ( Dead Snow, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters ). Rapace’s seven characters all feature a somewhat distinct look, giving the actress a chance to show off her physical acting prowess by making each one of the seven sisters look and ‘feel’ like a completely unique person.ĭespite being relatively under-hyped, the film boasts some A-list talent. The two-minute clip shows What Happened to Monday to be a dark, action-packed thriller full of quick cuts, gun fights, and choreographed fight scenes. In order to avoid detection from the malevolent Child Allocation Bureau, the seven sisters are forced to conceal their identities and live as if they are all one person.

The seven sisters live in a dystopian future in which overpopulation has led to a worldwide one-child policy. The film stars Swedish actress Noomi Rapace ( Prometheus, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ) as seven different characters – septuplets, actually. The streaming service released a clip today for the soon-to-be released science fiction film What Happened to Monday, a new original production which has received little attention. Netflix slipped this one under the radar. Noomi Rapace, Noomi Rapace, and Noomi Rapace.
