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.
Review of What Happened to Monday
