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What Happened to Monday

Netflix Movie 🎥 Review: â€œWhat Happened to Monday". Critics gave it a 59% the users an 66%. Rated: TV MA with a running time of 2hrs and 3mins with an IMDb of 6.9/10. Main Cast:  Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close and Willem Dafoe just to name a few.

In a world where families are allowed only one child due to overpopulation, resourceful identical septuplets must avoid governmental execution and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.

What Happened to Monday (known as Seven Sisters in Canada, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Slovakia and Japan) is a 2017 dystopian science fiction thriller film, written by Max Botkin and Kerry Williamson, directed by Tommy Wirkola. The film was released theatrically in Europe and Asia and Netflix bought the streaming rights to the film for the United States as well as the U.K. and Latin America. Netflix released the film on August 18, 2017.

I honestly don't understand the bad reviews behind this film. It should be intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that to enjoy any motion picture, you have to enable their sense of disbelief. Meaning when you watch a fantasy film or show you don't question the reality of wands, spells, dragons, etc. Instead, you allow yourself to be immersed within the story. After all, the entire point of art is to transport yourself within the world of the artist. 

First off let me start by saying that I did not expect this movie to play out the way it did. The acting by Noomi Rapace is nothing but phenomenal. The movie does have the basic, typical plot in regards to the whole dystopia and one child policy that has been seen before. However, the notion of the seven sisters working together to survive was what made this storyline unique. Although Noomi played seven roles, each character had the chance of sharing their story and distinctive traits. I definitely recommend this movie. Netflix pulled this movie out of a hat for sure!