There is so much being thrown at the audience that it's hard to keep track of what is going on. This happens about 30 minutes into the film, but it feels more like an hour. As the movie's title suggests, the siblings try to solve the mystery of what happened to their sister. One day, Monday goes out to work but never returns home. Each child is named after a day of the week and is only allowed to go into the public on that day, in order to avoid being discovered. Because of the one-child-per-family law, he is forced to keep them largely secret. The story quickly begins to unfold, as Terrence Settman (Willem Dafoe) faces the task of raising a set of septuplets after his wife dies during childbirth.

It's a science-fiction world that doesn't feel too far off from our own, which helps create a solid connection between the audience and the movie. Regardless, all of this creates an interesting atmosphere. It's a bit confusing-as well as distracting-to see a science-fiction movie take so many staunch stances in the opening minutes of the film. It's quite a bit to take in, and there are more bizarre elements sprinkled in: GMOs cause people to have multiple babies at once, overpopulation will kill everyone, and climate change will end humanity's ability to grow crops. The CAB gives citizens identity bracelets to wear at all times, and families who break the new law see their kids put into cryosleep, where they'll wake up in a supposedly much better future where all of the world's problems have been solved.īefore the actual story is introduced, this information is dumped on the audience. In a fictionalized version of the United States where having more than one child is illegal, a police state is formed that is guided by the Child Allocation Bureau (CAB). It's a movie that tries to be a lot of things, but if you forget about the convoluted story, What Happened To Monday can be a fun ride.

While the movie's identity is constantly shifting between genres, it never becomes a drag thanks in large part to the dynamic acting from the lead.

It tries to be many different things, from a detective story to an action film to an overly complicated conspiracy theory. What Happened To Monday is a dystopian film taking place in a futuristic police state that is bathed in expositional dialogue, and it hits Netflix on August 18.

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