![]() ![]() This is a fun little B-movie, high on action but low on sci-fi imagination, and the central premise will not seem so far flung for anyone who remembers China’s one-child policy. I only wish the storyline of What Happened to Monday lived up to the performance by its lead actress. ![]() It’s an impressive feat that I cannot recall another actor achieving Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, and Eddie Murphy all relied on makeup and prosthetics to craft their unique personalities. ![]() – she manages to successfully convey all of them through the same identical exterior. And while each of Rapace’s characters is somewhat stereotypical – the tough girl, the lover, the pothead, the computer nerd, etc. That means that while Rapace’s characters have different costumes and hairstyles at home throughout the film, for large portions of it in the outside world they look exactly the same. Her characters – each named for the single day of the week that they can venture outside their spacious apartment home – are not only identical twins, but must also play the same person to the outside world. ![]() In a just world, however, she’d get Awards Season recognition for her work in Monday, in which she plays seven identical twins that pass themselves off as a single person in a dystopian future where having more than one child is strictly forbidden. Rapace became an instant star after shining as the titular Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but it’s a role that has defined her subsequent career despite emphatic work in Hollywood films like Prometheus, The Drop, and De Palma’s underrated Passion, she’ll be forever known as Lisbeth Salander. Most actors have a difficult enough time crafting one distinct character within the confines of a two-hour feature film, but Noomi Rapace delivers no less than seven compelling performances in the nifty new sci-fi flick What Happened to Monday, directed by Tommy Wirkola. ![]()
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