Bingeworthy: Netflix's 'What Happened to Monday' is silly sci-fi fun times seven | Entertainment and Lifestyles
Why have just one Noomi Rapace, when you can have seven? That seems to be the idea behind the gonzo sci- fi action movie “What Happened to Monday”, which premieres Friday on Netflix. It takes a silly premise to ridiculous lengths, but it is undeniably entertaining. And if you like Rapace, you literally cannot get enough of her in this movie. The movie takes place in a future where the Earth is severely overpopulated, leading to famine and civil unrest. A leading government scientist (Glenn Close) proposes a “one-family, one-child” policy, with a severe twist. Any children beyond that government-sanctioned only child are put into cryogenic suspended animation , taking a deep sleep until the world finds a permanent solution to its population problems. (“Awake to a better world” is the slogan for the icky ads that the government uses to sell the policy to the public.) So if having two kids is a crime, having seven is a real problem. Rapace plays all seven identical twin sisters , each ...