What Happened To Monday: The Pleasantly Stupid, Campy,

Jos Wettstein
4/25/18
Mr.Routery
Eng 100
Word count: 1382
What Happened To Monday: The Pleasantly Stupid, Campy, Sci-Fi Film Director Tommy Wirkola casts Noomi Rapace as dystopian septuplets in the risible, brutal, and pleasantly stupid sci-fi action film. Tommy Wirkola has been directing movies since his first film Kill Bulji in 2007, and his most recent, What Happened To Monday (Tiffany, Kaitlyn). In only eleven years of directing, he’s been very successful. The original script written by Max Botkin made it to the blacklist in 2010 (Staff, Indiewire). From there, there was a gender swap, a rewrite, and change in title. At this point, the script was rich in plot holes, but Tommy Wirkola, writer of Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, turned

After the threat, Monday strangely goes missing, while some of Cayman’s Aryan thugs come after the remaining siblings. Cayman makes the mission to destroy the seven as a secret. Then admits, “the survival of these women will destroy my credibility!”

As Cayman’s evil henchmen go about destroying the seven in the most gruesome ways, the special effects are exploited. This resulted in amazing action ( toilet bowl head smashing, hot water burning faces, being shot in mid-air, jumping into empty trash cans, and eye gouging). All of which created a very intensely gruesome and realistic, “ouch that would’ve hurt” eye squinting reaction. These scenes resulted in Noomi Rapace dying and killing in many different ways, making the movie an intriguing, popcorn sensation.

Belgian visual effects company, Benuts, is an incredibly talented group of creative skill. One of the company’s recent projects was What Happened To Monday. The amount of special effects used in this film is very spectacular, on a technical level this was very impressive. Most of the special effects consisted of blending footage of Noomi together (What Happened To Monday Review). This created the illusion that the sisters were interacting, which was very convincing. In fact, I thought there were really seven siblings, with no special effects, until

Afterward hee-hawing all the way back to the bank. Tommy’s movie, however, is different in the bold lack of cognizance: the film not only doesn’t realize how idiotic it is, it gives the sense that it thinks it’s indeed smart. It’s a rather hectic conglomeration of campy, complex and enjoyable plotting, doubtful philosophy, and constant scenes of Noomi Rapace passing food and talking to herself. Without a doubt one of the most advanced movies I have seen in terms of special effects, acting, and plot. If you find this intriguing, and you’re looking for a new movie to watch ten times over and notice something new, then What Happened To Monday is the movie for