Spoilers

This has been on my watch list for a while, & i really do want to know what happened to monday & why this is the case, so yeh lets give this a shoot. I mean it cant be bad can it. Altho ive said that with quite a few netflix originals recently & they have been.

Its a good concept, which starts off good, then get boring then gets generic & then gets very weird & political, then trys to be more than it is but end up just being a bit meh at the end. So yea typical netflix original where theyve spent money on 2 names & tried to get the rest of the cast to work around it.

The concept is really really good, but after about 40minutes becomes generic & takes another 50mintues to get going & be more again. The idea that you can only have one child in the future & this grandfather hides his 7 granddaughters at home & works out how to keep them all safe until one day years upon years later is good. But i wish it just stayed like that & how their lives planned out & didnt get very generic & then political for the end. Okay i get a one child policy is the case for politics to start with but it was just then too much.

Willem Dafoe is the best pert of the film. Only seen at the start & then flashback throughout, explaining why the girls are like they are & what he put in place to keep them safe, including when one had and accident & ruined one of her fingers so the other 6 all had to have the same thing done to them. I mean it does make them stronger, however its interesting that they all then picked up a different skill & purpose in life, despite being the same boring generic person at the end of the day.

Noomi Rapace is okay as the 7 alternatives but if im honest i only care about a couple of the girls (thursday & friday) & the generic Karen they all take turns in being isnt very nice either. I just didnt connect to anymore, i really wanted to too.

Glen Close being in charge is good casting but shes not in it enough to care when it turns out shes double crossed everyone & instead of protecting the younger siblings in cryosleep that she & her people have killed them all. Thats when the film went from generic & predictable to a little bit omfg & political. I mean i had worked out these kids werent safe, but i didnt think they would do this to liek 7 year olds. That was a bit much.

Fridays sacrifice is the most important of them all. I always thought she would be one of the ones to get through it being a techy, so her death is like what the hell. & then they can still use tech linked to her & her set up to save the world.

All the fight scene & chases arent all that if im honest. I mean i could tell you from the start of each where they were going to go & what was going to happen. It just felt a little to predictable & easy for the story. I mean anyone whos watched this film, did you really thing every day of the week was making it out alive? if you did fool on you.

Jerry was a complete dick, he deserved the death he got, 1000%. So did monday.

So they are saving the world with a one child policy to save the food & crops for everyone, however most people in the film are pregnant with twins or triplets? so whatever they are putting on the crops & food to make them safe & last for people obviously makes them more fertile. Thats not a good system is it.

So has anyone ever been to a posh bar or restaurant ever & had a fight & a sink or toilet break that easily? this isnt just a question for this film, but all Hollywood movies. Seriously, ive seen people have full on fights in nightclubs in town & throw people about (always watching never participating) & ive never seen a sink or toilet smash that easily. Sorry films can we stop that please.

Its also so easy to beat up a team of trained security people & hack into their system to broadcast a live murder the the rest of the world. Yeah like that would happen.

I did spend ages going who the fuck is the love interest i know that guy before going ahh its bloody Jafar from Aladdin & the random guy from the Mummy film no one talks about because its bad. Then it all made sense.

I know we spend most of the film looking for monday but once they work out about the double cross & that shes betrayed them i dont care anymore, thats where the film lost me. Also (& i know you shouldnt judge a film but its poster) them all doing the leap of faith on that & then only really having one do it in the film was a bit of a like oh come on movie at least deliver that to us. Maybe i worked out the betrayal to early on in the film, which ruined the surprise, but i dont think i did.

Those check points were a waste of time, im sorry they were. You have to use them everyday, nah not buying that. Maybe once a month to check the details are correct going through them but still

As far as a concept & styling of a film goes its a brilliant idea, & Dafoe is brilliant in the 10 minutes hes in as the over protective grandparent but in the end, it just end up being pedestrian & full of politics & not actually having as big a grand showdown as we want. Yes you get a happy ending with 2 of the sisters surviving & the guy from Aladdin & those two twins, but other than that, it just felt a little bit hollow. It had potential to be so much more, & run with it, but it just missed the mark, which is a shame. It should have been epic in the right hands.