Do I have your attention?
Mondaystarts off with simmering, claustrophobic tension.
The seven sisters are named for their appointed day of walking around outside.
Credit: Netflix
They look the same, but theyre all a little different.
Tuesdays gray (and Wednesday, too).
Thursdays doesnt care about you.
Friday Friday has gotta get down on Friday.
Everyones worried about Saturdays night fever, and Sunday comes afterward.
If youre thinking this is Noomi RapaceOrphan Blacking, youre not wrong.
The first scene around the dinner table with seven variations of the Swedish actress will give you Maslany flashbacks.
Then one day guess which one!
Monday goes to work and doesnt come home.
Can her sisters rescue her, or are they walking into a trap?
The material could be a sensitive inquiry into identity or a tense corpo-core future thriller.
Thats the vibe from the first half; its a bit of a snooze.
Wirkola directedHansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.
SoMondayheel-turns into B-movie delightfulness with the most unexpected action scene of the summer.
Its a rough and tumble showdown: Bad Dudes With Guns vs. a Regiment of Rapaces.
Lets just say Rapace has more death scenes thanPrometheushad xenomorphs.
Mondays being released here on Netflix.
(Abroad, its titledSeven Sisters; when did we stop giving crazy movies crazy names?)
There was a moment circa 2011 when everyone seemed to know and love her Lisbeth Salander.
That films rise to streaming prominence was an early sign of streamings prominence.
She gives seven performances; at least four are good.
Its an audition for smarter roles than Hollywoods been giving her, maybe.
Or maybe its a wigstore-raiding lark.
Little surprises like that makeMondayone of those movies that you used to rent on a lark from Blockbuster.
With a movie like that, surprising not-badness is better than expected goodness.
Does that sound like faint praise?
I miss those surprisingly not-bad Blockbuster movies.
To quote the great critic Homer Simpson, Im afraid this gets my lowest rating ever: Seven thumbs up.B
