Trying to hide one extra child from the Bureau is hard enough, but Terrence Setten (a miscast Willem Dafoe) is tasked with the impossible after his estranged daughter dies giving birth to identical septuplet girls. One would think that cryogenics would cost the world even more resources than just allowing these people to live normal lives, but that’s just one of the many things about What Happened to Monday that doesn’t make much sense. The Child Allocation Bureau, led by the coolly ambitious Nicolette Cayman ( Glenn Close, channeling her time as Cruella DeVille), is established to round up any siblings and place them in cryosleep, where they will unconsciously await the day when the world has enough resources to support their existence. In this case, the world is suffering from extreme overpopulation, so much so that a Child Allocation Act has been passed to limit families to having only one child. The film opens in 2073 with an old science-fiction genre standby – a montage of news clips establishing the current state of the world. However, thanks to Rapace, it’s still a lot of fun. Directed by Tommy Wirkola ( Dead Snow, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters ) from a script that was featured on the 2010 Blacklist for best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, What Happened to Monday is a dystopian science-fiction story with more holes than your average slice of Swiss cheese. And while the film itself is little more than a bargain basement version of BBC America’s critically acclaimed clone-stravaganza Orphan Black, it’s still the best showcase for Rapace’s talents since she hung up Salander’s leather jacket. In both, Rapace’s star power outshone the mediocre material.īut why isn’t she given better material? Why do all the major leading roles for women go to the same assembly line of cookie-cutter American sweethearts when someone like Rapace is ready and waiting in the wings? Just Another Manic MondayĮnter What Happened to Monday, a film that gives Rapace not one, not two, but seven starring roles to sink her teeth into. Both films were the latest installments in the Alien and Sherlock Holmes franchises, respectively, and should have been big hits unfortunately, they were also incredibly disappointing.
That’s not to say she wasn’t absolutely fine as archaeologist Elizabeth Shaw in Prometheus, or as the gypsy fortune-teller Simza in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Yet since this star-making role, Rapace hasn’t been able to find another that so perfectly suits her unusual beauty, inherent toughness and uninhibited nature.
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