WHAT HAPPENED TO MONDAY

(2017) Also known as Seven Sisters, Netflix's What Happened to Monday is - at its best - a stylish, edge-of-your-seat thriller starring an exceptional Noomi Rapace as the Settman sisters ... seven identical siblings living in hiding since birth because of a dystopian world where - in the very near future - overpopulation has gotten so bad, a One-Child law is enacted, with any additional children being frozen and held on ice for a future when enough space and resources can be found to allow them to live freely again.  For the Settman girls, whose mother died giving birth to them, it was their grandfather Terrence (Willem Dafoe) who couldn't bear to turn six of them in, so he raised them in a large upper-floor apartment with several hidden rooms, giving each girl the name of a day of the week because that was the one day she could go out into society and publicly be the one and only "Karen Settman" - the identity all seven girls would end up taking on, on their one day a week out.  After a quick set-up of the siblings and society, we flash-forward thirty-plus years to a Monday morning, and sister Monday leaving for work to give an important presentation as her other siblings look on (grandpa has since passed).  Each sister, once home at the end of the workday, details everything that happened to her siblings, so that none of them have trouble keeping up the Karen facade even at work ... but on this workday Monday never comes home after work, and her sisters don't know what the heck to do.  Because in this world everyone walking around outside is constantly scanned and accounted for, Grandpa brought the girls up terrified of going outdoors, unless she was the girl playing Karen that day, but now as Monday remains missing ... and then Tuesday, heading to work the next day as Karen to try and find out what's going on, also disappears ... the rest of the septuplets realize the Child Allocation Bureau - headed by the cold-as-ice Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close) - might be onto them, so they have no choice but to act.  Noomi Rapace is kind of incredible as all seven Settman girls, Close true to form as the icy politico with her own agenda, and as the plot unravels and the sisters seem to be doomed, true motives and betrayals come to light with enough surprises to give this twisty, original film the equally WTF? ending it deserves. A heck of an entertaining, very believable and suspenseful film, even with its over-the-top plot, thanks to the smart casting of its seven leads in Rapace. (not rated)  9/10 stars