Film Review – What Happened to Monday

As a director, Tommy Wirkola is a wily one. He rose to prominence with 2009’s “Dead Snow,” which pitted vacationers against zombie Nazis, toying with subgenre parody while playing it all with violent intensity, coming up with something different where few others could. Wirkola graduated to Hollywood attention with “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters,” permitted him access to a large budget and global attention, still managing to preserve his sick sense of humor. Eventually returning to his roots with “Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead” (a grand improvement over the original), Wirkola now graduates to more sobering fare with “What Happened to Monday,” which strives to provide vigorous action/mystery beats while essentially detailing the end of the world. “What Happened to Monday” is twisty and pitiless, but it retains Wirkola’s interests in aggressive confrontations, often sold with subtle cheekiness. It doesn’t feature the engorged fantasy flow of his earlier efforts, showcasing a maturing of sorts for a man who’s made two movies about zombie Nazis.  Read the rest at Blu-ray.com