makka-00955

First of all, let's start with the preposterous. Seven girls, all named after the days of the week, hiding from a large corporation that is doing away with children to save the planet, by limiting the numbers of children born to one family to one and removing further siblings. That in itself is lunacy. Imagine the numbers of agents, the logistics of doing that in just one city. Add to that the storage facilities of said siblings alone should lead someone to question that. Yet, seemingly a small team of security and two henchmen can adequately manage this job quite easily. No-one asks why, if the idea is to keep kids in a 'humanely' indefinite sleep, they keep shooting the hell out of everyone and chasing them with guns. Yes folks it's another "the goverment might be lying to you "movies! I'll leave you to work out the rest of the highly ridiculous plot as you go. So, why a 6? Well, it's well acted and it keeps you engaged, but slightly disconnected, as you tend to focus on how they are doing the 'one actress seven parts' scenes. I think they spoiled this by making all seven girls so different, it would have worked far better if the differences were slight. We have one girl, as a stereotypical geek, but they need one for the computers; one rough-and-tumble lady to do the fighting etc etc. The scenes where there are multiple versions of the lead are pretty well done, but are a bit obvious at times and because no character can speak at the same time, it becomes a bit disjointed and not believable at times. For any actor pulling that off deserves great credit however. There is action aplenty, which helps to carry you through those obvious plot-holes and it's not unenjoyable. The pace picks up as the 30 year secret comes unstuck when one of the siblings goes missing and the remaining girls are now wanted and being hunted down. The ending isn't entirely unexpected - I'll say nothing about that except 'Running Man'. There are a few pet-hates of mine, namely bad extras in crowd scenes, which when not properly controlled by the director just take away believability and also bad CGI and props. In the crowd scene during Glen Close's speech all the photographers have identical rubby dummy cameras and the CGI contains repeated faces. That's nit-picking I know, but I noticed it. If you can suspend belief you will enjoy this, but it's no classic.