Netflix Recommendations 2.0 *READ FIRST POST*

Really enjoying Atypical

Watched Whatever Happened to Monday last night and enjoyed it. It's gotten some very mixed reviews but I think they were overly harsh. It's very much a genre piece but it seems to be getting castigated for not trying to be more intelligent than it actually is. I can understand some of the points being made in terms of the seven sisters being reduced to cliched stereotypes of different women but with a 2 hour length and a pretty convoluted plot in the mix, some of the sisters are going to end up being broad sketches rather than intimate portraits. Noomi Rapace's performance gets unfavourably compared to Tatiana Maslany's brilliant work on Orphan Black but again I think that's a tad unfair in terms of a two hour film versus a show with several seasons. Close and Dafoe are probably a bit wasted in it given their minor roles but they're always good to watch.

Like I've already said, the plot is pretty convoluted - especially when you're trying to describe to your missus what happened in the end when she fell asleep for the last 15 minutes - but most of the exposition is dealt with in a voiceover sequence at the beginning. From then on the movie cracks along at a decent pace. I saw the ending coming from about 25 minutes in but I still enjoyed the ride. I'm sure there's plot holes aplenty if you analyse it in any great depth but I kind of switched off the brain and enjoyed the action for what it was.