Imagine if Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton lived in modern times and decided to make a film about a Monday Morning where everything went wrong and you'd basically have--well--"Monday Morning". From Fleetstreet Films comes this very funny and interesting short film that's a head on homage to the silent film era that chronicles one of the worst Mondays anyone has possibly ever had. Our character Trevor has to get to work in thirty minutes, if not he'll be fired. So in only eleven minutes we watch everything under the sun happen to him, and it ends up being pretty damn funny.

Nate Edwards performs some hilarious comedic acting with great physical fumbles including one scene where he's trying to stop his car from rolling down the hill and in to traffic. By the climax, Trevor is waiting for a bus and begins getting attacked by literally everyone. But the funniest scene is the fight with the prima Donna who will not relent in torturing Trevor just so she can sit on the bench alone. The directing is faithful to all the silent films of the past with the black and white and film jumps that really made those classic films worth watching. "Monday Morning" is like "Groundhog's Day" but silent and really does harken back to the good old days of Chaplin. And what's funnier is, I've had days like these.

While the silent film era is long dead and buried, it's still nice to see some people experimenting with it in a non-pretentious unassuming manner. "Monday Morning" is a funny throwback to the silent films of Chaplin and Keaton, and I enjoyed it.

• Shooting took only one day.

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