Maggie

 

Maggie 2015

• Director: Henry Hobson
• Based on novel: no
• Cast: Arnold Schwartzeneggar, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in
• Arnold Schwartzeneggar – Terminator et al, The Running Man
• Abigail Breslin – Zombieland 1&2, Little Miss Sunshine
• Joely Richardson – Snowden, Mimzy, Return to Me
• Why? The cast, zombies
• Seen: 7 August 2024 

Teen-aged Maggie (Breslin) has been infected with the epidemic illness that turns its victims into zombies. She should be in quarantine but her dad (Schwartzeneggar) brings her home to the farm. It will be two weeks before the symptoms worsen and Maggie becomes violent and dangerous.

Breslin has been in zombie films before, Zombieland 1&2. Those films are funny. This one is grim. It’s very sad, heavy, and realistic. A little slow and plodding at times maybe, but this isn’t an action thriller. It’s about a widower whose duaghter is dying. 

4* of 5