Monday, June 29, 2015

Maggie (2015)

I'll say it from start: if you want to see a zombie movie skip "Maggie". Look for something else. Even if you want to see a different approach to a zombie movie, still ... look for something else. However, if you want a proof that Schwarzenegger can act ... then you can spend one hour and a half for this. I'm not talking about an Oscar performance, but it was something like the revelation I had more than ten years ago when I've watched Wesley Snipes in "Liberty Stands Still". Schwarzenegger in a drama role of a troubled father, totally atypical, which is carried successfully up to the end credits, is probably the only positive aspect of this movie. A completely opposite shallow performance does Abigail Breslin, holding the leading part of Maggie, a girl infected by a zombification virus, who's health is slowly degrading. The script doesn't help. Neither the directing, the cinematography, the sound, nothing. It's a slow movie that seems to take more time than it does, and probably deserves watching mostly if you want to see something to make you sleepy before bed-time ... probably a paradox in the zombie movie range.

Rating: 2 out of 5



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