Maggie (2015)
Genre: Drama / Horror
Duration: 95 minuten
Country:
United States / Switzerland
Directed by: Henry Hobson
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin and Joely Richardson
IMDb score:
5,6 (48.902)
Releasedate: 8 May 2015
Maggie plot
"Don't Get Bitten."
A disease is raging in the US Midwest that is slowly turning the infected into zombies. Maggie is one of the infected. Her farmer father Wade decides to stay by her side even as she slowly turns into a cannibalistic zombie...
Actors and actresses
Wade Vogel
Maggie Vogel
Caroline
Holt
Bonnie
Dr. Kaplan
Trent
Allie
Bobby
Reviews & comments
Insignificance
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- 3220 messages
- 5589 votes
Failed zombie drama that is almost always in sadness mode. When a smile is involved, it immediately comes across as forced. It doesn't really work around Maggie. Visually Hobson sometimes tries something, although that faded filter doesn't make his film more attractive. The quiet soundtrack, with some ambient and acoustic strumming, does what it's supposed to do, but the drama of the infection barely manages to bridge the gap.
Already within half an hour that it starts to pull hard. Breslin can't manage it and that big one isn't much use in this kind of work either. Occasionally the two evoke some sympathy, but the film loses that again when it starts to turn on with a boyfriend and the mother. That mainly works in the opposite direction. Somewhere there is a subdued drama hidden in it, but this way it whines and trudges too much to make it out of it.
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Collins
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- 7452 messages
- 4430 votes
Nice little movie unlike most movies that feature zombies. They often excel in mass fights, mass rushes and mass panic. The gore also plays an important role in those films. Vulgarity rulez in those movies. None of this is at all an issue here.
Not a traditional zombie movie. Few zombie activities. Hardly any splatter. Hardly any confrontations. The zombie virus is present as an underlying threat and turns the world gray. The zombies themselves are barely visible.
In this sad world a small and human drama takes place. The film tells an endearing story. The degeneration of a human being could be the subtitle. A degeneration that is very poignantly portrayed by Abigail Breslin in a sensitive role.
The film is about a father's love for a daughter. It's about a father's struggle to let go. About saying goodbye. About inhumane choices. About the powerlessness and the unwillingness to do so. Drama and more drama. Fortunately, also occasionally supplemented with some horror so that the film does not go completely through in a dramatic sense.
Yet sadness prevails. The pain and gloom are clearly visible in Schwarzenegger's face. He hardly speaks. So well acted. He is helped by murky and pale yellow images that, together with a melancholy score, emphasize the tragedy of the situation. And that works. It's tragic. Moving too.
Schwarzenegger has a really good role. Very different than I know him. Think 80s-90s and tough action hero. Not here. Subdued and without a single sharp humorous one-liner, he holds his own on the acting level. Surprisingly.
And in a good movie too.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
A zombie film that doesn't rely on blood or gore elements, it's something different. In fact, there are hardly any zombies in Maggie. Maggie is therefore not a classic horror film with zombies, but is actually a drama film with a context of a world under attack by zombies. In itself a good starting point, but for a strong drama film, a little more is needed.
It's the first time I've seen Arnie in such a role in a drama film. Usually it's okay if he doesn't have to say too much, but I didn't think it worked out here either. Rather a miscast. Unfortunately I couldn't identify with the character. Breslin did quite well.
Technically ok, although the many silences were sometimes too much. A drama is certainly more than just that. A little too little depth, at times stereotypical with the silences. Slowness ok, but it has to lead to something, and that didn't come out enough. Too bad, because the idea was there, now the execution.
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