A grim zombie outing starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Abigail Breslin that drowns in body fluids and emo slush It’s a zombie film staple: that bad moment when a loved one has been infected by the virus and now you’ve got some hard choices. Maggie stretches this idea out to one interminably boring and mawkish film,overlaid with YA-dystopian self-pity. In a standard-issue post-apocalyptic world of car-wreck-strewn highways and creepy abandoned convenience stores, Maggie (Abigail Breslin) has been infected by the zombie bug; she’s in the initial stages of skin discolouration on her hands, and being cared for by her grizzled old uninfected dad,played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. He has already had the task of taking his axe to his erstwhile lovely neighbours, who came shambling on to his property. Now he has to decide if and when to flick the safety off his shotgun and lead destitute, or confused Maggie out into the back yard. But first they’ve got a bit more bonding and indie acting to finish,and Maggie must tender farewell to some equally stricken boy admirer, who’s got those same icky black veins starting to creep up his cute face. The whole thing is drowning in body fluids and emo slush. As for producer-star Arnie, and trudging grimly through this nonsense,there’s no sign of the former Governator and Terminator turning into the Seriousactingator.
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Source: theguardian.com