Quick Review:Maggie: Directed by Henry Hobson, Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Abigail Breslin5/9/2015 Maggie has a pace that is dead crawling. This is a slow movie. Thank god. I was able to savor every moment of this lovingly made, and impeccably acted addition to the zombie genre. I really don't have a lot to say for it because the film is exactly what I expected, but my god it's good. Of course it's dour. That can be expected from a movie about a father who has to slowly watch his daughter become a zombie, but that dourness only suffocates a little bit of the movie. The rest of it comes at you in it's full emotional force; thanks in turn to some great acting, and writing. Before I say anything else I will say that Schwarzenegger is just as good as everybody is saying. It's not a revolutionary performance, but I have to give credit to where it's due. It's a deep, and quiet performance that combined with some surprisingly effective method acting creates a pretty great character. Abigail Bresin is the same. It's also very much a quiet performance which I haven't seen before from her, and it's nice to see both of these great actors play off of each other. Also impressive is the down to earth writing. It's simple, but it works with Breslin getting sometime to be built up, and that's really cool actually. The cinematography is also on par here with it building on the mood already established. It's really beautiful. So overall this is a great film. It definitely takes it's time, and is a little bit dour. But yeah it's awesome. The actors are very impressive, and if you have any interest see it. I really think you should. I give Maggie a 9 out of 10.
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