Maggie (2014)

The story in Maggie has the potential makings of an interesting short novel. It's a zombie apocalypse tale only the zombie plague works slower then it does in most renderings, so government efforts to keep the crises at bay work better then they usually do, so society doesn't collapse, there are still police  and radio broadcasts ect, though it does take a big body blow. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a farmer somewhere in the American heartland (less believable then zombie apocalypse?) who takes his infected 18ish daughter Maggie (Abigial Breslin) back to the farm to say their farewells before she goes full flesh eater. Maggie is Arnold's daughter from his first marriage, that wife having passed from cancer or something when Maggie was still a child, Schwarzenegger later remarried (Joely Richardson) and had two more kids, so Maggies impending death opens more old wounds, which juxtapose interestingly with the existential crises of the current global catastrophe. Again all of this could be interesting to explore in a book, which can usually focus on internal narratives better then film, because as a movie this is pretty dual and not all that much happens. I applauded the effort, but **.