Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new film to promote, called Maggie, and it is a movie about dying. Maggie is a genre film — apocalyptic food shortage, attacking zombie hordes — but unrelentingly gloomy. Schwarzenegger plays a stoic farmer named Wade, and we learn right away that his daughter, played by Abigail Breslin, has been bitten by a zombie and is going to die. For 90 minutes, we watch Wade watch her die. Wade offs some zombies along the way and roughs up an insensitive local cop, but this violence amounts, in the end, to pointless flailing. Schwarzenegger tells Rolling Stone, “The script really had an effect on me. It’s a parent’s worst nightmare to see one of your kids die.”
