Thanks for the memories!

A lot of fun.

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Wade (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a farmer whose crops are dying because of the necroambulist virus (never called zombie virus) which has also infected his daughter Maggie (Abigail Breslin) who slowly gets progressively worse. There are quarantine centers for people who get to the final stages and Wade fights to keep his daughter from going there. I am sorry to say, but that is the whole story in a nutshell. Impossible to plot spoiler.The zombie effects are minimal. The film is more about living with someone with a contagious terminal disease, although I am not sure why they felt the need to fabricate one. The people don't know how to quarantine very well and the government is lackadaisical in enforcing protocol.Overall the film was boring. They tease us with walking dead, but don't deliver on the action.

I just re-watched it and it's still one of the best horror/drama films of the decade. This is about that Maggie (Abigail Breslin) was bitten by a zombie, she gradually becomes into a zombie, Arnold cares for her until she must eventually be quarantined. It didn't deserve all the hate while people were expecting an action flick with Arnold or a full gory zombie film like 'World War Z'. It's okay if a lot people found it boring because it is a slow-burn movie, but I enjoyed it the way it is. Arnold was terrific and he gave one of his finest performances ever. I love how he played a dramatic character. Abigail Breslin was also fantastic too. It's well acted, written, directed. The cinematography and color-grading were all that great. Maggie is beautifully shot, emotional, touching, sad movie about love and loss.9.5/10

During an outbreak of a disease in America's Midwest, a father Wade Vogel (Arnold Schwarzenegger)takes care of his daughter Maggie Vogel (Abigail Breslin) after she has been bitten by one of the infected. The disease slowly turns the infected into cannibalistic zombies and Wade stays by his daughter's side until the inevitable happens...As a rule of thumb, zombie films generally fall along the same sort of narrative lines; you will usually get the living trying to survive against the dead OR the living trying to find a cure for the outbreak (invariably both of these elements are sometimes melded together). However, Maggie is a different beast and is very much less clichéd in its narrative approach to a zombie apocalypse - it has more of a human drama feel to it rather than a race-against-time or a battle against zombies type feel to it. In some ways, this is good as the different angle to a familiar story does at least set it apart from the crowd, but that's really where the praise ends with this film...For a start, the whole story is quite far-fetched and rather hard to believe; we're expected to believe that the authorities would allow the infected to spend their final days with their families putting other non-infected neighbours or families at risk?? Why would this be allowed? Although the infected are effectively supposed to be under house arrest and heavy restrictions are supposedly put on where they can go and what they can do there is never any evidence that this is actually being policed properly?? It's a touching way to set the story up, but it's rather ludicrous and is something that I couldn't buy for one second...Even if you can suspend disbelief for the story then I'll think you'll have a much harder time forgiving the unbelievable tedium that is served up in this film. When I say that nothing happens throughout its 90 odd minute running time I'm not exaggerating - the film slowly shows Maggie getting more and more ill and there is one incident where she nearly gets attacked by the infected and one other occasion when she hangs out with other infected people, but other than these moments there's nothing memorable about this film. Some of the problems lie with the far-fetched script, but director Henry Hobson is also partly to blame for his rather lacklustre and lethargic direction (he seems to use mood music to manipulate the audience into feeling sad rather than achieving this by developing the characters and the story enough to make us give a damn). The only real hook with this film is waiting around to see if Maggie turns, but the film doesn't deliver in this respect either; given the way the story has been set up I didn't expect Maggie to turn on her family (and nor would I have wanted her to as it would have certainly cheapened the film), but still I wish that the film would have had more depth and perhaps explored Maggie's own struggles and her family's struggles trying to deal with her life-changing transformation.Despite the narrative offering a different outlook on coping with a zombie apocalypse, the filmmakers constantly shoot themselves in the foot by giving me a dull story with dull characters where virtually nothing happens and the cherry on the cake here is that there is no dramatic pay-off meaning that the film really is a waste of 90 minutes. It's only a relatively good performance from Abigail Breslin which is preventing the film from getting the minimum score.

You see, the thing about zombies is, they're incredible boring. I'm pretty sure that's why George Romero always chose to marry the "ghouls" in his stories with political commentary. I had to learn this lesson myself with my own horror-thriller trilogy. You cannot expect readers to embrace three novels—nearly three hundred thousand words—if all they have to look forward to is a bunch of drooling braineaters on the loose.'Maggie' is not a zombie movie—not in the normal sense. Yes, there are zombies in it —in particular, the title character, played by Abigail Breslin. But these are not the undead we are used to. They are victims of a plague that has swept the planet and has made ordinary people sick—SLOWLY. They may no longer eat, but they can still talk and think and love. They don't shuffle, and neither do they move ultra-fast as in World War Z.' They are simply people who are dying.Against this backdrop you have a father, played beautifully and with quiet strength by Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is determined to keep his daughter not only alive, but SAFE for as long as possible. In doing so, he drives away his wife and their two small children, manages to earn the scorn of the police and quite possibly risks his own life. Because when the day comes that Maggie "turns"—and that day will come—he will be forced to either take her to a quarantine facility, where they will end her life with a death cocktail, or deal with her in his own way at home.If there's one lesson that 'Maggie' teaches us, it's that family and friends matter— especially in times of crisis. This movie didn't have to be about zombies. Wade and his daughter could have ended up exactly in the same situation as a result of worldwide famine, cataclysmic climate change or End Times. It doesn't matter. For me, the poignancy is most present in those quiet moments when Wade and his daughter are sharing a memory or a laugh. It's when he desperately tries to get her to eat something to keep up her strength. And it's when she's starting to turn and he exhorts her to fight and stay human.'Maggie' bombed at the box office. As of this writing (July 2015), it has earned only $187,112 domestic, according to BoxOfficeMojo. And that's a shame. I think perhaps LionsGate may not have known how best to market this film. I sympathize, though. As soon as you say "zombie" and Arnold Schwarzenegger, audiences are going to have certain expectations. I wouldn't be surprised if they were thinking guns, brains, and lots and lots of blood. Too bad. This movie is not that.I'm really hoping 'Maggie' does well on video. It deserves an audience—the RIGHT audience.