If you think of the movie's concept, you can't help but being positive about Maggie. Although this movie belongs to the zombie category, Maggie is an amazingly different film than those shoot-and-run zombie flicks we all know. Maggie follows the tragic transformation of a teenage girl in a by a sickness terrorised North-American countryside. I liked how the tragic and relatively slow scenery really made you feel a part of the grieving family, which is trying to make the best of the last time with the sick Maggie. It's a very tragic story, and seeing Maggie get more and more afraid when she's slowly transforming into a flesh-eating cannibal was in my opinion a job done well by the producers. However, the acting isn't good at all. Choosing Arnold Schwarzenegger for the role of a loving, caring and grieving father was a very bad decision. Schwarzenegger's acting skills are not made for a slow, low action movie, let alone for a character who's tender, afraid and protective. His heavy German accent was a total put off, since it just didn't fit in with the rest of the film. The acting of the other actors isn't to be cheered for either. I also missed a lot of dialogue. The characters are quite flat, and the conversations don't go that deep. Especially Schwarzenegger seems to be excellent in keeping his mouth shut. His sentences often don't go any further than 4 words. To be fair, he did say "Maggie, get in da car!", which may or may not have been a reference to his all famous line.
Overall, the movie wasn't too great. It wasn't bad either, but it did get pretty close. Too bad that this movie had a great amount of potential. It just needed different actors and better script writers.
Overall, the movie wasn't too great. It wasn't bad either, but it did get pretty close. Too bad that this movie had a great amount of potential. It just needed different actors and better script writers.