Almost....

I appreciate the good attempt at taking the zombie genre and doing things differently, a new perspective rather than gore fest.
Here we are treated to the idea of 'turning', and how family and loved ones would cope with essentially a dangerous and contagious terminally ill family member en route to zombieville.
It tried to work on a perspective of gritty realism, but in reality it failed on numerous accounts to actually BE realistic.

An epidemic of this nature (if real) would be treated so vastly different, that essentially the premise of this whole film could not take place.
If you go to the doctors (today) with your children who might have a suspicious cough (perhaps Whooping Cough), you don't even get to stay in the SAME regular waiting room as the rest of the ill patients, no... u get ushered to 'special' waiting room that is away from everyone else (and only shared with other patients presenting same symptoms).
It is preposterous that a 'zombie turning girl' could hang out in the waiting room with two non infected healthy children.
It is ridiculous that best friends would hug one another when the other is not infected (this is not an HIV positive pal, it's a potential Z O M B I E pal!).

So... I found that the film didn't basically work because its tone contradicted plot line on numerous occasions. Suspend belief over the zombie thing, yes. Suspend belief on how the world would pan out if such a thing was really occuring... um no.

However.... having said that I did enjoy aspects of this film, such as cinematography, filters and of course seeing arnie in a new role (to which he did ok, less is more in this case for arnie).

I was also upset over the ending. Again in reality plenty of parents would euthanize their sick tormented children way before they allow that child to experience too much pain or discomfort, and Arnie had plenty of opportunities to put a bullet in her head whilst she slept (or how about an earlier drug/painkiller overdose etc, surely there has to be more sensible options than blowing her head off!).

And her jumping off the roof... it didn't appear to exactly be 100% fool proof suicide method. I have visions of her landing in pain, kinda dead, kinda not, kinda crawling around half dead, half zombie, whilst Arnie is thinking "*beep*! *beep*!! I shoulda killed her before now... but i was too much a pussy!" etc. It left the film on a stupid note imo.
It would have been better executed if he actually did the manly fatherly thing and actually executed her (and showed footage of arnie breaking down in a *beep* manly fatherly mess), but as is it ended weak, like the whole premise.

Arnie 1 - Film 0

Oh well...