Zombie films are pretty common place these days with the sub-genre being saturated with entries. So expectations are generally pretty low when a new one comes around the block. This rule of thumb applies to The Rezort. But I have to say that this one keeps things a little more interesting than usual. The set-up about a high-tech resort where adrenaline mad tourists can visit to shoot zombies is a pretty good new angle for the genre; even if it essentially borrows heavily from Michael Crichton penned sci-fi classics Westword (1973) and Jurassic Park (1993),especially when we have the zombies breaking free and causing all manner of horrors on the humans in a very similar way to what the androids and dinosaurs did in those two earlier films. Still, I didn't really mind this derivative aspect very much as at least it seemed – to me at least – to be a new angle for the zombie film.

For those who are interested in the distinction, this is one of the ones which has fast zombies. They bomb about in hot pursuit of the protagonists and you can probably imagine that it ends in tears for almost everyone. There is a little bit of political subtext added to the mix as well with a revelation later in the film involving refugees, which of course taps into a current issue in a zombie tradition that goes all the way back to George A. Romero. But mainly, this is a nicely distinctive new entry into an over-populated sub-genre. All things considered, I thought it was pretty good.

THE REZORT is a typical cheap and digital zombie movie, perhaps made with a bit more bloodshed than most in this genre. The plot is somewhat novel and involves a group of characters heading off to a remote island (it's one of the Canary Islands according to the on-screen map) where they're allowed to go around and kill zombies for fun. Inevitably the usual outbreak occurs, with the tables turned and our protagonists now themselves becoming hunted by the living dead. I'm a fan of Dougray Scott but he's on autopilot here, mainly struggling with his American accent, and the rest of the cast are worse. There's plenty of action, though, to take your mind off the familiarity of it all.

If you haven't figured it out "Z" is for zombie in all these misspelled titles. After the first viral zombie outbreak, "Brimstone Protocol" was issued, which were drone strikes...in Star Trek philosophy it is "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the zombie." Two billion people died, and Valerie Wilton (Claire Goose) is now making great profits by turning an island not cleared into a resort hunting ground. People pay outrageous sums to hunt and kill zombies. They have a careful Jurassic Park set-up. It is more like Deer Camp where "sportsmen" rest in a tree stand while shooting animals with high powered rifles in a baited field.

Melanie (Jessica De Gouw) has issues dealing with what happened. So in order to deal with killing 2 billion people (she also lost her father) it is recommended she go kill a few undead herself...like taking more poison to cure the effects of poisoning. We watch Sadie (Elen Rhys) download a virus into the Rezorts computer (My spell check is going crazy). We already know the outcome as the Brimstone Protocol was issued for the island. This whole story is a flashback. The only question is will our final girl escape, how, and will anyone else survive? There is also a slight twist.

I liked the film and the character Archer (Dougray Scott) which could have used a high dollar tough guy star. Melanie, our main character was by design to be slightly mousy. She projected a protagonist that was bland. I liked the original idea, decently executed. Valerie Wilton needed to be a more of a flamboyant showman. The island was supposed to located about where the Azores would be, but was filmed in the Philippines.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.