Thanks for the memories!

Don't Believe the Hype

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Not a bad entry into already popular and busy genre. The idea behind the movie is simple yet worked out quite well. Nice pace, good execution.

EDIT: Apparently the big huge question I had of how does the Rezort keep up its stock of zombies is answered later in the film, in that they apparently mass murder refugees and make them into zombies to restock their supplies. But the answer just raises further incredibly stupid questions, like how do they get away with it without there being any questions or controversy, or the question of where thousands, if not millions, of refugees are disappearing suspiciously close to the island resort specifically meant for you to kill undead people. ---I'm new to the idea of bad B zombie movies and such. This one had a semi-interesting concept which almost immediately began to come apart. This is supposedly happening after a big apocalyptic zombie war in which 2 billion people died and ultimately defeated the zombies. There's now only zombies on a tiny island, where the white owner of the island sets it up as a resort for people to kill zombies. Right away this just raises incredibly stupid questions that I can never get over because of how pressing they are1) How does this Rezort idea sustain itself if the Zombie threat is over? They should only have a limited amount of zombies left. How has it gone on for almost 10 years without them running out of zombies?2) How has this "Zombie Park" not had dozens of people end up killing each other already? There's next to 0 gun safety or gun discipline at all, people can run around with fully automatic assault rifles on their own or in small groups with no supervision, and wave their guns around at each other. There should have been at least dozens of people severely wounded or killed due simply from clumsy gun handling, not even going into stupid idiots (like the two Gamer Guys) getting into moronic fights, or some lone psychopath going on a killing spree killing the human tourists rather than the zombies.There's a lot more stupid, idiotic things wrong that you could ask questions of, but apparently for bad B movies you're supposed to allow some degree of stupidity go, such as the fact that the zombies are only held back by electrified fences, so when the power inevitably goes out, they're able to escape the fences. But the aforementioned two questions were just too incredibly stupid for me to ever let go. But where the movie REALLY lost me, completely and utterly, was a scene almost half way in between two of the female main characters. One of them was apparently set to go with their fiancé, who dumped her before the wedding, and so she went because the ticket was non-refundable, and the other woman was a survivor of the zombie war and still suffering trauma from being a survivor.They have a painfully stupid, insipid little morality discussion about comparing humans to zombies, "who's the real zombie here?" and wondering if maybe they were wrong to win the zombie war, and wondering why they should've won. Holy effing shit. Nothing else in this waste of a movie can overcome the life-ending stupidity of that scene and that discussion

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.

After the zombie apocalypse ('The War') killed billions, humanity resurfaced, with only a few remaining zombies left on an island that becomes a shoot-em up zombie theme park, 'The Rezort'.After having been horribly affected by 'The War', our female protagonist goes to the island, hoping to find some kind of catharsis. But of course, we wouldn't have a movie like this if things went all too smoothly. Predictably, there's another zombie outbreak, and our team of "Zafari" goers has to escape the island as soon as possible.THE REZORT is going more for fast-paced action and suspense than gore and horror. It tends to focus on moral issues and the various emotional subplots, but that is precisely where the movie most blatantly fails, mostly because the relatively uninteresting characters are mere caricatures of known stereotypes ("the nerd", "the lone ranger", "the greedy business woman" etc.). and because the acting is not always convincing. However, most disappointingly the action scenes are not shot with a sense of geography, and they are rather hastily edited. That combined with bad CGI makes for an all-in-all mediocre viewing experience.It's a 5 out of 10 for me because it does entertain in the end, but it's a long shot from being a great movie, riddled with flaws on both the story side and the action side.