Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘The Rezort’

Written by Scott Edwards

Looking to get away? Looking to find a way to get your mind off of things? Looking to feel like you are alive? Well, most of us are looking for these things when we take a vacation and most of the time, it does help. When a resort offers such things for a reasonable price, I am sometimes skeptical, but most of the time they are able to wow me. Being in the business to make you forget all of your worries for a few days, it is nice to have someone else deal with all the problems you usually run into while being on vacation, so you can sit back, relax and have a drink on the beach without a worry in the world.
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Seven years after the outbreak that killed over two billion people and changed the world as we know it, things are still far from being back to normal. With refugee camps still being used for so many people, the zombies may be gone, but no one’s lives will ever be the same again. With support groups still in use, people have no way of really getting over what happened to them in the war, but there has been a nice little island resort that has been set up to help some of the survivors find closure. The Rezort is an island paradise where if you have enough money to book a trip, you get put up with state of the art accommodations and most of all, you get to kill the remaining zombies on the island.

Leaving her support group meeting, Melanie is far from feeling better about the outbreak and she still misses the people that she lost and thinks that The Rezort could help her out immensely. With her boyfriend Lewis going along with the idea that killing the undead might get her mind right once again, he is in for the trip as well. Arriving at the airport and seeing up close and personal the refugee situation that is still a problem in the area, Melanie tries to put all of her loss behind her to have a good time, but she has no idea what she is up against.

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Arriving on the island and going through orientation, and learning how to shoot a gun, Melanie thinks that this trip is just what she needed, and they should have done it sooner. Seeing the excitement by the other guests on the island, she is ready to pull out her gun and go hunting for those that killed her father. Getting to a perch with her group, Melanie watches as sharpshooter Archer kills the undead without any hesitation. Seeing how Lewis is able to do this as well, since he was in the war, it is time for her to put her sights on one and pull the trigger, however when the zombie looks up at her with its lifeless eyes, she is taken aback and not able to pull the trigger. Mad at herself for not being able to accomplish what she wanted to on the trip, she is starting to have second thoughts about what she is doing there and finds out that the other woman in her group Sadie feels the same way.
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Back in island operations, a bug has been found in the system and while it does not seem to be a big thing at the time, it starts to eat away at the mainframe. When trying to kill it, a virus is activated causing all kinds of chaos around the control room and while the programmers think that they have the situation under control, everything is quickly falling apart around them. All of the electronic locks start to fail around the park allowing the undead to move around as freely as they did in the war and with no warning, all hell breaks loose. With no way to contact anyone in operations and a truck that will not stop, Melanie and her group have to find a way to survive a new outbreak that has taken over the island, and get off of the island before it is incinerated by the 'no nonsense' protocol. But as if that is not enough for her to deal with, she and the group also have the cause of this new threat within their own ranks and they also discover how the island has been thriving with the undead for so long after the war...

You know, as far as zombie movies go, this one is not half bad. You get all off the headshots on the zombies that your heart desires, but you also get some great discussions about where and when the killing will actually stop. Seeing the journey that Melanie has to take to survive is great and while she thinks that killing the undead would be good for her, she comes to the realization that they are just people, maybe not like her, but people none the less. Sadie has the same idea about killing the zombies, yet she has taken it a step further by trying to sabotage the park for the unwarranted killing of the undead. I liked how the group tried to pull together for survival and like any good horror movie, not all of them survive. If the park failing sounds somewhat familiar, yes, the movie feels a little bit like Jurassic Park, but instead it's filled with zombies that run the park and they seem to be smarter than your average dinosaur. Blood, check. Headshots, check. Blood Splatter, check. A Great Ending, CHECK! Stay Scared.

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