A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him.
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!
Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
RIPD has got to be the dumbest, stupidest, irreverent...did I say dumbest...and funny comedy I've seen in ages...It was never supposed to be a blockbuster, I don't think, but it is a respectable jaunt into the ridiculous fantasy world of life after death...with some weird zombie type monsters thrown in for flavor...some of the prat falls are truly bizarre, but they just add to the humorous nature of the "out there" story. Reynolds and Bridges are death cops of sorts, with the responsibility to keep the evil zombies from taking over the world...etcetera etcetera...Awww heck, take a chance and see this one...it really is a fun two hours...
It's easy to see what they're aiming for with R.I.P.D.: it's Men in Black with a supernatural twist. The plot sees a young deceased cop, Nick (Ryan Reynolds taking on the Will Smith role), being recruited by a special organisation (R.I.P.D. as opposed to M.I.B) dedicated to capturing dead people who are roaming the Earth illegally, having escaped judgement. Together with older, experienced mentor Roy (Jeff Bridges in the Tommy Lee Jones role), Nick investigates a case involving fragments of a gold artefact sought by his his ex-partner Hayes (Kevin Bacon), the man who killed him.Other parallels that can be drawn with Men In Black include the titular organisation's headquarters, which are extremely reminiscent of the bustling M.I.B. HQ, the use of inventive specialised weapons (although there's nothing as fun as the 'noisy cricket'), and the untrustworthy informer (again, nowhere near as good as Tony Shalhoub's Jeebs). Even the film's tag-line 'Defending our world one soul at a time' is close to M.I.B.'s 'your first, last and only line of defense'.All of these similarities result in a distinct lack of freshness, but the problems don't end there: lousy CGI effects, a complete absence of genuine laughs, and Bridges insufferable performance all go to ensure that a good time is not had by all. In short, R.I.P.D. is C.R.A.P.
If you've seen Men In Black, Ghost, and Ghostbusters, then you can pretty much skip this one. Throw in a bit of Evil Dead (Deados aka Deadites), and you have one of the most derivative movies I can think of. Still, due to the great cast and fun effects, it's not entirely bad. Just don't expect anything new.
Back when I first saw "Men in Black," I wondered what it would be like if Jay and Kay had to go up against ghosts, zombies, vampires and other paranormal entities. This is not that movie except superficially. Ryan Reynolds plays a police officer who is struck down in the line of combat, but in some sort of almost "Beetlejuice" arrangement, he has to police the world's ghosts before he can cross over. Jeff Bridges is his partner, a former Wild West sheriff, and they can only appear on Earth "Quantum Leap" style as their human hosts, an elderly Chinese man and a stunningly attractive statuesque blonde. If you've watched this far, you've realized it's already more convoluted than "Quantum Leap" and less entertaining or creative than "Beetlejuice." Now, I know "R.I.P.D." is based on a more successful comic book, but maybe more effort should have been put on the script than the special effects. It has a few funny moments, several gross scenes and tries to be exciting, but the only good part is the repartee between Bridges and Reynolds. Kevin Bacon is annoyingly tedious, there are numerous moments that just don't make sense much less feel as if they belong in the movie and some moments seem almost incoherently tagged on (a house that looks normal but is actually condemned??) Even Reynolds own pining for his wife feels stolen from "Spawn." Bottom line, this movie could have been streamlined to a much more tightly and coherent flick. "MIB" had much better acting, writing, visual gags and a stronger concept based on the extraterrestrial phenomenon. For "R.I.P.D." to have worked on a "Beetlejuice" level, it would have been better to have some concepts viewers would have recognized without knowing the comic books.