Their sentence on Earth is in a different body than their own, thus disguising them, as they investigate deado crime and capture or shoot them-contending with deado superpowers while wielding some superpowers of their own.Ĭritics have their gripes about this movie right out of the gate. This allows them at least a better chance at entering the pearly gates. Their punishment is to serve in the R.I.P.D., capturing deados (dead people haunting Earth?) for 100 years. Roy ( Jeff Bridges) is a seasoned officer among those sent to what is, at the very least, a strong parallel of Catholic purgatory for imperfect lives. Robert Schwentke-“RED,” “Flightplan,” “The Time Traveler’s Wife” Tobias Segal … Clement Smokewagon Perkins Piper Mackenzie Harris … Nick’s New Avatar (At least he gets a few laughs.)ĭirector Robert Schwentke settles for sub-par special effects - the monsters look rubbery and fake - and haphazard plotting: Knowing what he knows, why would Hayes shoot and kill Nick? The comedy falls flat, the action is unexciting, and, even worse, the romantic angle is hopeless given that the hero is dead and his wife is still alive it's too heavy an idea for such a 'light' movie.Christina Everett … R.I.P.D. without all the clever dialogue or character depth. Even a great actor like Bridges merely reprises his Oscar-nominated cowboy performance from True Grit.

comes across as almost totally lifeless, as if it were on autopilot or generated by a computer that had been fed certain data and asked to spit out a movie. With lots of similarities to the Men in Black movies, Ghost, Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, Heaven Can Wait (and its remake Down to Earth), as well as many other movies, R.I.P.D. This movie is a waste of time you've already seen it done before, and much better.

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