R.I.P.D. (2013)

Really enjoyed it, I had no idea what was gonna happen, as a film it works, 90 mins of fun, all the cast are great, fun, sharp, will watch again, just watch and see for yourself. Enjoy!

Fun and entertaining film similar to the Frighteners, it's definitely worth a watch.

Jack "The Film Lover" says... meh! I love the cast but meh, it was funny at some parts and some parts where amusing but overall, it didn't do it for me. I didn't really feel anything for the characters they were all kind of rushing to get to the special effects and big ending just so they can all wrap it up and go home.I love watching movies so it's no problem for me but damnit this was tough, after seeing it I felt robbed like there could have been other better things to see! Jack "The Filmmaker" says… oh CGI how I wished you could die down a bit, I miss real effects, I mean Special Effects, actual live on stage gags! Everything and everyone is so animated now a days! They just don't make them like they use to… well that's good and bad.Ryan Reynolds was great as always, but I would have liked someone more flexible in that role, someone who can morph into the victim and into the hero, someone like say Will Smith! Imagine Will Smith in a role where he doesn't know what is going on and he gets thrown into a world that turns his perception of reality upside down and then he must become the hero to save the planet! Oh wait that was called "Men in Black"!A lot of people are comparing the two movies "Men in Black" and "R.I.P.D" because they have a lot of similarities. It is your first reaction to a movie you don't like. You start comparing it and adding it up to something else. It's the same thing you do when you get into a new relationship with someone, do they live up to the expectations the last person left behind? In this case? NO! this was no "Men in Black", this was no "Ghostbusters" hell it wasn't even a "Weekend at Bernie's" this was just all over the place, it was a weird roller coaster on a rainy day, on a broken track run by a carny with really small hands. It seemed like it was trying too hard to fit in and sit with us at the cool movies table so we just made fun of it and made it go away.It did have some funny lines and silly new ideas and rules throughout the plot of the movie that was well thought out but in the end too much build up for a sight gag. Jack "The Parent" says… We saw this movie mainly because our 5 year old wanted to see it, she loved it, she didn't quite understand a lot of the elements in it (after life, deados) but she had a blast, this is not recommended for all 5 year olds, they can skip it, well you can skip it too!

I wanted to give RIPD chance, I really did. But it's such a shameless ripoff of Men In Black that most of it just constituted one big eye roll from me. It's not an outright knockoff, but it just uses the unmistakable blueprint of MIB and runs with it as if it were it's own organic idea. The veteran wiseass, the young hotshot, the clandestine otherworldly law enforcement syndicate, googly, goopy special effects, it's all there and just feels stale these days, but for a few saving graces. Jeff Bridges is an undeniable charmer as Roy, an undead wild west super cop who is tasked with retrieving runaway souls hiding out down on earth, and capturing them for return to the great beyond, here pictured as the penultimate vision of nightmarish beaurocracy that seems oddly derived from Beetlejuice (huh). When Boston cop Ryan Reynolds is betrayed and murdered by his corrupt scumbag of a partner (a skeezy Kevin Bacon) he's recruited by Proctor (Mary Louise Parker, all business and loving it) to join Roy in bringing "deados" back upstairs. The two don't get along, as newly paired cops in movies always behave, and the banter only really works from Bridges's side. He's a hoot as crotchety old Roy, while Reynolds plays it a bit too serious, especially in scenes with the wife he left behind (Stephanie Szostak). The film earns it's one inspired subplot when we see the human avatars the pair use to move about the earthly plane: Bridges is a knockout blonde chick (Marissa Miller), and Reynolds an elderly Chinese man played by the seemingly immortal James Hong. If they spent more time on terrifically funny ideas with potential like that and less on special effects that look like something out of the Garbage Pail Kids, they might have been on to something worthwhile. But alas, most of the film is spent on a whirlwind of silly slapstick and big gross weird things that are in no way engaging. There's a few slap dash deado hunts, including a brief turn from Robert Knepper as one that is lured out of hiding with Chinese food (what in the..), and a big sky vortex yawner of a finale where evil Bacon tries to wreak havoc on earth. Most of the time it's just a snooze though, save for the few times the clouds part and we get something fresh, usually from either Bridges or those to damned hilarious avatars. Shame.