R.I.P.D. Collection

Jeff Bridges

Ryan Reynolds

Kevin Bacon

Mary-Louise Parker

Stephanie Szostak

Robert Knepper

James Hong

Marisa Miller

Mike O'Malley

Devin Ratray

Larry Joe Campbell

Michael Coons

Chris Everett

Michael Tow

Lonnie Farmer

Piper Mackenzie Harris

Ben Sloane

Duncan B. Putney

Bill Mootos

Kortney Adams

Michael Yebba

David J. Curtis

Kachina Dechert

Cheryl McMahon

Georgia Lyman

Matt McColm

Catherine Kresge

John Burke

Joe Stapleton

Michael Steven Costello

Naheem Garcia

Lance Greene

Tobias Segal

Mike Judge

Toby Huss

Jon Olson

Emmalyn Anderson

Alexandra Creteau

Jim Ford

John Franchi

J. Jewels

Chris Whitney

D.J. 'Shangela' Pierce

Anup Kulkarni

Alwin H. Küchler

Ori Marmur

Matt Manfredi

Susan Lyall

Mark Helfrich

Mike Richardson

Jonathon Komack Martin

Robert Schwentke

David Dobkin

Michael Fottrell

Carolyn Pickman

Peter M. Lenkov

Phil Hay

Neal H. Moritz

David E. Scott

Alec Hammond

Christophe Beck

Tricia Wood

Keith Goldberg

Peter Thorell

Robin Le Chanu

Geoffrey Hansen

Cheyenne Ellis

Billy D. Lucas

Shauna Galligan

Eddie Braun

Gary Archer

Erik Rondell

Aaron Vexler

Priscilla Elliott

Justin Hammond

Brian N. Bentley

Aravind Jayaraman

Erik Classen

Tim Trella

Corey Michael Eubanks

Chris Carnes

Kathy Lucas

Clay Cullen

Bruton Jones

Britney Young

Chad Randall

Annie Ellis

David R. Ellis

Rick Avery

Jessica Harbeck

John C. Meier

Jeff 'JJ' Dashnaw

E. David Cosier

Simon Holt

Brad Hanyok

Michael Papac

Kathryn Tedesco

Noah Dubreuil

Gordon Tanner

Craig Shoji

Jill DiCicco

Sara Ghaffar

Aimee Butterfield

Aaron Sims

Kim Codner

David Gulick

Zachary Sears

Aaron A. Goffman

Andy Chung

Shann Whynot-Young

Jason Bartolone

Julia Garrison

Marcella Brennan

Jeffrey D. McDonald

Paul Jaasko

Jerad Marantz

Wilson Gallego

Raymond Petrello

Scott Dougan

Mark Menard

Joseph Dizon

Christopher Analoro

Christine Willard

Michael Broom

Zachary Fannin

Peter N. Griffith

Michael Tavani

Matt Meeds

Mike Medina

Jennifer Gerbino

Wilfredo Usuga

Igor Knežević

Jorge Luis Gonzalez

Steffen Reichstadt

Jeff Julian

Annis Naeem

Cameron Matheson

John Larson

Oliver Peabody

Fantasy

Action

Comedy

R.I.P.D.

Universal Pictures

Dark Horse Entertainment

Original Film

United States of America

Per Gunnar Jonsson

As far as I am concerned this is another movie that demonstrates that the rating  of the so-called “professional” critics used by Rotten Tomatoes are next to useless, at least as far as I am concerned and the official rating system at RT in general is deeply flawed. Yes I know that I have been harping about this before but I think it deserves to be repeated. Sure, this movie is not the greatest I have ever seen but come on! If you go to the movie’s page at RT you see a big rotten 13% flashing at you. That makes the unaware reader think the movie is a real turkey and that to me is just recycled bull food.

At sites like IMDb and TMDb the movies gets around 5.5 out of 10 which, although not great, is much more reasonable. Also the viewer rating says 42% which looks bad but if you look at the details you see that the average rating is 3 out of 5 stars which to me is more an “okay” rating. The RT ratings is seems to be made to make all movies except the blockbusters look bad.

Anyway, with that little rant over with, let us get to the movie itself. Personally I found it a quite entertaining movie that could have been better. There are quite a few funny scenes and the special effects are not bad.

Jeff Bridges is quite funny as the veteran sheriff although his character is still one of the things that could have been done better. He is supposed to be the knowledgeable veteran but in many scenes it seems like the other way around. His stubborn stupidity is sometimes rather annoying.

The plot is fairly simple and straightforward. Nothing fantastic and a bit contrived perhaps but good enough to string the special effects scenes together leading up to the grand finale. The cumin nonsense and the scene where Roy is stuffing his head with spicy food to get a dead to reveal himself is a bit of a downer though.

A lot of people have been claiming that it is a M.I.B. rip-off. I think that is rubbish. Yes, there are similarities but then every movie with a veteran, a rookie and a sci-fi or a fantasy theme could be said to be a rip-off in that case. There are so many movies made that one will always find similarities. Just live with it.

As I write before, on the whole I found the movie rather entertaining and me and the kids sure enjoyed our movie evening.

Yes, ok, it's a terrible film, but in the best way. It's worth watching just to see Jeff Bridges having so much fun sending up his character and himself.