R.I.P.D. (2013)
Average Rating: 3.6/10
Reviews Counted: 88
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 76
It has its moments -- most of them courtesy of Jeff Bridges' rootin' tootin' performance as an undead Wild West sheriff -- but R.I.P.D. is ultimately too dim-witted and formulaic to satisfy.
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 16
It has its moments -- most of them courtesy of Jeff Bridges' rootin' tootin' performance as an undead Wild West sheriff -- but R.I.P.D. is ultimately too dim-witted and formulaic to satisfy.
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Movie Info
Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds headline the 3D supernatural action-adventure R.I.P.D. as two cops dispatched by the otherworldly Rest In Peace Department to protect and serve the living from an increasingly destructive array of souls who refuse to move peacefully to the other side. Veteran sheriff Roy Pulsifer (Bridges) has spent his career with the legendary police force known as R.I.P.D. tracking monstrous spirits who are cleverly disguised as ordinary people. His mission? To arrest and bring
Cast
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Jeff Bridges
Roy -
Ryan Reynolds
Nick -
Kevin Bacon
Hayes -
Mary-Louise Parker
proctor -
Stephanie Szostak
Julia -
James Hong
Nick's Avatar -
Marisa Miller
Roy's Avatar -
Robert Knepper
Stanley Nawicki -
Mike O'Malley
Elliot -
Devin Ratray
Pulaski -
Larry Joe Campbell
Officer Murphy -
MIchael Coons
Detective in Locker ... -
Christina Everett
R.I.P.D. Evidence Cl... -
Michael Tow
R.I.P.D. Evidence Cl... -
Lonnie Farmer
Proctor's Avatar -
Piper Mackenzie Harr...
Nick's New Avatar -
Ben Sloane
Clerk in VCR Repair ... -
Duncan Putney
Executive -
Bill Mootos
Executive -
Kortney Adams
Office Girl -
Michael Yebba
Jersey Deado -
David Hillman Curtis
Multiarmed Deado -
Kachina Dechert
Goth Chick Deado -
Cheryl McMahon
Driving Deado -
Georgia Lyman
Female Cop -
Matt McColm
Male Cop -
John Burke
Newscaster in Helico... -
Joe Stapleton
R.I.P.D. '70s Cop -
Michael Steven Coste...
R.I.P.D. Cop -
Naheem Garcia
R.I.P.D. Cop -
Lance Greene
R.I.P.D. Cop -
Tobias Segal
Clement Smokewagon P... -
Toby Huss
Various Deado Voices -
Mike Judge
Various Deado Voices -
Josh Olson
Various Deado Voices
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All Critics (88) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (76)
This spends little time on exposition and doesn't go in for any false pathos; compared with most recent comic-book movies, this is lean, unpretentious filmmaking--and to my taste, a lot more fun for it.
Top CriticToo bad director Robert Schwentke ("RED") and the writing team handling the 3-D screen adaptation don't hold up their end, failing to do much with a premise that felt like it could rate with, say, "Men in Black."
Mr. Bridges is almost always fun to watch, but even his squinting and Slim Pickens-style whooping can't make the time pass faster.
A half-hour into the film, and it feels like the eighth day of jury duty.
With its low-stakes chase scenes, obvious-from-the-get-go villains and nonsensical plotting, this feels more like a 96-minute-long episode of Scooby-Doo that's been laboriously translated into another language and then back into English.
It's an unpleasant way to pass a couple summer hours.
R.I.P.D may look like something that you've seen before (and you kind of have) but with deft direction, the primal allure of redemption and lightning pace; prepare for a surprisingly entertaining ride.
Bridges may be doing this for the pay cheque but at least he seems determined to give value for money.
It's MIB meets Ghost via Ghostbusters in this flat, FX-driven drivel...Apparently, they're not just scratching the bottom of the Hollywood ideas barrell, they've worn all the way through and are now hitting the floor.
The script is never actually funny, and the filmmakers' desperate attempt to crank up the mayhem with digital trickery is merely exhausting.
Overall, it's a directionless mess: too expensive for a B-movie, too grown-up for a kids' movie (funerals, bereavement and jokes about Steely Dan) and too infantile for everyone else.
The Oscar-winning Bridges sounds like he's chewing marbles and suddenly looks 10 years older than 63.
Who thought this was a good idea and why are they still allowed out alone at night?
A patchy attempt to wrangle quirky, other-worldly comic-book mythology into a mainstream 3D blockbuster format, but one which lacks the oddball imagination to pull it off.
Bridges (gorgeous and effortlessly leftfield) has saved many a dire film. He tries to hold the fort but it just can't be done.
What pours from the screen while you watch this comic book adaptation is seething, unadulterated cynicism.
Bridges has fun slumming here, but even he can't save it from kicking the bucket about halfway through.
It was nice to watch a movie that had no delusions of grandeur, a simple flick that both plays to its strengths and makes light of its own weaknesses.
R.I.P.D. is so wrong-headed that the people who made it couldn't even manage a decent rip-off of Men In Black; they decided to copy the abominable Men In Black 2 instead.
Sluggish and boring, it doesn't have an original bone in its dead body.
[A] goofy and derivative supernatural action-adventure, based on a comic-book series by Peter Lenkov.
So generic a cut-and-paste job is the film's every aesthetic cue, it's surprising to even find a director's name surface in the closing credits.
It's billed as a supernatural action-adventure comedy, but its laughs are almost non-existent, its action depends on seen-it-all-before CGI trickery and much of its plot defies comprehension.
Every bit the lifeless blockbuster that its name suggests.
The ingredients are all here, but this mash-up of Ghost with Men in Black is a painful misfire, neither funny nor engaging on any level.
A decent amount of fun, thanks to some amusing gags, a handful of nice ideas and a pair of enjoyable comic performances from Reynolds and Bridges.
Audience Reviews for R.I.P.D.
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- Nick's Avatar: Nothing to see here. Gotta go.
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- Roy: You don't look like you anymore.
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- Roy: I don't know which two eyes to shoot you between.
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Good movie! There is plenty action and a fair amount of comedy. there were some plot holes and the ending left a few unanswered questions. This is not a blockbuster or a classic movie, I would classify it as a good popcorn flick. Contrary to many other opinions here we both recommend this as a watchable movie, as long as your expectations are reasonable.
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.