![]() ![]() I do have to say though that without Reynolds and Bridges this may have been unwatchable. This is very much geared toward a young teen crowd but I still found it funny. While I won't say this wasn't Men In Black like, it was much better then I expected and did laugh and was entertained most of the way through. I'm not sure why but when I say the preview I immediately expected another Men In Black and didn't think it was needed. I have to start off by saying that I wasn't really expecting this to be good at all. When Nick finds a connection between the Dead-O's and his death things turn personal. and along with his new partner Roy (Bridges) they set out to capture the Dead-O's that roam free. ![]() ![]() "You gonna sit there and mope or do you want to help me stop the, you know, an apocalypse?" After things go very very wrong while out on a bust Boston PD officer Nick (Reynolds) is killed but before he heads to his judgement he is swept into an office and offered a new job. Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: Not a great film by any means but not a bad one either. Watching Reynolds and Bridges together (as an odd couple duo) is a treat as well and it's funny to see Reynolds being mostly the straight man while Bridges mostly hams it up (Bacon is also once again a great despicable villain). It had a budget of approximately $130 million and as a purely visual treat it paid off as far as the special effects go, plus the women are all super hot (Szostak and Miller are breathtaking in the flick). It's a lot of fun, funny at times and the visuals are spectacular. The fact is the movie is not nearly as bad as a lot of people like to say it is. It's of course not nearly as good as that campy sci-fi classic but it is better than it's first sequel (arguably 'MEN IN BLACK 3' as well). The biggest complaint I've heard about the trailer for the film is how much it resembles the film 'MEN IN BLACK' and I have to say, after seeing the film as well, that it very much resembles a 'MEN IN BLACK' movie. Marshal from the Old West, named Roy Pulsipher (Bridges), while he attempts to track down his old partner and clear his reputation with the love of his life, Julia Walker (Szostak). specializes in catching 'deados', which are souls who have refused to leave the land of the living. (Rest In Peace Department) in the afterlife. Walker is shot and killed by Hayes during a shootout and is recruited by the R.I.P.D. The film opens with a Boston cop named Nick Walker (Reynolds), having a dispute with his partner, Bobby Hayes (Bacon), over whether or not to turn in gold they found at a recent drug bust. That doesn't mean they're bad films though and I actually enjoyed 'R.I.P.D.' to a certain degree (definitely not an especially good movie though). All three films bombed and Reynolds now has a pretty big reputation for constantly delivering box office misfires. Oddly both Reynolds and Parker had two big films opening the same weekend (Reynolds also can be heard in the animated family film 'TURBO' and Parker reprised her role in the sequel to Schwentke's 'RED'). The film also co-stars Kevin Bacon, Mary-Louise Parker, Stephanie Szostak, Marisa Miller and James Hong. Lenkov created the comic book it's based on and also executive produced the film. It was directed by Robert Schwentke (who also directed the action films 'RED' and 'FLIGHPLAN') and written by Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi and David Dobkin. 'R.I.P.D.': Three and a Half Stars (Out of Five) One of the summer's biggest expensive casualties is this Dark Horse comic adaptation starring Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges as two police officers in the after life fighting undead ghouls. ![]()
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