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Fantasy

Action

Comedy

R.I.P.D.

Universal Pictures

Dark Horse Entertainment

Original Film

United States of America

English

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

Robert Schwentke

Phil Hay

Matt Manfredi

David Dobkin

Christophe Beck

Mark Helfrich

Susan Lyall

Alwin H. Küchler

Michael Fottrell

Neal H. Moritz

Mike Richardson

Carolyn Pickman

Tricia Wood

Alec Hammond

David E. Scott

Keith Goldberg

Peter M. Lenkov

Ori Marmur

Jonathon Komack Martin

Robin Le Chanu

Geoffrey Hansen

Peter Thorell

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

Michael Papac

Marcella Brennan

Joseph Dizon

Kathryn Tedesco

Sara Ghaffar

E. David Cosier

Scott Dougan

Jeffrey D. McDonald

Noah Dubreuil

Peter N. Griffith

Simon Holt

Aaron A. Goffman

Aimee Butterfield

Christopher Analoro

Jill DiCicco

Brad Hanyok

Paul Jaasko

John Larson

Matt Meeds

Mark Menard

Mark Oliver

Oliver Peabody

Gil Plourde

Gordon Tanner

Michael Tavani

Wilfredo Usuga

Shann Whynot-Young

Christine Willard

Michael Dias

Anthony Francisco

Darek Gogol

Jerad Marantz

Steffen Reichstadt

Aaron Sims

Vladimir Todorov

Eddie Yang

Andy Chung

Jeff Julian

Igor Knežević

Craig Shoji

Annis Naeem

Josue Clotaire Fleurimond

Joseph Kearney

Mike Medina

Jason Bartolone

Brian Feola

Adam McClain

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.

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Robert Knepper

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