R.I.P.D. [Blu-ray]

Loved this movie. Will watch again. Super funny

RIPD is a very entertaining movie. The plot is fresh and new. Ryan Reynolds is a police officer who is shot by his partner, Kevin Bacon over some gold. Next, we see Ryan being pulled upwards into the sky and continuing on through a tunnel that opens within the clouds. As he's spinning around in this tunnel within the clouds, he sees other dead people all around him also being pulled upwards through this tunnel. The tunnel pops him out and into the office of Mary Louise Parker. She gives Ryan a choice of either going to face judgment or joining RIPD Boston. She says the tour is 100 years, after which he'll face judgment but with a good recommendation. Ryan accepts and is introduced to his partner, Jeff Bridges. Jeff's character is a law man from the 1800's who was also shot dead by his partner. The two go after a "dead-o" and stumble onto a plot to reverse the tunnel that takes the dead up to judgment. If the plot is successful, it would cause all the dead people to rain down and pollute the earth. A reviewer said he thought RIPD was too similar to the Men in Black series. I disagree. In the Men in Black movies, the partners are people who are alive and are enlisted in an organization to capture aliens. In RIPD, the partners are people who are dead and are trying to capture dead people who have escaped judgment. Also, the plot in RIPD is about Ryan and Jeff stopping this tunnel from being reversed. So I don't think RIPD is similar to Men in Black at all. The plot is fresh, new and very entertaining. Also, I thought Jeff Bridges was extremely funny. Ryan Reynolds did a good job and fit the character he was playing.

Fun movie to kill some time

-----------------A NO-SPOILER REVIEW ZONE. ------------------- Absolute fun riot stuffed full of both easy jokey lines and deliciously twisty, weird semi-demi-philosophical banter that I could not get enough of! Nearly non-stop *big* action and real-enough paranormal effects...plus outrageous, terrific acting by Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Mary Louise Parker, Kevin Bacon. By 2013 I'd pretty much had my fill of Zombie movies, and this was a fun, genius take on other possibilities for dead dudes. And dudesses. The bizarro rules of RIPD's universe of (sort-of) resurrected cowboy lawmen, corrupt cops, invading "Dead -Ohs", and the comically efficient bureaucrats of some Eternal Mystery Management Team/ God/s actually had enough logic to anchor the ongoing outrageous action sequences, side stories... and Looming Cosmic Battle. I watch this movie every Christmas/Hannukah just to keep the Holiday drama in perspective. And nope, it certainly is *not* a repeat of GHOST BUSTERS, as a couple of critics said back in 2013. They had clearly forgotten GB to come up with that. My take on the panning of the film was that RIPD was so outrageously different in its paranormal horror, thriller, comedy mashupness, that many critics were too lazy to abandon their rubber stamp classification routine. RIPD --like Jeff Bridges' other great dark comedy hit THE GREAT LEBOWSKI-- violates simple categories. I can see how this film might send a little DID I JUST SEE THAT??!!! shock up the spines of both absolute atheists and fundamentalist Christians. I think that's a good thing. And it's why I suspect there was some boycotting of RIPD. AND THEN THERE'S THIS DEPT.: Jeff Bridges' resurrected cowboy lawman has genius and often showstopper lines; he carries the movie. It's because of the accuracy of the 1870s cowboy lawman lingo --more wordy in the kind of near-Biblical way of speaking, kind of Mark Twain, that I think it's hard to catch the jokes-within-jokes and multiple irony going on. Back in the day, many Americans living on farms and ranches learned to read from the King James vers. of the Bible. You can see it in newspapers from that era, as well. They didn't talk like comic book and vid game characters then, so R.I.P.D. has some historical accuracy built into this rich, character. The aging lawman also has a bit of kink going on with his supervisor...which spiced up the cop-buddy film aspects to keep it interesting on a whole other level. Don't miss RIPD. It was great action + hilarious writing + some of the best pacing in any film, make that any kind of film, ever. SIDE NOTE FOR EDUCATORS: If you teach philosophy, religion, or film, I'm betting you'd generate great discussions by screening or assigning RIPD for your class.

Good

R.I.P.D. is... a complicated thing. It's based on a Dark Horse comic, but it's also kind of a rip-off of Men in Black. Men in Black the film, not the comic. It looks like they intended to achieve the same success as the MiB not by following the same procedure and adapting the story in a way that'd be more fitting and interesting for its world, but by simply redoing MiB but exchanging "aliens" for "dead people". But I'm getting ahead of myself. The film stars Ryan Reynolds as Nick, a policeman who steals gold from a drug bust with his partner Bobby (played by Kevin Bacon, which sort of ruins any suspense into realizing who's going to be the villain), but then he gets second thoughts and wants out. Not wanting to take any chances, Bobby murders Nick in the middle of a firefight. After he hits the floor, Nick is lifted into a portal to the afterlife, where he is taken to the R.I.P.D., a place where he's given the opportunity to use his skills as policeman instead of going to purgatory. There, he's joined by Roy (Jeff Bridges), former Civil War fighter, as his new partner, in order to pursue and arrest "deadoes", renegade souls who refuse to go on and so turn into monsters. But then they're dragged into a plot by the deadoes to escape hell and invade the Earth and Nick's stolen gold is a key element. So, let's check onto the list of cliches, shall we? Buddy cops who can't stand each other at first but warm up to each other at the end? Check. Trigger-happy cowboy with an accent who shoots first and aks questions later? Check. Policeman runs into catastrophic scenario in his first day? Check. Guy who wants out from a crime and doesn't even suspect he might be killed for it? Check. Villain who lets himself be easily captured so he can wreak havoc at the heroes headquarters? Check. Kidnapping the hero's girlfriend at the climax? Check. And many, MANY more. Then there are the specific rip-offs. Besides the obvious MiB vibe, there are obvious plot points from Ghost, and the whole "dead souls refusing to move on and staying to wander on Earth, turning into monsters" is something I vividly remember from somewhere else, but it's killing me that I can't remember where it's from. But maybe I'm being a bit unfair. Movies take plot ideas or even entire scenes from other ones and put a new spin on them, or the characters are interesting enough that we don't care about the lack of originality. But the sad truth is that R.I.P.D. doesn't even try. The characters are all stereotypes played with no real interest by their actors. The situations are generic enough that you're easily able to predict the next thing with great accuracy. How about the comedy? Well, you need jokes and funny situations for that, and this movie only acts like there are, but most of the time, there aren't. Well, then, "What about the action?", you might ask. Unfortunately, that is lacking too. There are very few action scenes, and they're either uninteresting, downright boring or hard to look at seriously due to the terrible CGI. The very first scene in the film shows some CGI so bad you'd swear someone photoshopped a PSX cutscene in the middle of a live-action film. I'm not gonna lie, there are a couple of interesting ideas on the film. Dead people are unable to communicate with the loved ones who they are, so they look and sound different, and their speech mangles if they try to say who they are. They all appear to other people as different humans. Nick shows up as an old asian man and Roy as a blonde, attractive woman. Indian food reveals the monsters' true aspect. But in general, there's really not much good going on here. Reynolds looks completely uninterested and Bridges accent is so terrible it makes you uncomfortable hearing it every time. I really can't go and say this is a BAD film, since there's really nothing that's insulting, stupid or doesn't work for its premise, but there's an inherent laziness to the film. It's like a made-by-numbers movie, as if they chose the plot, characters, setting and dialogue by throwing darts at a board and so it's hard to recommend, but I can't just tell people to avoid it. It's really not hard to make an attractive film working almost exclusively with stereotypes (look at, say, Avatar), but you need to give your movie some appeal, which this film lacks. Ultimately, it's not a bad experience, but it's a forgettable one.

Funny movie

Good

Nice Comedy with action movie. Surrounding effects are superb happy to watch in 5.1 channel. Amazing price Blu ray Cd. Thanks for Amazon. 👍

My review is about the disc itself and not the movie...although, I will say I love these type of films...just a casual watch but love to see great steering of sound and great movie action, and this disc has it all. The picture in 3D was great,especially at the beginning and the end of the movie...the in between parts were good also but just subtle enough so as not to spoil the effect when it did happen...too much can wear a bit thin and your eyes begin not to notice the 3D as much..The sound had great steering and the affects were placed just right from left to right...so if you just want a movie romp with great 3D look no further...Cheers

Super film

Product is excellent ! Not pleased with the dummy who delivered it ! Stuffed the package into my mailbox (breaking the lid) when there is a sign on my door with delivery instructions. How do you miss a sign with 3 inch lettering ???

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