My first movie impression post (I doubt i'll see enough to make it worthwhile).
Grade: C- (average-ish, a decent cheap showing or a rental)
I just saw R.I.P.D. today. If you don't know, RIPD is a movie based off of a Dark Horse comic book (I've never heard of) about dead lawmen fighting the undead menace (and trying to stop a "deado" apocalypse). This movie stars Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges. In it, Bridges plays a grizzled old west style lawman and Reynolds plays a modern day Boston area cop. The RIPD apparently recruits recently deceased police officers with skeletons in their closets (some might say "dirty"). In order to go to a better place in the afterlife (eventually) they are tasked with catching escaped souls (or bodies who didn't cross over). After all, the living world is for the living, you couldn't have it be over-run with "deados" and their taste for cumin.
I guess you could say that this is like Men In Black (and in a way it kind of is). I wouldn't go so far as to call it a rip-off just because it is similar though.
Anyway, I saw the trailer months ago and decided to see it on $5 Sundays.
It wasn't great, but it wasn't awful either (a better written sequel could be interesting). I found it to be entertaining, with snappy dialog (at times, at other times certain lines felt more forced) and decent special effects. In other words, a decent summer movie.
There is a ton of negativity online about this movie (which I see as unfounded). Nothing is new and original anymore. A movie like this isn't trying to re-invent the wheel. I have been hearing how this movie was flopping severely. I was expecting to see 5-10 people in the theatre, what I saw was more like 40-50 (which isn't terrible for a Sunday showing here).
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