Profanity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Violence:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Sex: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Summary
R.I.P.D is a Sci Fi that slightly pretends to be a western. Even though it has very modern themes, it is much more of a fantasy film that I expected. The movie begins with Ryan Reynolds as a normal police guy who stole some gold from a drug dealer. He did it to help give him and his wife a better life but got cold feet about 24 hours in. He goes to the office and tells his partner (who also committed the big crime of stealing gold from low lifers) that he wants to turn in the gold. The partner (yes, it a classic story of good guy backs out of bad things, good guy's friend betrays him and good guy gets the now bad guy back) tricks Nick (the main character ((DUH))) into thinking that he's a good guy too. I mean, you think you know a guy, right?
Nick and the "partner" Hayes get a whiff (no pun intended) of a drug making facility nearby and they leave the station with members of SWAT to get the bad guys!
Predictably, there is a giant shoot out with a lot of explosions and people flying through the air. Just as predictably, Hayes sees the perfect time to shoot Nick dead and seizes it magnificently. Well, at least falling from 5 stories and hitting right on your head is a dramatic way to die. Make sure to thank the filmmakers for a nice dramatic ending in Nick's obituary.
However, instead of everything becoming bright white like in the classic way of dying, the world stops. Everything freezes in place and Nick conveniently walks to the exact place where he can get sucked into the black hole that brings him into the RIPD over Boston headquarters.
Nick gets briefed on the fact that he's dead (he seems remarkably okay with the whole thing) and Mrs. Proctor (the creepy woman from the trailer who is briefing him) bribes him into going into the no so dead police force.
I guess this movie could technically be classified as a zombie movie because their all dead. Anyway, Nick meets his new partner (spoiler, this one does not end in backstabbing) in a very dramatic way when he shoots down a "deado" or bad spirit that escaped judgment. I still wonder how you can kill a dead person which happens more than once in the movie by the way (spoilers). The other officers are pissed at the man who we learn's name is Roy. Roy doesn't like Nick and thinks he's a rookie (well, Roy's an old town cowboy who has about 200 years on Nick anyway. Here's another piece of unimportant (well, the whole movie is dumb and unimportant, I'm just saying that this is particularly unimportant) juicy gossip: Roy dated Mrs. Proctor.
Roy takes Nick under his wing begrudgingly (I'm sure Nick goes begrudgingly too: I doubt Jeff Bridges under wing smells very good) and brings him down to earth again to visit his own funeral. As Nick quickly discovers when he tries to talk to his wife, he looks like an old chinese guy to everybody but Roy and (conveniently) the cameras.
They than go to bust a deado who is posing as a usual guy. Right before Roy somehow kills him, adding another dead guy to his impossible kill quota, it spits up some gold that looks like the gold the Nick stole.
Nick, being angry at Roy, chucks him in front of a bus which doesn't kill him but is just painful. Then, they return to RIPD and give the evidence to the Evidence department. Then Nick, who is maybe not the best influence, convinces Roy to go down to earth again and talk to one of Roy's informants. He's a deado who just liked the Red Sox and wasn't a big problem to anybody.
The informant tricks them into thinking that the deados aren't plotting anything (not very hard, their very trusting at the RIPD) and Nick gives him the gold as thanks.
Nick and Roy watch from their car as the informant goes and chats with Hayes and gives him the gold that Nick gave him. They then follow Hayes and he goes to visit Nick's wife Julia. Hayes finds the buried gold in the back yard and Julia is mad at Nick's memory for hiding it from her (Oh boo hoo, he stole some gold! BIG DEAL!!!!!).
Nick and Roy continue to follow Hayes as he meets with another deado disguised as a human. The new deado gives Hayes some more gold (Wow, I wish my friends were deados. I'd be really wealthy) and then tries to go away. However, Roy and Nick catch him and bring him into a large freezer room at the back of a restaurant. They question him but he doesn't want to be questioned and changes into his real deado form. Nick and Roy chase it out onto the street and humans see it. Big No no, by the way!
This deado escapes and Nick and Roy make it back to the RIPD HQ safely (well, hard not to if your already dead). However, Mrs. Proctor is really pissed off at them and she tells them that they will be killed (again, don't see how thats possible as their already dead) the next day.
Nick tries to go and talk to his wife as she's running on the track that night to say goodbye (because he's about to die again remember) but naturally when assaulted by an old Chinese guy, she runs away.
Roy and Nick think that Hayes might be a deado so they go to his house the next day. He is a deado and they discover this by many complicated means like making him take off a necklace.
They bring him to the RIPD and his evil plot is uncovered when he manages to enact a device that makes everyone except for deados freeze up. While he's taking all of the gold that RIPD has in evidence, Hayes explains that he's going to use an old Egyptian curse to turn the death tunnel backwards and fill the earth with dead people. He needs the gold to make an X of gold that controls the curse.
Roy and Nick return to earth and battle their way to (Product Placement alert) the Boston Commonwealth building. where Hayes has already started his epic reversal of death. He needs a human sacrifice and chooses Julia (Nick's wife if you need a refresher). He stabs her right as Nick and Roy arrive on the top of the building where the death stopping X is located. There is an epic battle between deados and Roy and Nick which they somehow win even though its three or four to one.
Somehow, the only deado still around is Hayes and he points his gun in Nick's face. He tries to shoot Nick but finds the he used up all of his bullets. He then starts beating cement blocks against Nick's face while Roy tries to turn off the X thing. In the end, Roy has to pull a truck on top of it to stop it.
Hayes looks around in anger and, when he turns back around, Nick shoots him.
Then, Nick goes over to dying Julia who can suddenly see who Nick really is and somehow, he manages to convince her to stay alive. How she could control that, I don't know. Then, the film ends.
Nick and the "partner" Hayes get a whiff (no pun intended) of a drug making facility nearby and they leave the station with members of SWAT to get the bad guys!
Predictably, there is a giant shoot out with a lot of explosions and people flying through the air. Just as predictably, Hayes sees the perfect time to shoot Nick dead and seizes it magnificently. Well, at least falling from 5 stories and hitting right on your head is a dramatic way to die. Make sure to thank the filmmakers for a nice dramatic ending in Nick's obituary.
However, instead of everything becoming bright white like in the classic way of dying, the world stops. Everything freezes in place and Nick conveniently walks to the exact place where he can get sucked into the black hole that brings him into the RIPD over Boston headquarters.
Nick gets briefed on the fact that he's dead (he seems remarkably okay with the whole thing) and Mrs. Proctor (the creepy woman from the trailer who is briefing him) bribes him into going into the no so dead police force.
I guess this movie could technically be classified as a zombie movie because their all dead. Anyway, Nick meets his new partner (spoiler, this one does not end in backstabbing) in a very dramatic way when he shoots down a "deado" or bad spirit that escaped judgment. I still wonder how you can kill a dead person which happens more than once in the movie by the way (spoilers). The other officers are pissed at the man who we learn's name is Roy. Roy doesn't like Nick and thinks he's a rookie (well, Roy's an old town cowboy who has about 200 years on Nick anyway. Here's another piece of unimportant (well, the whole movie is dumb and unimportant, I'm just saying that this is particularly unimportant) juicy gossip: Roy dated Mrs. Proctor.
Roy takes Nick under his wing begrudgingly (I'm sure Nick goes begrudgingly too: I doubt Jeff Bridges under wing smells very good) and brings him down to earth again to visit his own funeral. As Nick quickly discovers when he tries to talk to his wife, he looks like an old chinese guy to everybody but Roy and (conveniently) the cameras.
They than go to bust a deado who is posing as a usual guy. Right before Roy somehow kills him, adding another dead guy to his impossible kill quota, it spits up some gold that looks like the gold the Nick stole.
Nick, being angry at Roy, chucks him in front of a bus which doesn't kill him but is just painful. Then, they return to RIPD and give the evidence to the Evidence department. Then Nick, who is maybe not the best influence, convinces Roy to go down to earth again and talk to one of Roy's informants. He's a deado who just liked the Red Sox and wasn't a big problem to anybody.
The informant tricks them into thinking that the deados aren't plotting anything (not very hard, their very trusting at the RIPD) and Nick gives him the gold as thanks.
Nick and Roy watch from their car as the informant goes and chats with Hayes and gives him the gold that Nick gave him. They then follow Hayes and he goes to visit Nick's wife Julia. Hayes finds the buried gold in the back yard and Julia is mad at Nick's memory for hiding it from her (Oh boo hoo, he stole some gold! BIG DEAL!!!!!).
Nick and Roy continue to follow Hayes as he meets with another deado disguised as a human. The new deado gives Hayes some more gold (Wow, I wish my friends were deados. I'd be really wealthy) and then tries to go away. However, Roy and Nick catch him and bring him into a large freezer room at the back of a restaurant. They question him but he doesn't want to be questioned and changes into his real deado form. Nick and Roy chase it out onto the street and humans see it. Big No no, by the way!
This deado escapes and Nick and Roy make it back to the RIPD HQ safely (well, hard not to if your already dead). However, Mrs. Proctor is really pissed off at them and she tells them that they will be killed (again, don't see how thats possible as their already dead) the next day.
Nick tries to go and talk to his wife as she's running on the track that night to say goodbye (because he's about to die again remember) but naturally when assaulted by an old Chinese guy, she runs away.
Roy and Nick think that Hayes might be a deado so they go to his house the next day. He is a deado and they discover this by many complicated means like making him take off a necklace.
They bring him to the RIPD and his evil plot is uncovered when he manages to enact a device that makes everyone except for deados freeze up. While he's taking all of the gold that RIPD has in evidence, Hayes explains that he's going to use an old Egyptian curse to turn the death tunnel backwards and fill the earth with dead people. He needs the gold to make an X of gold that controls the curse.
Roy and Nick return to earth and battle their way to (Product Placement alert) the Boston Commonwealth building. where Hayes has already started his epic reversal of death. He needs a human sacrifice and chooses Julia (Nick's wife if you need a refresher). He stabs her right as Nick and Roy arrive on the top of the building where the death stopping X is located. There is an epic battle between deados and Roy and Nick which they somehow win even though its three or four to one.
Somehow, the only deado still around is Hayes and he points his gun in Nick's face. He tries to shoot Nick but finds the he used up all of his bullets. He then starts beating cement blocks against Nick's face while Roy tries to turn off the X thing. In the end, Roy has to pull a truck on top of it to stop it.
Hayes looks around in anger and, when he turns back around, Nick shoots him.
Then, Nick goes over to dying Julia who can suddenly see who Nick really is and somehow, he manages to convince her to stay alive. How she could control that, I don't know. Then, the film ends.
Review
You may have picked up from my very subtle sarcasm that I didn't love this movie. For one, it was kind of not nice to obese people (Lot's of the deados were larger is the stomaches than they should have been) and for a second, it was very cheesy.
The movie featured a rather old fashioned seeming eire as it had too many effects. it reminded me of one of those old movies from the nineteen 80s and 90s where visual effects were just starting to come out and get big and all of the movies wanted to have these overly crazy visual effects.
It was also rather like a cartoon. The fact the they couldn't die made it very easy for the movie to be very cartoonish. It struck me, especially in the last scene, that there was a lot of impossible stuff in the movie. I'm not talking about deados or stuff, I'm talking about people falling out of twenty story buildings and getting hit twenty time across the face with a cement block and not getting killed.
The movie wasn't thought out properly either. The fact that you could kill dead people was a lot bit odd and also in the movie, deados don't like pepper. Why? This makes no sense!
One last thing: The movie mocked religion. The whole idea of turning heaven into a police force was pretty mocking of christianity. I didn't mind that but if you don't like your heaven being mocked (if your christian or Jewish that is), don't go to this movie. Don't go anyway, mind you. Unless you like bad movies :)!
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Parental Guidance Information
This is by far the most mundane movie I've reviewed so far. I'd say, sure, bring your kids. There are just a few "scary images" as MPAA calls them but I'd say, as long as you listen to my guide on when to tell your kids to shut their eyes, you're good. Also, the only language they use is "Holy Sh!t" and it'll probably go right over your kids heads.
There is some minor sexual stuff in the beginning but only in the 3rd scene. There's also one time when Jeff Bridges uses the term "Sleeping with" but that will also go right over their heads. Here is a list of scenes to tell you children to shut their eyes.
- The third scene (Sexual stuff: Tell your kids to shut their eyes when Julia says "What's an orange tree doing in our yard?")
- The scene where they go after the first deado (starts with them getting indian food out of the back of their car)
- The last 2 scenes (Scary pictures of Hayes: Tell your kids to shut their eyes when Hayes sniffs in pepper.)
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