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  ProdID: 5162 - R.I.P.D.Directed byRobert Schwentke Product Score: 8.0 
R.I.P.D.

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Available : January 2014

R.I.P.D. (Rest In Peace Department) is a 2013 action comedy film by director Robert Schwentke.

Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Bacon star in this blockbuster action comedy! Its MIB meet Ghostbusters with the Rest in Peace Department (RIPD) out to save planet! A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him.
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alexmoulton   Review #13015 - Dated: 15th of December, 2014
  Author: alexmoulton

I had never heard of this film, before finding it amongst my flatmates movie collection, but I gave it a view. Within the first few minutes, I contemplated turning it off, as the first thing I see is an incredibly computer generated (not a chance that this looks even the slightest bit real) obese monster defying physics. But as the character reminded me of a "Heavy" from the "Team Fortress 2" game franchise, I decided to watch it through.

It very much has a "Men in Black" feel to it, with just switching out Aliens, and replacing it with dead people (yes, there may be a dead people invasion on the cards), but the plot itself, was pretty reasonable. The main plot follows a department of dead cops that are put back to work to try maintain balance by capturing people that have died, but aren't...you know...dying. It worked well as a comedy, coming up with wacky solutions to many of the questions that one would have in such a scenario (Why does noone recognise these dead hero cops? How do you find a dead person? How do you test if someone is alive? If you're dead...can you be killed?).

It certainly gets a bit far-fetched, and there are many points in the film where you know what is going on and get exasperated that the "cops" aren't aware of it, but overall it was an enjoyable film. I will admit it took a while to get over the horrible CGI, but overall, it probably worked to the films advantage considering the comedic value. Would I watch it again? I probably would. Would I talk about the film with friends? Definitely.

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CorrinaS   Review #10600 - Dated: 13th of February, 2014
  Author: CorrinaS

With the weather being horrid outside and hubby and I being off work we decided to hire out some movies. Only problem is we have very different tastes but when we read what R.I.P.D was about we both agreed it was one we would both watch. It ticked all the boxes for us action, comedy and well known actors. I like the fact too it was advertised as MIB meets Ghostbusters two movies I really like.

The movie starts with Nick a Boston police officer hiding evidence he took from a case. After thinking about it he decides being a bad cop isn't for him and he tells his partner he can't do it anymore. His partner not wanting Nick to come clean shoots him to keep him quiet. Nick then heads towards judgement but gets pulled into R.I.P.D (rest in peace department) instead. Nick has a chance to join their force for 100 years or to take his chances at judgement as a dirty cop. Nick joins the department and is teamed up with Roy an officer who would much rather work alone. Together the return to earth to hunt out deados (the dead who have escaped judgement). While hunting up deados they uncover a lot more and together learn to work as a team.

The special effects are well done and are mainly brought into the movie through fight scenes and the unveiling of deados. The deados certainly take on some very interesting forms through out the movie!
There are some great one liners in the movie and I love the fact we see Nick and Roy for who they are but to the world they are seen as an old Asian guy and a busty blonde, throughout the movie they give you shots of the two of them as they are seen to the world.

I really enjoyed the movie its a fun light hearted action movie which appealed to both me and my husband. It is one I could certainly sit through and watch again, its ones of those movies I'm sure the more you watch it the more witty lines you will pick up.



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mizim   Review #10582 - Dated: 12th of February, 2014
  Author: mizim

This was described as being a mix of Men in Black and Ghostbusters and I have to say I agree, there is definitely a Men in Black/Ghostbusters vibe going on here.

Ryan Reynolds plays Nick, a recently murdered (by his partner) police officer for Boston's finest. He ends up heading towards judgement and then gets swooped up by the R.I.P.D. (Rest in Peace Department) who offer him a good word with Judgement in return for 100 years service, to which he agrees. He then gets teamed up with Roy and they set out to return the deados (dead people who manage to stay on Earth) and at the same time find out a plot to release all those in hell onto Earth.

The special effects in this are pretty good, but there are a couple of times when it doesn't look quite complete and looks a bit too plasticy. I did rather like the transformations from looking like an ordinary human to a deado but with our main bad guy it looked a little too fake once he had transformed into a deado, so that could have been done far better in my opinion.

There were some good jokes and one-liners. The ongoing joke being that to everyone else Nick is a short, old, asian man hanging out with Roy who looks like a busty blond woman. One of my favourite parts is when a man approaches Roy, giving him a 'you could be a model' line and Roy replies as such - "Excuse me? I'm not a piece of meat put on this earth for your gratification, I'm a woman. Respect me or I will castrate you like a three-year-old steer."

This wasn't a perfect film but my husband and I really enjoyed it and may well end up buying it on special one day.

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