R.I.P.D 2013 6 out of 10
R.I.P.D. turned out to be exactly what I thought it would be.
This movie was basically just a Men in Black wannabe. It was based on a comic book called Rest In Peace Department from 2001 which I've never read so I'm not sure how closely it follows the comic. The movie is basically just a rip off of MIB and the short live, awesome low budget TV Show Good vs Evil which aired 2 years before the comic book came out.
So many elements of these two better franchises were reused in this movie that there wasn't anything original about it. Just replace the Men in Black fighting Aliens with deceased cops fighting "Deados" (Dead people that haven't moved on posing as humans). It is basically the same premise with a less interesting dynamic between the old cop Jeff Bridges as the Tommy Lee character and the just dead cop Ryan Reynolds as the cocky rookie. The story is the same as well--they must save the world from complete destruction. That being said I the movie itself was okay --it just wasn't on the level of the film and show it was blatantly copying from.
The main gag of the film was that the characters don't appear to those on earth as themselves. Instead people see Ryan Reynolds character as an old Asian man and Jeff Bridges 1800's wild west sheriff appears as a hot chick. This joke was funny in the trailer -but falls kinda of flat in the film and was yet another thing borrowed from G vs E. In fact the Ryan Reynold's entire character seemed to ripped straight out of G Vs E as he wants to reconnect with his ex and make the dirty cop that killed him pay for what he did. Again the film was a decent rip off of a much better versions of the same story. I'd personally recommend getting your hands on G vs E instead though. It made me miss that show.
Here is the trailer
Here is the opening for G vs E for comparision
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