TAKE 1: One Man’s Opinion
…because
film is largely subjective
R.I.P.D.
Release Date: 19 July 2013 Runtime: 96 Minutes
Review Date: 25 August 2013 Rating: 3 (of 6)
The trailer
looked as though, while a little silly, R.I.P.D.
might just be entertaining. It was no
such thing.
The movie opened
up on an overly fake CGI character which just set a negative tone right out of
the gate--a lot of the CGI characters could have been modeled with good old special
effects make-up, only resorting to CGI when outlandish stunts came into play,
which would have made the finished product look a lot better.
Furthermore, the
one main character says he's been with the department for 500 years (these
officers are recruited once they die), yet elsewhere he says he fought with the
North and elsewhere still that he was out West when that frontier was being
explored, all anachronisms--the age of the cowboy and the Civil War would have
transpired long after his death and so he wouldn't have been involved. (Now, it is possible I misunderstood him, as
he was speaking with an accent, but 150 doesn't sound anything like 500. Nor does 380.)
Even a cast with
the likes of Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Bacon and Mary-Louise Parker
couldn't salvage this film that was DOA and should have been allowed to RIP. I saw in the credits that this is based on a
comic book, making it the only comic book movie this summer
that you SHOULDN'T go see. Let it be relegated to background noise and
nothing more.
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