It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Instant Favorite.

Film Perfection

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

I read a lot about this black comedy. Okay, I love Jeff Bridges and yeah, I like Kevin Bacon and Ryan Reynolds, so I was expecting some fun, and did I get it not. I got what I expected as it was fun, it was fast, it was often hilarious, but then it was very empty, predictable, generic, very typical. Was Jeff Bridges any good. He was, yeah, but then he was very obnoxious and very tiresome. Ryan? he was Okay, but never surpassing any level of being just regular. Kevin Bacon is always cool and menacing, but too never above the regular level. The CGI are awesome and often breathtaking, and yeah, the dead ones are funny, too. It was a warm welcome to see Robert Knepper as one of those. The plot is not fresh or original and it is evident very soon. Then, I was just skipping some scenes and yawning at some boring dialogues. It was very silly, true to the word's meaning. This is the movie that we can watch and then happily forget as a throwaway ditty.

(Originally seen a few years ago) Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges will surely want to forget this one, it's terribly incoherent, excruciatingly unfunny and just atrocious. The action looks as if it were filmed by UWE BOLL and the dialogue looks as if it were conjured up by a Neanderthal, there's not much to say, it's an atrocious film and the worst film of 2013. 0/10

If you've seen Men In Black, Ghost, and Ghostbusters, then you can pretty much skip this one. Throw in a bit of Evil Dead (Deados aka Deadites), and you have one of the most derivative movies I can think of. Still, due to the great cast and fun effects, it's not entirely bad. Just don't expect anything new.

Back when I first saw "Men in Black," I wondered what it would be like if Jay and Kay had to go up against ghosts, zombies, vampires and other paranormal entities. This is not that movie except superficially. Ryan Reynolds plays a police officer who is struck down in the line of combat, but in some sort of almost "Beetlejuice" arrangement, he has to police the world's ghosts before he can cross over. Jeff Bridges is his partner, a former Wild West sheriff, and they can only appear on Earth "Quantum Leap" style as their human hosts, an elderly Chinese man and a stunningly attractive statuesque blonde. If you've watched this far, you've realized it's already more convoluted than "Quantum Leap" and less entertaining or creative than "Beetlejuice." Now, I know "R.I.P.D." is based on a more successful comic book, but maybe more effort should have been put on the script than the special effects. It has a few funny moments, several gross scenes and tries to be exciting, but the only good part is the repartee between Bridges and Reynolds. Kevin Bacon is annoyingly tedious, there are numerous moments that just don't make sense much less feel as if they belong in the movie and some moments seem almost incoherently tagged on (a house that looks normal but is actually condemned??) Even Reynolds own pining for his wife feels stolen from "Spawn." Bottom line, this movie could have been streamlined to a much more tightly and coherent flick. "MIB" had much better acting, writing, visual gags and a stronger concept based on the extraterrestrial phenomenon. For "R.I.P.D." to have worked on a "Beetlejuice" level, it would have been better to have some concepts viewers would have recognized without knowing the comic books.