Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Feb 25, 2023 1/4

An endurance test masquerading as a motion picture.

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Joe Leydon The Moving Picture Show Oct 18, 2022

R.I.P.D. isn’t nearly as bad as its near-deafening advance buzz indicated – though, really, what movie could be? – but that doesn’t mean the laughs and gasps are satisfyingly abundant in this loud and clunky sci-fi fantasy action-comedy.

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Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 21, 2020 1.5/4.0

Admit it. It even sounds stale.

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Leigh Paatsch Herald Sun (Australia) Jun 12, 2020 2/5

Starts very solidly, but goes very soft by the end.

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Sergio Benítez Espinof Apr 15, 2020

It is among the worst examples of what comics on film have left us over the years. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Kathi Maio The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Mar 10, 2020

R.I.P.D. is a movie that suffers from a passel of lost opportunities.

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Ryan Syrek The Reader (Omaha, NE) Aug 27, 2019 D

Based on a comic book that literally had to be better, writers Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi and David Dobkin did director Robert Schwentke no favors, but Schwentke directed The Time Traveler's Wife, so he had it coming.

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Micheal Compton Bowling Green Daily News Apr 10, 2019 D

R.I.P.D. tries desperately to capture the same blend of action and comedy that worked so well in the "Men in Black" series, but the film only proves how difficult that balance really is.

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Emmet Asher-Perrin Reactor Jan 14, 2019

The actual conceit of hunting down the dead might have played better if the film weren't clearly trying to rip-off Men in Black in the most unambiguous way possible.

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Sarah Gopaul Digital Journal Nov 16, 2018

Watching R.I.P.D., the unfamiliar viewer is given the distinct impression that this movie is probably an entertaining graphic novel -- but it's a terrible film.

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Tara Thorne The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Nov 16, 2018

To call R.IP.D. "cartoonish" is probably a compliment... but it's not quite fun enough for these four excellent actors to justify taking the money.

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Aaron Peterson The Hollywood Outsider Oct 10, 2018 5/10

The performances are also fun, even if the story is derivative and the special effects look to be photo-shopped at a K-mart.

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Camilla Long Sunday Times (UK) Mar 6, 2018 3/5

The chase scenes and special effects are great, or at least much better than I anticipated.

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Rick Marshall Digital Trends Feb 7, 2018

Red director Robert Schwentke comic book adaption of R.I.P.D., starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds, blends the fun and the familiar for a supernatural buddy-cop adventure.

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Roxana Hadadi Punch Drunk Critics Jan 9, 2017 0/5

Please, please don't see it. Value your time more than I did.

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Dan Mecca The Film Stage Jul 11, 2016 C

What we are left with is a mildly entertaining, utterly harmless mid-summer blockbuster that marks another misstep in the career of Ryan Reynolds.

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Mark Jackson Epoch Times Jun 18, 2016 2/5

Bake a 'Men In Black' pie; throw in some 'Ghostbusters,' 'This Is the End,' 'True Grit,' and 'Weeds,' drain the fun out, and you get the half-baked, derivative 'R.I.P.D.'

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J. Olson Cinemixtape Apr 17, 2016 1/5

The kind of terrible that doesn't wash out, destined to be remembered among the pantheon of big budget bombs like "The Adventures Of Pluto Nash" and "Cutthroat Island."

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David Pierce The Verge Jan 22, 2014

It's not a buddy-cop movie, nor is it an action movie. It's just one vaguely funny joke told for 98 minutes.

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Robert Kojder What Culture Oct 30, 2013 2/5

It's a predictable and cliché filled soap opera mess played straight with an afterlife gimmick.

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