R.I.P.D.

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

Overall, it's a directionless mess: too expensive for a B-movie, too grown-up for a kids' movie (funerals, bereavement and jokes about Steely Dan) and too infantile for everyone else.

Who thought this was a good idea and why are they still allowed out alone at night?

Bridges (gorgeous and effortlessly leftfield) has saved many a dire film. He tries to hold the fort but it just can't be done.

[A] goofy and derivative supernatural action-adventure, based on a comic-book series by Peter Lenkov.

So generic a cut-and-paste job is the film's every aesthetic cue, it's surprising to even find a director's name surface in the closing credits.

An endurance test masquerading as a motion picture.


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.

Admit it. It even sounds stale.

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