Special effects look cool, but are on the cheap side. This production uses okay sets, props, and costumes. Kevin Bacon is pretty much himself, and I loved watching Mary-Louise Parker. Acting is a mixed bag: Ryan Reynolds is strangely flat and emotionless throughout, save for the few love scenes, while Jeff Bridges steals the show repeatedly, in a role that almost seems to parody his role from True Grit. The film uses a lot of stylish camera moves, fast-zooms, and slow-motion effects, which you could either see as being really cool or really dumb. It shows just enough to make the plot work, but it never explains much, never builds on the things it briefly touches on, and never really makes us care.
However, the plot is pretty standard fare, and it never takes the time to truly invest the audience in the world it portrays. It does a fine enough job of introducing the characters, slapping them together, and crafting some dynamic chemistry between them. The story overall is pretty fast and compact. Sounds fun, right? For whatever reason, it all comes off as a superfluous effort to build comedy from being weird it worked so well for the Men In Black films, but it all falls rather flat in RIPD. Everybody perceives the two main characters as a hot blonde chick and an old Chinese dude. Hyde.pretty much all the monsters look like that, perhaps cross-bred with the zombies from I Am Legend). It's a weird world where Indian food causes the villainous "dead-o's" to "pop" into gaudy monsters (if you remember the beginning of Van Helsing, with Mr. The overall premise of an undead police department is pretty neat, they use a lot of cool weapons, and they have some really quirky rules and ideas. It is a shame, because the film has some unique ideas here and there.
I was never bored, but I was never fully engaged or invested in things. The overall tone felt really uneven the movie was fairly serious at times, deadpan in others, and overblown the rest of the time. However, it is very manic, over-the-top, and strangely cartoony. As far as the action goes, there is quite a bit of mass destruction and plenty of shoot-outs and fights. Some of the most amusing moments emerge from the interplay between the characters, and the clever gag in which everybody sees them as different people. The comedy never made me laugh outright, but there are amusing lines and situations throughout. Alas, this turned out to be one of those cases where the trailer is better than the movie itself. From the trailer, I had high hopes this film would deliver a smashing spectacle with great humor and a unique premise.
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