When I went to see this I thought it looked kind of like Men in Black. When I saw it I was surprised at how many ideas it stole from that film. Instead of being as good as the first MIB it is even worse than MIB 2. It is drivel and through the whole move I kept thinking of ways they could have made better choices and made a better movie with it's intriguing premise.
Like MIB it: Is about a pair of supernatural law enforcement partners, one older, one a rookie introduced into this secret organization. They dress in cool outfits and drive an old fashioned car, and have special weapons that they use against the creatures. The creatures are like in MIB in that they pose as ordinary people who seem weird until they reveal themselves to be CGI creatures, aliens in MIB, here.. I don't know what they are. They are called Dead-o's. I guess they are dead guys who escaped from wherever they are from and turn into monsters when they sniff coke. None of this is explained.
Maybe it would have made more sense if instead the creatures were demons who escaped from hell and want to use an artifact to unleash hell on earth, and the RIPD are intrusted with killing them to return them whence they came. Maybe it would have been interesting if instead of just complaining about being dead and missing his wife, the hero realized that he now has what most people long for, to know that life after death is real, that God is real, heaven and hell are real, and he gets a new life to contemplate that.
The Deado monsters look like poorly designed crap. When you go to see a movie with CGI characters you expect more.
So much about this movie did not work. The biggest flaw is the running gag that they are disguised to the rest of the world to look like an old Chinese guy and a hot young woman. In MIB a big part of the fantasy is looking cool, and having a cool job. This fantasy is ruined by this cheap gag that isn't funny that continues throughout the movie.
Another thing that doesn't work is making the agents invincible. They can fall off a building, and hit their skull on the pavement and be fine and not even feel anything. This takes us out of the action and removes any sense of danger or being grounded and makes it look like a cartoon.
This movie wastes the talents of Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds has become a magnet for bad would-be blockbusters. RIPD could have been to the mystery of life after death what MIB was to life in the universe, and it wasted that opportunity. 2/10
Like MIB it: Is about a pair of supernatural law enforcement partners, one older, one a rookie introduced into this secret organization. They dress in cool outfits and drive an old fashioned car, and have special weapons that they use against the creatures. The creatures are like in MIB in that they pose as ordinary people who seem weird until they reveal themselves to be CGI creatures, aliens in MIB, here.. I don't know what they are. They are called Dead-o's. I guess they are dead guys who escaped from wherever they are from and turn into monsters when they sniff coke. None of this is explained.
Maybe it would have made more sense if instead the creatures were demons who escaped from hell and want to use an artifact to unleash hell on earth, and the RIPD are intrusted with killing them to return them whence they came. Maybe it would have been interesting if instead of just complaining about being dead and missing his wife, the hero realized that he now has what most people long for, to know that life after death is real, that God is real, heaven and hell are real, and he gets a new life to contemplate that.
The Deado monsters look like poorly designed crap. When you go to see a movie with CGI characters you expect more.
So much about this movie did not work. The biggest flaw is the running gag that they are disguised to the rest of the world to look like an old Chinese guy and a hot young woman. In MIB a big part of the fantasy is looking cool, and having a cool job. This fantasy is ruined by this cheap gag that isn't funny that continues throughout the movie.
Another thing that doesn't work is making the agents invincible. They can fall off a building, and hit their skull on the pavement and be fine and not even feel anything. This takes us out of the action and removes any sense of danger or being grounded and makes it look like a cartoon.
This movie wastes the talents of Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds has become a magnet for bad would-be blockbusters. RIPD could have been to the mystery of life after death what MIB was to life in the universe, and it wasted that opportunity. 2/10