★
You must be joking. Did somebody actually think that this story was going to make a good movie? “R.I.P.D.” (2013) is essentially one of the worst action films ever made, with a story that is so ridiculous and poorly represented that we don’t care about anyone or anything going on. 
The film opens with Boston Police Detective Nick Walker (Ryan Reynolds), as he is burying some gold that he and his partner, Bobby (Kevin Bacon), have stolen. Naturally, Nick has a change of heart when his wife (Stephanie Szostak) assures him that she is content with life as it is now. The following day, Nick tells Bobby that he wants to return the gold, thus prompting Bobby to kill his partner.
Now that he’s dead, Nick learns from his proctor (Mary-Louise Parker) that if he would like to improve his earthly status before he meets judgment, he can join the Rest In Peace Department and help other dead lawmen capture souls who have refused to leave earth- from now on know as “deados”.
Of course he accepts and is introduced to his new partner, an old west lawman by the name of Roy Pulsipher (Jeff Bridges).
Together they return to Boston, and wouldn’t you know it, it turns out that the same gold Nick had stolen is actually pieces of a mythical device that will allow deados to take over earth permanently. Roy and Nick have to overcome their differences in the normal buddy-cop-movie way, in order to set things right, as well as extracting a little revenge on Bobby while they’re here.
Coincidences, clichés, bad dialogue, ridiculous monster-type villains and some pretty awful acting make this film abysmal. 
The characters are uninteresting because they have been created poorly and without any real depth. The story seems like it was written by ten-year-olds who have watched too much tv- but not even good, well thought out shows- ridiculous ones that have no story arc. Ryan Reynolds seems like he’s sleepwalking, Kevin Bacon is just out-of-place, Mary-Louise Parker seems half-dead, but none of that comes close to touching Jeff Bridges, who has somehow managed to take his Academy Award nominated performance as Rooster Cogburn in “True Grit” (2010), crank it up about twenty notches, and just make the character annoying and dumb. It’s sad and embarrassing to see, trust me.
As I do try to point out any positives in a film, I must say the visual effects are done quite well, so even though its ridiculous action, its well done ridiculous action. 
There are also a few laughs, mostly concerning the visual appearance of Roy and Nick when they are on earth, as they appear to the living as a supermodel (Marisa Miller) and an old Chinese man (James Hong). I’m sure you can figure out which is which.
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