R.I.P.D.

"To protect and serve the living."

2013 1h 36m EN

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★5.9TMDB · 4,415

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Synopsis

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A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him.

“To protect and serve the living.”

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Cast

Jeff Bridges
Roy Pulsipher
Ryan Reynolds
Nick Walker
Kevin Bacon
Bobby Hayes
Mary-Louise Parker
Proctor
Stephanie Szostak
Julia
Robert Knepper
Nawlicki
James Hong
Nick's Avatar / Jerry Chen
Marisa Miller
Roy's Avatar

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Robert Schwentke
Writers: Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi, Matt Manfredi
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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$130M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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MONEY

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Earned back only 47% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 13 years ago.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "R.I.P.D. Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

CAST

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534+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Robert Schwentke, shot by Alwin H. Küchler. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Christophe Beck. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Mark Helfrich shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Robert Schwentke directs. Alwin H. Küchler behind the camera. Christophe Beck scores. Mark Helfrich cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1$130M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Earned back only 47% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
3Released 13 years ago.
4Part of the "R.I.P.D. Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5534+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Robert Schwentke, shot by Alwin H. Küchler. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Christophe Beck. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Mark Helfrich shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Bacon carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "To protect and serve the living.".
11IMDB entry: tt0790736 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 16 themes, including "gold", "wife", "detective", "investigation".
13Released under 13 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Alwin H. Küchler
Original score: Christophe Beck
Editing: Mark Helfrich
Production design: Alec Hammond
Costume design: Susan Lyall
Makeup / hair: Nacoma Whobrey
VFX supervisor: Jesper Kjölsrud
Stunt coordinator: Oakley Lehman
Runtime: 96 min · 1h 36m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $130,000,000
Box office: $61,600,000
Return: 47% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: R.I.P.D. (2013)

Part of

R.I.P.D. Collection

A series of films about a special police force known as the Rest in Peace Department that protects humanity from the undead.

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Robert Schwentke

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Dark Jedi2018-01-12
★ 6/10
As far as I am concerned this is another movie that demonstrates that the rating of the so-called “professional” critics used by Rotten Tomatoes are next to useless, at least as far as I am concerned and the official rating system at RT in general is deeply flawed. Yes I know that I have been harping about this before but I think it deserves to be repeated. Sure, this movie is not the greatest I have ever seen but come on! If you go to the movie’s page at RT you see a big rotten 13% flashing at you. That makes the unaware reader think the movie is a real turkey and that to me is just recycled bull food. At sites like IMDb and TMDb the movies gets around 5.5 out of 10 which, although not great, is much more reasonable. Also the viewer rating says 42% which looks bad but if you look at the details you see that the average rating is 3 out of 5 stars which to me is more an “okay” rating. The RT ratings is seems to be made to make all movies except the blockbusters look bad. Anyway, with that little rant over with, let us get to the movie itself. Personally I found it a quite entertaining movie that could have been better. There are quite a few funny scenes and the special effects are not bad. Jeff Bridges is quite funny as the veteran sheriff although his character is still one of the things that could have been done better. He is supposed to be the knowledgeable veteran but in many scenes it seems like the other way around. His stubborn stupidity is sometimes rather annoying. The plot is fairly simple and straightforward. Nothing fantastic and a bit contrived perhaps but good enough to string the special effects scenes together leading up to the grand finale. The cumin nonsense and the scene where Roy is stuffing his head with spicy food to get a dead to reveal himself is a bit of a downer though. A lot of people have been claiming that it is a M.I.B. rip-off. I think that is rubbish. Yes, there are similarities but then every movie with a veteran, a rookie and a sci-fi or a fantasy theme could be said to be a rip-off in that case. There are so many movies made that one will always find similarities. Just live with it. As I write before, on the whole I found the movie rather entertaining and me and the kids sure enjoyed our movie evening.
Rob2023-05-23
★ 6/10
Yes, ok, it's a terrible film, but in the best way. It's worth watching just to see Jeff Bridges having so much fun sending up his character and himself.