R.I.P.D.

You know what? This is not actually as bad as it is said to be. Sort of like a new take on Men in Black, only instead of aliens you have bad dead people that somehow escaped their final judgment. The job of the Rest In Peace Department is to bring them back where they belong.

It is garish. It is ridiculous. It is stupid (of course it is).

But it also has Kevin Bacon. So there is your saving grace. He plays a bad guy (kind of a douche bag, really). He eventually turns out to be the big cheese among the dead ones on earth, even though you go through a big portion of the film before you find out that he is, in fact, dead. There is a reason for him not looking like the rest and - more importantly - not smelling like them. But there is no need to get into that.

What I found funny was that the R.I.P.D. duo of Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds look very different to the living. They have earthly Avatars. Roy (Bridges) is a hot blonde bursting out of her dress and Nick (Reynolds) is an elderly Chinese man.

Also the dead people look rather cool once their fake mortal shell has been busted (through the help of Indian food or, more specifically, cumin).

Not a milestone, to be sure, but entertaining nonetheless.

It is what it is.

5/10