RIPD - scenes to save

Quite noisy, colorful, moved but, in the end, a little 'empty'. I don't think I have much to 'save' for R.I.P.D..

This is a film in which Ryan Reynolds plays a cop who, after being killed in action, happens to be recruited into a special police corps (Rest In Peace Department) in charge to send back to their place all souls escaped from Purgatory. From this scenario the story moves toward solving a case involving Reynolds himself, his wife, his former partner. As well as the fate of the world.

The film is based on jokes and situations that include the classic cliché 'rookie vs veteran' typical of 'buddy cops' films, and some gags tied to the souls escaped, the 'deados' as they are called. There is not much, however, and even the best gags are repeated several times just to play it safe.

What we save, then? Obviously the character of Jeff Bridges, a marshall of the old West played with style and temper, and therefore much enjoyable.