(2.1/10) - This movie failed on pretty much every level; from depressingly predictable outcomes to complete lack of originality and plot.

Ryan Reynolds is a superb actor, who has featured in some of my absolute favourite movies such as ‘6 Underground’ and ‘Deadpool’, but this was a truly shocking action-“comedy.”

I don’t think I have ever watched a movie with so many repeated gags (if you can call them that) and just downright plain and ridiculous moments.

The primary antagonists were literally just fat monsters who basically ran around wreaking havoc and using crazily unreal sci-fi gadgets to provoke mayhem, which I believe I have seen so many times before!

And just when I thought the film couldn’t get any less watchable, there was a lousily lengthy action sequence in the city of Boston that left me feeling super underwhelmed.

Overall, I am very unimpressed with the lack of almost everything good about a Ryan Reynolds movie; it’s a Men In Black rip off that could’ve been made by children aged 4. Roy (Jeff Bridges) and Nick (Ryan Reynolds) have no chemistry whatsoever and most of the movie is just the two of them rambling on about pure nonsense.

Best Scene: The elevator sequence where Nick causes it to fly through the roof (6.9/10)

Extra Note: Don’t bother watching this appalling display of writing and CGI (it’s sooo low-budget and embarrassingly bad at times.)

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.

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.

Nun wo soll ich nur anfangen?! Ich weiß, dass ich bei einem solchen Film wie Rest in Peace Department nicht mit Logik kommen darf, jedoch finde ich das zumindest die Logik innerhalb eines Filmes stimmen sollte. Leider ist das bei dem Werk von Regisseur Robert Schwentke auch nur bedingt der Fall. So fällt recht schnell auf, dass sich Nick, nach seinem tot, nicht einmal wundert, dass er im Himmel landet. Er “fährt” hoch, trifft auf einen Schreibtisch samt Personal das ihm etwas vom Himmel, R.I.P.D und von jüngsten Gericht erzählt. Anstatt sich zu wundern, nimmt er dies kurze Zeit später jedoch als selbstverständlich hin. Weiter ist mir die Tatsache aufgestoßen, dass Rest in Peace Department zwar daran denkt, das man die Toten nicht sehen kann als solche, jedoch gibt es auf der anderen Seite Szenen, die das alles nichtig machen. So haben wir z. B. den Fall, das Nick und Roy einen Verdächtigen verfolgen. Dabei rennt dieser ein Hochaus hoch und zerstört dieses am Ende sogar noch. Also wofür die Tarnung, wenn am Ende es eh die ganze Stadt vernichtet wird und er jeder mitbekommt. Weiter fiel mir auf, dass der Film sehr viel Parallelen zu Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld) hat. Von der Geheimorganisation, über die plötzliche Situation das ein Neuling in diese Organisation rutscht, bis hin zur Tatsache das Selbst die Charaktere sehr viel gleich haben. Roy, der alte eingesessene Polizist beim R.I.P.D trifft auf den neuen, leicht von sich überzeugten, Jungpolizisten Nick. Die erste Szene in der Nick in die Organisation kommt und der Schwenk durch die Halle gemacht wird, erinnert auch sehr stark an Men in Black. Die ganze Zeit über bekomme ich einfach das Gefühl nicht los, eben das alles schon einmal (in besser), bei einem anderen Film gesehen zu haben. Ein letzter Punkt ist die Tatsache, dass der Film von vorne bis hinten durchschaubar ist. So wusste ich nach der Ablehnung von Nick, in Sachen Illegalem, dass die Story sich genau um diese Tatsache Drehen wird.