RIPD 2 is what you get when you complain about Ryan Reynolds doing the same old schtick in all his movies and then they release an unexpected and unwanted sequel to one of his most forgettable movies that really needed that schtick. But saying this movie is bad because it doesn’t have the personality of a 1-2 punch of Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges ignores just about everything else that could possibly go wrong with a movie.

RIPD 2 is, I guess, a prequel to the original film… but since these are based on an existing IP and have nothing to do with one another, I suppose it could also be a reboot. It’s set in the Old West and follows a lawman who gets shot dead only to come back as part of the Rest in Peace Department of Heavenly law enforcement officers. Something something demons and we have a movie, if not much of a script.

Yeah, this movie does just about nothing right. It has cheap Western sets and generic costumes, middling visual effects, bad action scenes, and characters that makes you wish Jeff Bridges was here for the paycheck. The biggest problem are the heroes and their total lack of charisma or humor… despite their middling efforts to be funny. Or exciting. Or anything that’ll wake you up from a cozy drowse.

RIPD 2 was unnecessary and it’s shocking that it’s released by Universal, an actual movie studio. Given the flick not only launched directly on streaming services for real live money AND “free” on Netflix, I’m not sure Universal had a lot of faith in this thing. They should probably have just locked in ta drawer somewhere and written off the loss.

Yeah, no reason to waste your time on this. If you are a super fan of RIPD (*snort*) or even have a vague memory it was ever released, this movie isn’t worth your time. Bad on all levels, it’s rightly been dumped into the memory hole of streaming rentals. Better forget it faster than you did the first film.

Score: 57