SPLICED MOVIES /
REVIEW / R.I.P.D.
ISSUE 01
selves, Roy is a vivacious drop-deadgorgeous model, played by real life
Sports Illustrated model Marisa
Miller and Nick is a floundering
senior citizen, played by legendary
James Hong (Big Trouble in Little
China). They make for quite an
incongruous pair, and the fights
that Roy and Nick have in front of
everyday people inject some much
needed comedy into the film.
A series of nonsensical scenes
unfold and we find out that the
Deados are after the Staff of Jericho,
an ancient and mystical artefact,
which will allow the dead to walk the
earth forever thus bringing about the
end of life on earth as we know it.
Pretty high stakes huh? Let’s not even
get into the nonexistent love story
between Walker and his recently
widowed wife; we simply never get
enough of the couple on screen at
the same time to care about their
relationship. The same can be said
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“... Men in Black did it
better, and Ghostbusters
did it funnier and classier.”