Their avatars are a pair of nicely turned out African-American women ( Rachel Adedeji and Evlyne Oyedokun). Our team cannot appear as themselves to mortal man or woman. He’s rounding up legions of “deados” as minions and talking “New World Order.”Ī cute touch. Some hapless gold miner ( Richard Brake) has dug a tad too deep in Utah, where Hell is uncomfortably close to the surface (we guessed as much). His partner? She’s a Medieval Frenchwoman named Jean ( Penelope Mitchell) who is handy with a sword and knows her Bible. But after heavenly processing, he’s sent back as a member of the Rest in Peace Police Dept. Sheriff Roy (Donovan) is murdered in the line of duty, just as his daughter’s about to marry.
It was a low point on the resumes of all involved.īut the accountants at Universal saw “intellectual property” where others only noticed the red ink, and decided to revisit the comic book they own the rights to for a straight-up Western from Hell sequel. The mind-bogglingly dumb original 2013 film threw Oscar winner Jeff Bridges, Canadian national treasure Ryan Reynolds, Mary Louise Parker and Kevin Bacon at this concept, pairing up an Old West lawman (Bridges) with a modern dead cop (Reynolds) in modern day Boston. It’s a sequel nobody wanted, another outing with heavenly law enforcement officers commissioned to deal with the undead as their lot in the afterlife. Don’t embarrass yourself by looking bored or annoyed at being here.Īnd “Burn Notice” veteran Jeffrey Donovan, as the only real “name” in the cast of “R.I.P.D. The actor’s first duty in a movie that is plainly nobody’s idea of a “good choice” is to not let us know it’s her or his “only choice” or offer at the moment.
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