The R.I.P.D. isn't the Rhode Island police department

After the main character dies, the story begins.

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This is one of those movies where a lot of the stuff that's in the trailer doesn't happen in the actual movie, which is really annoying but it still held up as a really lively and exciting film, even though it was about dead people. The topic was quite creative, of course it was based off of a comic book series, (which I don't think was very popular, but I could be wrong) so the director didn't really create it. There were lots of funny little jokes that were in the background of the central plot, but they never distracted anyone from what was going on. This Action Sci-Fi comedy was about a police officer who died, but instead of being put through judgement, he was recruited for the R.I.P.D. (Rest In Peace Department). Because of that, he was going to serve his afterlife capturing dead (and evil) people who escaped judgement and were disguised as living people. Some of the key facts about the R.I.P.D. officers, and their enemies, were really senseless but never hard to understand, but that was because, of course, there was no way to possibly understand them in the first place. Still, the ones that did make sense were really funny, like the fact that the officers  passage to earth was through a VCR fixing shop. At first, it was hard to understand why that was a place they could teleport to without being noticed, but then everyone in the audience probably asked themselves when was the last time they had to get a VCR fixed, or even owned one at all. A-

This isn't Red Dawn, There's only one Wolverine

The X-men movies are some of marvel's greatest achievements, so I was very glad to see their most 

famous character return for a movie that couldn't possibly be worse than X-men origins: wolverine.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  

The Wolverine was a great way to show that the X-men weren't gone forever even after the worst marvel movie ever (X-men origins: Wolverine) This one was a sequel to X-men: The last stand, which was OK, but Brian Singer was better at directing the first two, than Brett Ratner was at making the third. This Wolverine move was showing an entirely independent Logan, who used to be known as the Wolverine during his time working with the X-men. He was haunted by the fact that in X-men: the last stand, SPOILER ALERT! he killed Jean Grey.

     This movie involved a story similar to many of his comic and cartoon stories where he goes to Japan, and encounters the Silver Samurai. If you aren't looking for a superhero movie, this can still be good for you because It shows a version of Wolverine where he isn't saving the world or wearing spandex (actually, he only did that in the comics). If you're a huge comic nerd (like me), you can also see this, because it has the most amazing post credits scene ever! (Here's a life lesson: never leave the theater during the credits of a movie produced by marvel, because you can always count on another scene afterwards, no matter what.There were a few big holes in the story, but still not nearly as many as the Dark Knight Rises. I also have to mention that it's perfect for anyone who is ever planning to go to Japan, because it has even more famous pieces of japanese culture than Lost in Translation. Too bad it didn't come out a few months earlier, because I went to Japan this year. This is a movie that you shouldn't miss, as long as you can survive an ending that makes no sense at all. A-