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Ryan Reynolds’ Worst-Reviewed Movie Is A Prime Video Hit 12 Years Later

Ryan Reynolds is distraught and dead like Nick Walker in Ripd

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When “National Lampoon’s Van Wilder” surprised its distributor, craftsman Entertainment, by collecting $ 38 million worldwide over a budget of $ 5 million in 2002, the film industry had no choice but to sit down and examine why this Adodée sexual comedy exceeded the more understood studio offers as “Slackers”, “Sorority Boys Harvard “. All in all, it is a ugly film, but the director of casting Barbara Fiorentino undoubtedly struck the gold by the director of gifts Walt Becker, who would continue to make films even lous, with actors also initiated like Kal Penn, Simon Helberg and Ryan Reynolds.

As a title character, Reynolds worked a miracle more than Minor coming as a Chase Bill Murray-Chevy hybrid. He was casual like hell, but released a sex appeal that escaped Chase in his first match “Saturday Night Live”. Reynolds was so charismatic that you wanted to laugh at all of his statements, but the script and the direction of Becker hampered him with each turn.

Reynolds quickly started reserving main roles, but it took him a while to find the star vehicle that would propel him to list A where he belonged. I was worried for a second that he’d be submarined by poor management when he toplined the atrocious, amateurish “waiting …” (which does have its defenders, soehow), but the one-two 2009 punch of greg mottola’s cult-classic indie “Adventureland” (One of the best films in Reynolds) and the satisfactory romantic comedy of Anne Fletcher “The proposal” did the trick. Type of. While he appeared in great successes after “The proposal”, Ryan Reynolds would not go full -fledged to “Deadpool” in 2016. And it is a testimony of his high -voltage star power that he was able to survive with completely awful event films. It is even more impressive that, 12 years after singing in theaters, one of these films is currently one of the most popular films on Prime Video.

People watch Ripd for any reason

Jeff Bridges as Roy Pulsipher and Ryan Reynolds while Nick Walker draws on the dead in Ripd

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Based on the comic strip “Rest in Peace Department” by Peter Mr. Lenkov and Lucas Marangon, “Ripd” by Robert Schwentke had a lot on paper. It was a “men in black” riff who associated Reynolds with the great Jeff Bridges. The distribution of support (which included Mary-Louise Parker, Kevin Bacon and James Hong) was impressive, while the budget of $ 150 million promised a breathtaking spectacle.

“RIPD” is the worst type of big budget flop. It is a formula and no inspiration. There was probably a fun film to make on the cops of the beyond which must find the exhaled perps who travel the earth after having escaped the eternal judgment, but, sorry Patrick, that is not that. I saw the film during a projection of all the media in 2013, and I do not remember a single second. Nothing stuck. This is probably why it is the worst film by Reynolds according to Rotten Tomatoes (where he currently has a rotten note of 13%).

It makes him ideal for a distracted vision, I suppose. You can throw “RIPD” in the background, and each time you are looking for your phone, something that costs universal images, a lot of money will happen. Whatever the spiritual vacuum which, let’s say, read “Frankenstein; or the modern Prometheus” of Mary Shelley could at the very least be necessary. You will testify to great gesticing actors in the middle of a flood of those and zeros, and for a while you will feel what passes for a fear at a time of emptiness. And you could just understand Why Reynolds took a successful break After bombing.