A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him. Based on the comic by Peter M. Lenkov.
A half-hour into the film, and it feels like the eighth day of jury duty.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
19 Jul 2013
rotten:
Mr. Bridges is almost always fun to watch, but even his squinting and Slim Pickens-style whooping can't make the time pass faster.
– Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
21 Jul 2013
rotten:
Too bad director Robert Schwentke ("RED") and the writing team handling the 3-D screen adaptation don't hold up their end, failing to do much with a premise that felt like it could rate with, say, "Men in Black."
– Tom Russo,
Boston Globe,
21 Jul 2013
fresh:
This spends little time on exposition and doesn't go in for any false pathos; compared with most recent comic-book movies, this is lean, unpretentious filmmaking--and to my taste, a lot more fun for it.
– Ben Sachs,
Chicago Reader,
25 Jul 2013
rotten:
I watched this movie with three chatty strangers on [a] Thursday night in an otherwise empty theater. Universal couldn't say "no." Looks like that's our job now.