Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Mary-Louise Parker
The Rest In Peace Department has gone digital, but the bugs are literally deadly. R.I.P.D. 3: Soul Protocol explodes onto the screen, reuniting the afterlife’s most dysfunctional law enforcement duo for their most volatile mission yet. Nick Walker (Ryan Reynolds) and Roy Pulsipher (Jeff Bridges) are back on the beat, but the cosmic bureaucracy has undergone a “System Update” that nobody asked for.
Ryan Reynolds brings his signature rapid-fire wit and modern cynicism back to the streets of the living, clashing perfectly with Jeff Bridges’ grumbling, spit-bucket cowboy grit. However, the game has changed. A terrifying new syndicate of “Deados” known as The Null Set has discovered a way to hack the afterlife’s mainframe. By rewriting the cosmic code, these monsters can erase their criminal files, render themselves invisible to R.I.P.D. scanners, and smuggle souls back to Earth without judgment.
The chaos hits a boiling point when the iron-fisted Proctor (Mary-Louise Parker) is framed for high treason and erased from the system. Suspecting a mole at the very top of management, Nick and Roy are forced to go rogue. Stripped of their badges, their “Gold” weapons, and their backup, they are fugitives in both the mortal world and the afterlife. The stakes have never been higher: one wrong move doesn’t just mean death; it means “Final Death”—total erasure from existence, with no heaven, no hell, and no backup saves.
To make matters worse, their unauthorized status causes their standard-issue avatars to malfunction. In a running gag of humiliating proportions, Nick and Roy’s disguises glitch uncontrollably in the mortal world—cycling mid-chase from a K-Pop boyband member and a golden retriever to a grumpy nun and a heavy metal drummer.
Packed with spectral shootouts, shapeshifting monstrosities, and a plot that threatens to merge the architecture of Hell with the servers of Earth, R.I.P.D. 3 is a high-octane supernatural joyride. It proves that while dying is easy, it’s the unauthorized paperwork that will really kill you.