10 More Movie Reveals You Can Spot Early If You Really Look
5. Kevin Bacon Was Dead The Entire Time - R.I.P.D.
The Reveal
Though R.I.P.D. came and went without making much of a dent, it did boast one genuinely surprising twist.
The plot is set in motion when cop protagonist Nick Walker (Ryan Reynolds) is murdered by corrupt fellow officer Bobby Hayes (Kevin Bacon), and while it's not terribly surprising that Hayes is revealed to be in league with the "Deados" - the human spirits who refuse to move onto the afterlife - there is a more surprising twist lying in wait.
It's eventually revealed that Hayes is actually a Deado himself, having been killed by a junkie on a prior mission.
How To Spot It Early
This is laid out with hilarious obviousness in retrospect - during the opening raid in which Hayes kills Walker, the cops are all lined up outside the building, and only Hayes isn't wearing a bulletproof vest.
Why? Because he's dead, of course, and doesn't actually need one.