Review of Ghost Rider (2007) by Everett J — 20 Apr 2012
Growing up, I read a lot of comics. Mostly Marvel(DC just kinda sucks compared to Marvel), but I never really read "Ghost Rider" much. I knew of it, and had read one or two, but really never cared much for the character.
But anytime a Marvel movie comes out, I gotta watch it. I watched this in the theater the weekend it came out, and thought it was horrible. Revisiting it 5 years later, it is still bad. The effects are OK.
Some are cheesy as hell, some are neat, but nothing really special to write home about. The story is kind of lame too. A young stunt driver(Johnny Blaze, played by Nicolas Cage), sells his soul to the devil to save his father from cancer.
The devil cures the cancer, but kills his father anyway and then uses Blaze as his bounty hunter. By day he is a famous stunt driver, but by night he becomes the Ghost Rider, a daredevil,motorcycle riding demon with a skull head that is on fire.
He fights evil(even though he is suppose to work for the devil) and he tries to win back his long lost love(Eva Mendes). The acting is bad, Cage is his usually hammy self, and Mendes is just a pretty face.
This sits next to "Elektra" as one of the worst Marvel movies, and makes me glad I passed on the comic.
This review of Ghost Rider (2007) was written by Everett J on 20 Apr 2012.
Ghost Rider has generally received mixed reviews.
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