Ghost Rider defeats each of them with practically no effort at all, so what was even the point?!? And GR himself has very little screen time at all for a film that's supposed to be about him. Speaking of the bad guys, they are all - without exception - really lame. Wes Bentley is a joke as the satanic goth/emo badboy, Blackheart about as scary as one of those bored guys who jumps out at you inside those corn maze things that pop up every Halloween. Sam Elliot is easily the best actor in this thing, bringing genuine gravitas to his role as Carter Slade, the original Wild West-era Ghost Rider, but he's criminally under-used his character popping up only occasionally to give cryptic advice to Blaze about what he has become and what's expected of him. Instead, he shows up and you go "Ooooh! It's the guy from EASY RIDER playing the Devil! Cool!" and then he's gone. Peter Fonda is a motion picture icon and his involvement is a nice tip of the hat to acknowledge his iconic rebel/biker movie career, but he's wasted in a part that could (and should) have been meatier and more involving. Eva Mendez as Blaze's love interest is undeniable as eye candy but has all the emotional depth and dramatic acting skills of, say, Shemp Howard. Magoo), overacts like a spider monkey on crack chewing more scenery than the shark in JAWS. Nick Cage, (easily 10-15 years too old at this point, sporting a ridiculous-looking hairpiece that wouldn't even fool Mr. The majority of the actors are either wrongly cast, totally worthless or completely wasted. (For Pete's sake, why not just keep the scope of the movie small and use issue #68 of the original comic as a roadmap for the film? Sheesh.) The acting is all over the map here, but most of it is just yuck. ![]() THOUGHTS: Instead of sticking to the classic origin of Johnny Blaze, writer/director Mark Johnson changes enough stuff to basically eff it all up. A marginal 3 STARS, and frankly that’s being overly generous. For undiscriminating comic fans only (and devil worshipers in need of a good laugh). You may be more forgiving, however this film was barely watchable for me and then ONLY because of the bits with the Ghost Rider himself. The only good thing about this film is that at least it isn't as bad as the brain-dead sequel, but that's hardly something to stand up and cheer about. ![]() Huh?!? Not funny, not quirky, just STUPID. Stupid WTF crap like Blaze eating jellybeans from a brandy snifter. Most everything that made Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider so cool & iconic in the first place is jettisoned and instead we get a wrong-headed attempt at a lighter tone for a film about one of comics' darkest, most tortured anti-heroes. Too bad the film itself is such a "close but no cigar" effort. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy notice.īOTTOM LINE: Okay, so it WAS cool to finally see one of my comicbook faves on the big screen. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Click "Decline" to reject, or "Customise" to make more detailed advertising choices, or learn more. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() ![]() Cookies store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. Your choice applies to using first-party and third-party advertising cookies on this service. If you agree, we'll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie notice.
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