Any movie featuring voiceover from the great **Sam Elliott** can’t be all bad.
Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, I’m sad to report that while the new **Marvel Comics** adaptation ***Ghost Rider*** isn’t totally awful, it sure ain’t all that good, either. This movie is about as close to a complete waste of time as anything I’ve seen so far this year, it’s only saving grace a few moments of rather hysterical levity and that gravely Texas twang of the aforementioned Elliott.
Story:
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Johnny Blaze(Nicolas Cage)** is a famous **motorcycle stuntman** with a flair for the dangerously spectacular who has managed to escape death time and time again during his bruising career. Luck? No, not really. He’s got a gift, a charmed life that makes one wonder if the guy has an angel looking over his shoulder protecting him from harm.
Make that a devil, ***the* Devil**, actually, the superstar athlete making a deal with **Mephistopheles(Peter Fonda)** as a youth in order to keep his **cancer-riddled** **father** from suffering the ravages of the disease. Now, under the cover of darkness and when evil is near, Blaze becomes the Ghost Rider, a fiery skeletal bounty hunter charged with returning escaped souls back to the furnaces of Hell.
Things get ugly when **Blackheart(Wes Bentley), ** Mephistopheles’ greedy son, rises out of the bowels of the Earth with plans to tear the souls of all humanity apart. Now, with the aid of a **mysterious gravedigger** **(Elliott)** and with the life of his ladylove **Roxanne(Eva Mendes)** in the balance, Blaze must take control of the demon inside of him and become the human race’s hellfire champion. It’s almost too much to ask of a man, but even though his soul is lost his heart remains true making this Ghost Rider far from just another minion doing the Devil’s bidding.
Stats:*
At just over **100 minutes, ** *Ghost Rider* is an agonizingly inert fantasy action adventure without the first idea of what it is. It’s too silly to be taken seriously and far too serious to be taken as camp.
Thankfully, any movie with Nicolas Cage can be guaranteed to have at least one moment of whacked-out lunacy coming completely out of left field. Thankfully, this movie has two. Blaze’s first moments waking up after his initial night as Ghost Rider are relatively hysterical, while a scene a few beats later of the character in front of a mirror are a total hoot. They’re the moments you remember long after the picture ends, the only true bits of inspiration, both courtesy of a brilliant actor capable of so much more than this.
The movie will be liked by those who like to see some serious HARDCORE action [especially the youngsters will enjoy the most].but except thr’s nothing in store for ne1.
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