Ghost Rider
| Year: | 2007 |
| Studio: | Columbia |
| Director: | Mark Steven Johnson |
| Producer: | Avi Arad/Michael De Luca |
| Writer: | Mark Steven Johnson |
| Cast: | Nicolas Cage, Eva Medes, Sam Elliott, Peter Fonda, Wes Bentley |
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaawn.
Another year, another comic book movie, each one lamer than the last, with a name actor who comes out saying they loved reading the comic book as a kid and a director who craps on about bringing something fresh to the genre and everybody over-using the word 'dark'.
The Marvel motion graphic at the beginning is starting to be the mark of doom for these increasingly turgid films. This time Nicolas Cage is a motorcycle stunt driver who sells his soul to the devil to be invincible. When the devil comes to collect he turns into a demon-thingy whose head turns into a flaming skull at night and whose motorcycle turns into a thing of steel and chains. That's the visual gimmick. But underneath he's the same vigilante template as Batman and a million others.
As over-designed and under scripted as expected, and another wide misfire in Cage's career after the critical and box office kerthunk of The Wicker Man.
Another year, another comic book movie, each one lamer than the last, with a name actor who comes out saying they loved reading the comic book as a kid and a director who craps on about bringing something fresh to the genre and everybody over-using the word 'dark'.
The Marvel motion graphic at the beginning is starting to be the mark of doom for these increasingly turgid films. This time Nicolas Cage is a motorcycle stunt driver who sells his soul to the devil to be invincible. When the devil comes to collect he turns into a demon-thingy whose head turns into a flaming skull at night and whose motorcycle turns into a thing of steel and chains. That's the visual gimmick. But underneath he's the same vigilante template as Batman and a million others.
As over-designed and under scripted as expected, and another wide misfire in Cage's career after the critical and box office kerthunk of The Wicker Man.