Tag Line:
Long ago he made a deal to save someone he loved.
The Plot in a Nut Shell:
Nic Cage is the Johnny Blaze a modern day Evel Knievel, By night he is the rip roaring spirit of vengeance known as the Ghost Rider.
Long ago he made a deal to save someone he loved.
The Plot in a Nut Shell:
Nic Cage is the Johnny Blaze a modern day Evel Knievel, By night he is the rip roaring spirit of vengeance known as the Ghost Rider.
So we are blessed with another Marvel comic adaptation. Nic Cage plays a stunt motorcyclist that sold his soul when he was a teenager to the Devil to help save his father who was dying of cancer. The contract sealed in blood, he is now the right hand man to the dark prince who calls upon him when needed.
Eva Mendes plays the eye totty and the long lost love Mr Cage had to leave behind after signing the contract.
The plot from what I could make out is all to do with some other contract that was signed decades before that the Ghost Rider of the time (Sam Elliot) nicked and hid from the devil to stop something or other from happening.
Ok first off this film is probably the biggest pile of poopy I’ve seen in a very long time and I don’t say that lightly. Even as a total pop corn, disengage brain type flick, I still caught myself checking I still had a pulse through out.
It wasn’t even in the sense of being so bad it actually made it good. Coup and I even failed to find anything we could take the piss out of as we watched it.
Eva Mendes plays the eye totty and the long lost love Mr Cage had to leave behind after signing the contract.
The plot from what I could make out is all to do with some other contract that was signed decades before that the Ghost Rider of the time (Sam Elliot) nicked and hid from the devil to stop something or other from happening.
Ok first off this film is probably the biggest pile of poopy I’ve seen in a very long time and I don’t say that lightly. Even as a total pop corn, disengage brain type flick, I still caught myself checking I still had a pulse through out.
It wasn’t even in the sense of being so bad it actually made it good. Coup and I even failed to find anything we could take the piss out of as we watched it.
Mr Cage really does need a good slap from someone and needs to be told he is not fucking Elvis Presley. Every other shot he was trying to do the patented Elvis pointing pose and everytime he did I was just waiting for the “Thank you, thank you very much” line.
A CGI fest from start to finish, you can’t help but think the SFX peeps were too busy spanking their monkeys with all the cool things they were doing that the script they were working from was probably turned into some attractive party hats or paper airplanes.
Peter Fonda also stars in this film as the Devil and he hams it up to no end. His version of Mephistopheles is probably the campest, boarding on all out gay you’ll ever see. A few times when he’s chatting with Mr Cage, I found myself wondering when he was going to break into song, kick out his heels whilst spinning his cane with a wonderful rendition of “Signing in the Rain or “My Way”.
The film was that bad I don’t even recall seeing Stan Lee in his compulsory cameo but then again I may of missed it when I was on the hunt for beer or crisps.
There were a lot of things that didn’t sit right with me and trust me when I say at this point I really was trying not to take it seriously at all.
The Ghost Rider protects the innocent and only kills those that are evil but I really couldn’t help but wonder how many innocent people he wiped out with the massive property damage he inflected just by riding down the street when he took his S&M looking Motorcycle Hog from Hell for a spin.
It made the footage from the Gulf wars of the yanks bombing Iraq look like something out of Bambi.
A CGI fest from start to finish, you can’t help but think the SFX peeps were too busy spanking their monkeys with all the cool things they were doing that the script they were working from was probably turned into some attractive party hats or paper airplanes.
Peter Fonda also stars in this film as the Devil and he hams it up to no end. His version of Mephistopheles is probably the campest, boarding on all out gay you’ll ever see. A few times when he’s chatting with Mr Cage, I found myself wondering when he was going to break into song, kick out his heels whilst spinning his cane with a wonderful rendition of “Signing in the Rain or “My Way”.
The film was that bad I don’t even recall seeing Stan Lee in his compulsory cameo but then again I may of missed it when I was on the hunt for beer or crisps.
There were a lot of things that didn’t sit right with me and trust me when I say at this point I really was trying not to take it seriously at all.
The Ghost Rider protects the innocent and only kills those that are evil but I really couldn’t help but wonder how many innocent people he wiped out with the massive property damage he inflected just by riding down the street when he took his S&M looking Motorcycle Hog from Hell for a spin.
It made the footage from the Gulf wars of the yanks bombing Iraq look like something out of Bambi.
This is a bad film sorry to say it, but when the hair piece out acts the leading actors head its sat on I was really glad I hadn’t paid to see it.
Man of the Match:
Goes to Sam Elliot just for being one of the coolest men to walk the earth and I’m completely bewildered as to how they got him to star in this film. All I can say is that Shakedown (aka Blue Jean Cop) is forgiven.
What Have We Learned:
Well Hollywood insists on keeping throwing money at Nic Cage to star in films. Maybe they’re hoping one day he’ll do something as good as Raising Arizona.
Man of the Match:
Goes to Sam Elliot just for being one of the coolest men to walk the earth and I’m completely bewildered as to how they got him to star in this film. All I can say is that Shakedown (aka Blue Jean Cop) is forgiven.
What Have We Learned:
Well Hollywood insists on keeping throwing money at Nic Cage to star in films. Maybe they’re hoping one day he’ll do something as good as Raising Arizona.
Eva Mendes has great cleavage.
Looks like Mark Steven Johnson’s excellent Dare Devil (compared to Ghost Rider it is) was a complete one off.
Looks like Mark Steven Johnson’s excellent Dare Devil (compared to Ghost Rider it is) was a complete one off.
It's movie making paint by numbers stuff.
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1 comment:
I have to agree with you on this one. Quite possibly the mose arse numbingly bad movie I've seen and I've seen many a stinker in my time.
This film stinks more than an equatorial glass domed fish filleting factory in August.
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