Screen_Blitz The hardest thing to accomplish in sitting through this sequel to the 2007 original Ghost Rider is finding one moment that is even remotely engaging without feeling the aggressive urge to doze off and snore. When did a fiery-skulled hero burning through the road on his motorcycle and thrashing the bad guys with his sizzling hot chain stop becoming fun? This movie, replacing the original director Mark Steven Johnson with Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, is a soulless rote that not only makes the unfavorable feat of taking Nicolas Cage and sucking him dry of his charisma, but plunges below the level of its predecessor in more ways than one. The previous film was significantly forgettable, but it shined a few moments of excitement and awe. This film, which continues closely to where the last film left off, is so dry of adrenaline and energy it leaves you questioning of whether the directors had a clue of what they were trying to achieve. For Ghost Rider, a Marvel comics superhero who's reputation is widely overshadowed by the overwhelming popularity of heroes such as Spiderman, Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, and the X-Men team; the movie gives no reasons to believe the hero has a solid future in the celluloid. Nicolas Cage returns as Johnny Blaze, a road-raging motorcyclist who made a deal with the devil that granted him the power to morph into a skeleton with a skull engulfed in flames and wield his metal chain against the baddies. Blaze is appointed by gun-toting priest Moreau (played by Idris Alba) to go after a woman named Nadya (played by Violante Placido) and her young son Danny (played by Fergus Riordan) and protect them from the demon Roarke (played by Ciaran Hinds) who threatens to take on the human form of young Danny and rob him of his soul. It is wildly disconcerting see how dull and empty of adrenaline this film, especially with the directors of the 'Crank' series and the action-packed, yet creatively bankrupt 'Gamer'. Whereas the aforementioned flicks are driven with nearly non-stop action and gun-blazing left and right, this film feels awfully relaxed placid with its action set pieces, while the filmmakers dominate the scenery with demonic supernatural imagery that has been done better in far more superior flicks of the fantasy and horror genre. Whenever there is no action going on, it rushes with its storytelling without giving us a chance to even get engaged with the plot or the characters. When the action is happening, it's dull and lacking of nearly sense of fun. Just when we are getting pumped up with Nicolas Cage morphing into the fiery, chain-wielding monster, the frenzy is greatly diminished by the inconsistent CGI and needlessly frantic camera-work. And it most certainly does not help that Cage is sleepwalking through the role, while Idris Alba is running near empty on charisma. It's as if both of the actors are disinterest in committing themselves to the roles. Well, hey! With a script as lackluster and empty of enchanting the nature of the eponymous hero, who can blame them? Though one give them the directors points for saving the final twenty minutes with an intense, frenetic action fight sequence between the the titular hero and the villain Roarke, it is hard, in the end, to think of a valuable reason why the story should continue. Could they have done justice by handing over the rights to Marvel comics? Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is a dull continuation to the eponymous hero, lacking of palpable adrenaline and shallow of energy to compensate for its lackluster script. The film does no justice for the comic book hero, it only piles up on the abuse the superhero has endured in the celluloid. As for Nicolas Cage, retiring from the role is probably a wholesome choice for his career.

boblipton I had some time to kill this morning and there was nothing on the DVR, so I decided to see this movie, a sequel to the one that demonstrated that Nicholas Cage's performance can be improved by replacing his head with a flaming skull. Who says that CGI is worthless?In this one, Nick plays the scenes with his own face like an alky who has just woken with the shakes, because he has regrets over being a monster. Violante Placido plays the unmentionable love interest. She was raped by the Devil and gave birth to his son because you know what schmucks male-dominated governments are. They won't let you get an abortion even when you've been raped by the Devil, even though that happens all the time; plus Mother Love and an enormous rack. Idris Elba plays a monk with a Russian accent. Did he get rejected for the role of Rasputin by some racist producer and he's going to show them?Anyway, the story, such as it is, involves a lot of CGI fighting and fire and Miss Placido crawling on the ground so that her breasts hang down and look even larger. Apparently this was too difficult for one director, so they used two, but to make up for that, they only get one name each.I forgive Mr. Elba, because he is a British actor, and they don't turn down work. I suspect he shot his role when it turned out he had a week before playing Puss in Boots in a Christmas panto. Besides, he has since appeared in another LUTHER.

vibespidersstudios The first of Ghost Rider is alright but it still lost its touch on the script writing. However this film is suppose to be a re-vamped version of the film because that how i got the impression from this film because the cgi is very disgusting it makes me want to vomit every time I see the cgi because it was so god awful. I have to sit there in my seat just waiting for something interesting to happen. But like the first film, this film flawed even worst because the all the acts were really boring out of my mind that this film drain the life out of me. This movie is very sad because it never make any logical sense. And that phone call between with the devil. That method of filming is the worst because the film just feels like an awful old school editing film that it was edited by iMovie once and never checked to see after a few times that the film is actually boring.

boris_kolarov I can't say I enjoyed the 2007 Ghost Rider film. It wasn't the worst, but it wasn't good - it was mediocre. Despite seeing lots of negative reviews about Ghost Rider 2 I still decided to check it out. And I kinda liked it. First I am going to write the things I like about Ghost Rider 2. Note that I have read none Ghost Rider comics.1)Nicolas Cage's acting had some very funny bits.2)The Ghost Rider looks better.3)The action was great.4)There were some very funny moments.5)Moreau was a great character6)Ghost Rider defeating the main antagonist was goofy and funny!Now let's see what I didn't liked about the film.1)The acting at times.2)The film is sequel, though Ghost Rider's origin story was different like the writers or the directors haven't seen the first one.3)The main antagonist wasn't cool.4)The first moment with Ghost Rider feels like the makers needed to make the film longer so they put plenty unnecessary moments.5)At times the writing was bad.6)When Roarke give Ray Carrigan super powers things start to make no sense and this isn't explained.7)Ray Carrigan's death is a bit disappointing. At least Roarke's defeat was funny!8)The plot was weak at times.Overall the film is kinda a guilty pleasure for me. I felt it was more entertaining than the first one, though I feel that more effort was put into the first one. Overall I give Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance from Bad 1 to Excellent 6 GOOD 3.75, which is GOOD 4 but not quite. I wasn't paid to enjoy the film, I just had fun with it.