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Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance
Upon first hearing that Ghost Rider will be getting a sequel my immediate response was...why? The first film most was far from a good film and I for one assumed Marvel would pretend it never happened...apparently not.
The directors of Crank take the directors chair (or chairs) for this film to give us an adrenaline filled wreck, it's pretty much Crank meets Ghost Rider, and it is so bad it's funny.
Nicolas Cage is back as Johnny Blaze (he is noticeably the only actor to return from the first film) and is joined by Idris Elba (probably the best thing about the film), an alcoholic French priest.
The villain (excluding the Devil) is played by some strange Kurt Russell look alike with a very similar power to Wes Bentley in the previous film. He jumps around corroding people with a cheap iMovie special effect for almost no reason at all...though I have to admit there is a twinkie joke that made me laugh.
What's good about the film you say? The first 30 minutes are actually kinda likeable, the look of Ghost Rider has been improved greatly, he's covered in CGI tar and I always get a rush of adrenaline rush when he bursts people into flame. After a very impressive action scene involving a flaming crane however the movie plummets downhill. Johnny Blaze is required to escort the son of the Devil to a church somewhere and the film (very poorly) attempts to make a fathery-son relationship between Blaze and the boy, but it seems forced and odd (also very similar to the relationship in T2) and even the film gets bored and inserts a strange CGI piss scene to try to keep the audience entertained...I know.
Overall even though they finally made Ghost Rider look kinda cool and added more action and less cheesy story the film falls into the fire. The movie fails to make you care about it's characters and even insults you with it's horrible dialogue at points. Although...It's pretty funny when the Devil uses a paper mache' flamethrower metaphor to explain being Satan to a kid.
Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance
Upon first hearing that Ghost Rider will be getting a sequel my immediate response was...why? The first film most was far from a good film and I for one assumed Marvel would pretend it never happened...apparently not.
The directors of Crank take the directors chair (or chairs) for this film to give us an adrenaline filled wreck, it's pretty much Crank meets Ghost Rider, and it is so bad it's funny.
Nicolas Cage is back as Johnny Blaze (he is noticeably the only actor to return from the first film) and is joined by Idris Elba (probably the best thing about the film), an alcoholic French priest.
The villain (excluding the Devil) is played by some strange Kurt Russell look alike with a very similar power to Wes Bentley in the previous film. He jumps around corroding people with a cheap iMovie special effect for almost no reason at all...though I have to admit there is a twinkie joke that made me laugh.
What's good about the film you say? The first 30 minutes are actually kinda likeable, the look of Ghost Rider has been improved greatly, he's covered in CGI tar and I always get a rush of adrenaline rush when he bursts people into flame. After a very impressive action scene involving a flaming crane however the movie plummets downhill. Johnny Blaze is required to escort the son of the Devil to a church somewhere and the film (very poorly) attempts to make a fathery-son relationship between Blaze and the boy, but it seems forced and odd (also very similar to the relationship in T2) and even the film gets bored and inserts a strange CGI piss scene to try to keep the audience entertained...I know.
Overall even though they finally made Ghost Rider look kinda cool and added more action and less cheesy story the film falls into the fire. The movie fails to make you care about it's characters and even insults you with it's horrible dialogue at points. Although...It's pretty funny when the Devil uses a paper mache' flamethrower metaphor to explain being Satan to a kid.