Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)

The Worst Film Ever

Perfect cast and a good story

hyped garbage

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

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.

I wanted to like the first Ghost Rider movie I really did but when you've got Mark Steven Johnson directing there isn't much you can do to save the film. When I found out he wasn't directing the sequel I thought that maybe the sequel would be okay, I was wrong. This movie much like Batman and Robin is a guideline for what not to do when making a comic book movie. There was a time when Nicholas Cage giving an over the top performance was entertaining as hell but in this film it just tiresome, and he's still one of the better actor in this God awful movie because he at least knows how to act he might not do it well but he knows how to. These other actors, no disrespect to them as people, don't seem to know what they are doing especially that annoying kid. The CGI in this is sort of hard to look at, I mean how do you have a budget this big and still make such terrible effects, did they use up all the money on the Ghost Rider's skull which I admit does look kind of cool. My biggest complaint in this movie full of things to complain about is the forced comedy like that joke about the flamethrower. I know they were trying to make the film more lighthearted but they should of just embraced the darkness of the Ghost Rider source material. This is easily not just one of the worst comic book movies I've ever seen but also just one of the worst films I've ever seen and with all the crap I've seen that's saying something. My advice to anyone who's thinking about watching this, don't.

although this is the second film in the Ghost Rider series,it's not a sequel per SE.it's a standalone film,and in that regard I found it to be very entertaining.you don't have to see the first one to know what's going on.Nic age returns of course,as the title character.he does a good job again,no surprise.the supporting players are all very good as well.on a side note,i thought the special were not as well done as in the first film,but that's just me.anyway back to the supporting cast.Violante Placido(probably most recently known from the Transporter TV series)plays the female lead/sort of romantic interest, acquits herself quite well,stealing most of the scenes she is in.Idris Elba(Star Trek Beyonnd and the upcoming Thor: Ragnarök)lends strong support here,as well.Johnny Whitworth (the TV series The 100 and the TV series Blindspot)is the comic relief and I found him very funny.Ciarán Hinds plays the main villain to good effect.Fergus Riordan plays Danny.i hope they will make a third film down the road.for me aside from the Dodgy special effects-(a minor complaint) I liked this film.for me,Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is an 8/10

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.