Ghost Rider (2007)
Genres : Action/Adventure, Suspense/Horror, Thriller and Adaptation
Tagline : His Curse Will Become His Power
Release Date : February 16th, 2007 (wide)
MPAA Rating : PG-13 for horror violence and disturbing images.
Runtime : USA:114 min
Country : USA
Language : English
Color : Color
Trivia :Jon Voight was attached to the project at one point but dropped out.
Nicolas Cage had to have his Ghost Rider tattoo covered with make-up in order to play Johnny Blaze (Ghost Rider).
Description : A motorcycle stuntman, Johnny Blaze, makes a pact with a dark force, selling his soul to save his girlfriend. When the bargain goes sour and the girl isn’t saved, Blaze is transformed, gaining raging superpowers. Based on the Marvel comic series.
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Review :“Ghost Rider” needs a new ghost writer.
Well, it needs something. You might not think that a movie based on a comic book about a flaming skeleton in a leather outfit who rides a (literally) hot motorcycle and has a (literally) penetrating stare would be dull, but this one is.
Johnny Blaze has a motorcycle carny act with his father, riding through fire. The night before Johnny is to run away with his true love, Roxanne, a stranger (Peter Fonda) appears, telling Johnny that he can cure his father’s lung cancer if Johnny is willing to trade his soul.
Johnny does not believe and does not exactly agree, but he spills his blood on the contract, and that is good enough for the stranger, who turns out to be none other than Mephistopheles. Meph, a master of the loophole, cures the cancer, but Johnny’s father dies anyway. And now he belongs to the devil, who tells him he’ll be back when he needs a rider.
Flash forward a couple of decades and Johnny (now Nicolas Cage) is a sort of Evil Kneivel with a bit of Tony Hawk, and a touch of rock star. He performs daredevil stunts in front of huge arenas, his latest a plan to jump the length of a football field. And who should show up to interview him for television but his old friend Roxanne (now Eva Mendes), last seen as he left her standing in the rain.
He persuades her to meet him for dinner, but before he can get there, another old friend shows up, that mysterious stranger again. It turns out that it is now time for Johnny to become “the devil’s bounty hunter” and chase down Blackheart (American Beauty’s Wes Bentley) before he can beat Meph to a missing list of promised souls.
It just doesn’t work. Writer/director Mark Steven Johnson showed with Elektra and Daredevil that he has no feel for comic book stories. The pacing is sluggish and the action scenes are static and repetitious. There are some nice special effects as GR uses a chain like a flaming lasso and Blackheart’s henchmen exert their power over air and water. But the movie violates its own rules so frequently that it removes any real sense of involvement or meaning. Blackheart and his thugs seem like weak attempts to recreate Kevin Smith’s clever street punk demons in Dogma. And as Blackheart himself, Bentley smoulders less persuasively than he did as the drug-dealing, video-taking teenager in American Beauty. When the poor guy is called upon to make sarcastic clapping work in a key confronation, it teeters on the brink of parody.
A hero with a skull face is a cool idea in a comic, but in a movie the inability to show any kind of expression makes it difficult for it to seem menacing or sympathetic, and it is impossible to take advantage of all Cage (a comic book fan whose very stage name is a tribute to another comic book character) can do. Since he can’t play a skull, he is limited to a few expressions of agonizing isolation, longing, and painful transformation. If Ghost Rider wanted to fetch something of value, he should have been out there looking for a better script.
Parents should know that this film has a number of disturbing images, including a flaming skull and other grotesque characters and graphic violence and injuries. Characters drink and smoke and use brief bad language. The issue of selling a soul to the devil and damnation may be upsetting to some audience members.
Families who see this movie should talk about some of the other stories about characters who sell their souls to the devil and what they think about Johnny’s decision at the end of the movie.
Fans of this movie will enjoy reading the graphic novels, starting with Essential Ghost Rider, Vol. 1.
Directed by : Mark Steven Johnson
Produced by : David S. Goyer, Stan Lee, Gary Foster
Sound Mix : SDDS / Dolby Digital / DTS
Official Website : www.ghostrider-movie.com
Actors :
Nicolas Cage | Johnny Blaze
Wes Bentley | Blackheart
Eva Mendes | Roxanne Simpson
Matthew Long | Young Johnny Blaze
Peter Fonda | Mephistopheles
Donal Logue | Mack
Sam Elliott | Caretaker
Jon Voight
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February 20th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
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I have been waiting for this film for over 13 years and MSJ delivered a darn good movie. Having kept up with up to date news and the evolution of the special effects, I was a little spoiled. But when the lights went out and the movie rolled, my eyes never once left the screen.
By now, everyone knows the story so I won’t get into that. What I will mention is that Nic Cage acted spot on (though there were a few instances where it felt jilted, the same for Wes Bentley). The first transformation scene exceeded my expectations (and yes, I saw spoilers for that too) and the Rider’s reaction to the cops on the bridge…I won’t spoil that, but keep a lookout near that scene for a little chuckle.
Oh yes, people laughed during the movie, but none of it forced like some critics would have you believing (though I thought the chimp karate thing was a little awkward). I worried that it would be a little too jokey.
Music. Thank God Johnson didn’t use all modern bands to date the movie. Listen to the Spiderbait’s rendition of “Ghost Riders in the Sky”. As for the score, pardon the pun, but it was haunting.
Have a few nitpicks, but am going to see it again today, and I rarely see movies on the screen for a second time.
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