Looks like Johnny Blaze didn't quite make leap to the big screen

Rating: 3/10 (11 March 2007)

The concepts are relatively sound for a comic book film, however ghost rider still has much to be desired. Ghost rider follows the typical trend of comic book films containing an underpinning love story fused with action. The action initially starts at quite a fast paced rate, leaving the audiences anticipating a lavish battle of rider Vs daemon, however the action scenes sadly fall short as they do not deliver much of a fight, but more of an instant KO each and every time! Making the action element seriously lacking and leaving the audiences demanding more. The action is sidelined by the much more predominate love story between Blaze and his childhood sweetheart Roxanne, who spontaneously appears back in the fray before another of Blazes jumps, shot with painfully cheesy camera work, making you wonder how this film ever got such vast funding, moving the audience from one corny moment to the next, enveloping the storyline to its entirety, showing a server lack of script writing talent.
Although Nicolas Cage is a harden movie veteran by nowadays standards being in such classic films as Con air, gone in sixty seconds, face off, 8MM and even holding a place in Tarantino's upcoming film Grid house, we see him in this film struggling to pull off a reasonable role, and showing an overall dreadful piece of acting, resulting in many cheesy lines uttered throughout, making his role actually laughable. And the co-star is not much better with her very embarrassing moments within the script. The worst of which you see her produce a magic eight ball whilst waiting on Blaze! Although the actors are far from blameless i believe the real root of the problem stems from the writers and producers. Sidelining a potentially interesting action film from a much more old fashioned style love story, which lacks substances and originality.
Although not the worst film you will see this year it is hardly worth paying good money to watch, instead you could invest your money seeing this film on perhaps another super hero/ comic book film such as the Punisher or even X-men, or why not wait for Spiderman 3 later this year, or even watch another film instead like Hot fuzz if your after just an action film in the cinema. With all these alternatives there is no need to waste £7.20 or equivalent on a ticket to this 2 hour monstrosity.