Buck-toothed Blaze and the movie I shouldn't have seen.

Rating: 3/10 (17 February 2007)

This movie was horrible, its only redeeming value is the special effects and when "The Caretaker," Sam Elliot, is in the scene. This movie had so much potential and fell extremely short. I was expecting a VERY DARK movie that I waited quite awhile for and instead I get "Ghost Rider" - a light-hearted tale with a cheesy love story.
I saw the movie and was shocked, I wanted to leave halfway though but I paid $9.50 so I had to stay. To tell you the truth I kept hoping it was going to get better but it didn't. The movie has great foundational ideas about coming to grips with the "darkness inside of you" and if "executed correctly" could have been better than Batman Begins - but they took a very adult storyline and tailored it to seventh-graders.
By "seventh-graders" I mean this: the dialogue had no "big words" and no intellectual depth; the characters act as if "a flaming skull-demon-man" isn't the scariest damn thing they have ever seen (i.e. there is even a joke about the flaming-skull during the movie); the "demons" in the film look "scary" at different points for no reason, it doesn't fit the tone of the movie, I can only guess it provides a "quick trill" to the little kids watching; Eva Mendes bouncing breasts were particularly annoying in the movie and undoubtedly fueled the fantasies of countless hormone imbalanced teenagers, Mendes' breasts are LITERALLY at the center of the screen in EVERY SCENE and her shirt is frequently unbuttoned at least one or two buttons too far which I guess helps provide a distraction to her melodramatic-soap-opera acting style during the film; Matt Long (Young Blaze) is also a horrible actor and ruins the first part of the movie, which sets up the rest of the film to be as equally hard to watch.
I will not go into depth about about the different parts of the film I thought were horrible since this is not a "spoiler" review. I will tell you that if you are expecting a good movie that "Ghost Rider" hits very far from the mark. If you can stand the cheesy jokes and melodramatic love story then this film is probably for you; but if you are looking for X-Men, Batman Begins, or Spiderman type quality then this is not your movie.