A perfect example how good marketing is the soul of Hollywood

Rating: 3/10 (5 March 2007)

Okay, the movie was not bad because it did not follow the comic.
It was bad, because of the writing, directing, acting and even the special effects...So everything.
First off, Eva Mendes. Besides being terrible in the film, she completely misunderstood her role as a T.V. reporter. The few scenes where she is supposed to be doing a news spot remind me of something I saw in high school auditions from a very nervous freshman. Nothing she did was like a T.V. reporter, and she killed every scene she was in.
The script is a type of cheesy rivaled only by "Evil Dead". Except that you can have a fun time watching "Evil Dead", while Ghostrider was just painful. It was as if the lines were pulled randomly out of a hat and the actors were forced to say them with straight faces. I am a fan of Nicholas Cage, but it hurt me to have to see those words fall out of his mouth.
Even the special effects, which were the big marketing tool for this movie,seemed sub par. Particularly when Nicholas Cage transforms. The skeleton is comparative to a cell shaded video game or a claymation T.V. show. And we are expected to take it seriously? The beginning had the intentions of an old romance film and instead pulled off the quality of a modern romance novel. It was clear that the young couple were inexperienced on the camera, but once again, it is not like their lines were worth saying. I work at a movie theater and the reactions afterwords were the same as the "Harry Potter" movies. "Well I had to see it, but man did it suck"