Dull, Lacklustre, fails to make an impact

Rating: 7/10 (28 February 2007)

Ghost Rider was just the movie I expected. Visually stunning, but fails to make a long term impact. Its small run time contributes to the fact. Nowadays almost all comic adaptations are close to 125-140 minutes long. Compared to Ghost Rider's 114 minute adaptation will disappoint the fans of this franchise. Packed with a star studded star cast(comparing with other comic adaptations of late) a regular movie goer might have thought this would be a decent watch. But I'm afraid they will be highly disappointed.
The entire story of Ghost Rider, the history, everything seems to so hurriedly paced. Although the starting scene seems to think otherwise. I cant understand why it was so hurriedly paced. Also the director and the screenplay writer could have included a few sub plots, which would have made the movie mildly interesting, instead, it focuses on the central plot which is why the movie finishes just when it was getting interesting.
There are few things that are worthy of praise in Ghost Rider. And one of them is the Visual Effects. Visual Effects for this movie have been stunning. Mind Blowing. The stunts were also cool, no scratch that ultra cool. Even the viability of the stunts are questionable, still they are good. Eva Mendes looks gorgeous, just like everyone hoped. Wes Bentley looks superb as the villainous Blackheart. Peter Fonda is underutilized. And Nicholas Cage. What can can I say about him? He sure can act and he has proved that here also, since he has retained his suave nature. But his physique isn't good enough for action roles such as this. He is losing his touch if he keeps on acting in such movies as these.
The background score is decent enough. And even though the screen play was short, it was good. The dialogs were pretty good. All in all, a disappointment but still because of the stunning visual effects I'll give it a 7/10 !!!