Ghost Rider does have a life, but not yet

Rating: 5/10 (19 August 2007)

Here you have a great opportunity for a film: Ghost Rider. Johnny Blaze who makes a deal with old Satan and becomes his 'bounty hunter'. Gosh what an interesting idea...but THIS telling of the story doesn't live up to what this film could have been. The best part of the film is the Ghost Rider. He just needed a better, tighter story.
I thought Peter Fonda was a perfect cast as Satan choosing Johnny Blaze. It's an ironic cast, which is what made it good. Same with Sam Elliot as the Caretaker. After those two actors, it gets kinda muddled. I like Nic Cage, he has the "melancoly" of Johnny Blaze, he just couldn't fully pull it off --- and some of that is not his fault, but the fault of the script. The Roxanne storyline, fell flat for me as well as Blackheart's did. Every time Blackheart and his minions were on screen, I thought of the TV series "Buffy..." and they did it better.
It's sad that this version of Ghost Rider came out the way it did, the story has such potential but I gave it a middle of the road score for the nice graphics of the Ghost Rider and the potential of something better up the road.