Faust, where are you? I need you! Signed: Mephistopheles

Rating: 4/10 (4 November 2009)

Not having a clue as to what this picture was about, and having caught it a few moments after the opening, we thought immediately about a comic book story, something which eventually is revealed in the closing credits. "Ghost Rider" is about one of the least involving sagas in which Nicolas Cage has been cast as the hero.
Directed by Mark Steven Johnson, and based on his own screenplay, the film makes no sense. The main idea revolves around the eternal theme of how a man can sell his own soul to the devil because the asking person wants to gain something he doesn't have, or in this case because Johnny Blaze, who knows about his father's cancer, wants to save the old man. Unfortunately, for the production team, better made movies have been made using this idea.
In order to sell it to a wide audience, Mr. Johnson and his collaborators haver resorted to special effects big time. Otherwise they had no movie at all. One wonders how much went into the making of this epic that shows little in the way of a plausible story to fill its almost two hours running time. This picture will be championed by those fans that rely on the visuals in order to anything to be deemed good.
Nicolas Cage, who plays Johnny Blaze, is shown with a strange makeup and is always surrounded by fire. Eva Mendez has nothing to do as the love interest of Johnny. Matt Long is good in the earlier scenes. Veterans Sam Elliott and Peter Fonda are also on hand, but they are bogged down by the screenplay that make their characters pointless.