Cheesy

Rating: Null/10 (29 February 2012)

Bizarre and cheesy is a combination hard to fashion, but Ghost Rider achieves that and more. It is so far the most absurd film of the year taking an established graphic novel and fashioning a mess of action tropes with a hot head hero who's trying the whole time to shed his curse, which of course is the whole reason for the comic to exist.
Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) fights his nemesis for the soul of his little boy while he hopes to change from a minion of the devil to an angel of good. The chaos is not just from the number of set pieces and abundance of baddies but also from loose narrative where transitions seem random or barely connected.
Saddest of all is to see one-time Oscar winner Cage once more sell his name to a product not worthy of him. His over-the-top delivery signifies an artist too tied to the mess. Or just maybe this is a parody of the graphic novel genre lacking only a sense of humor to pull it off.