Oh, Nick... where did it all go wrong?

Rating: 6/10 (14 July 2014)

Once upon a time, the name 'Nicholas Cage' could be associated with setting the cinema box office alight. Then, after one weirdly-awful choice of film after the next, he's been reduced to this - Ghost Rider. You can probably see what he was thinking... recently the 'Marvel' stamp has been very lucrative, what with Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and, of course, The Avengers. Nicolas Cage probably thought this film would be spoken of in the same breath as them.
He was wrong. Poor old Nick - just his luck to pick the one 'Marvel turkey.' Ghost Rider is an example of a comic book character that should probably stick to the pages of a comic book. Nothing really works here, even though everyone does their best to make it happen.
The acting is average, with the actors doing their best with the lacklustre script. But the script doesn't give any of the characters much depth and Nicolas Cage just looks a bit embarrassed to be wearing a blatant hairpiece throughout.
However, who cares about the acting if there's plenty of fun action to keep us entertained? Well... there isn't much here. When Nick changes into the 'Rider' the flaming skull just looks bad and the set pieces of action don't really shout out to you that they're really that special.
Ghost Rider is one of those films that, if you have nothing else to do and happen to catch it on telly, then you might think it's okay. But that's all it'll ever be - okay. Although, saying that... if you compare it to its sequel - it's actually a masterpiece of film-making!
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