a good bad movie

Rating: 5/10 (24 February 2007)

i read a few GR comics, mostly with Dan Ketch (the next Ghost Rider after Johnny Blaze). Unlike most of the comics, it was dark, and somewhat twisted. And it lived up to the whole "spirit of vengeance" thing.
The movie was nothing like it. it was more Daredevil and Catwoman than Spiderman, Batman Begins and Superman Returns; but unlike DD, it really BOMBED. they tried to make Johnny Blaze and GR come off as "cool", but it just didn't work.think of a biker who doesn't touch alcohol but instead "drinks" jelly beans from a martini glass, finds chimps to be extremely funny, and whose fave song is by Karen carpenter. As GR, he pulls off one-liners that just come up SHORT. And the finger pointing thing (you'll find out what I mean when you watch it) is just so... lame. In addition, there's a lot of useless scenes that tries to do more of the same, but they just ruin the whole movie. Also, Nic Cage as GR just doesn't work.
But being a big-budget Hollywood flick, it had nice special effects and some pretty cool scenes. and some of the intentional humor were okay, though the unintetional ones were a whole lot laughable.
The movie would have worked better if they focused more on the penance stare-"spirit of vengeace" theme and presented GR as a dark superhero.
Overall, i predict you'll find it bad but entertaining