A movie that couldn't defeat its devil !

Rating: Null/10 (6 May 2011)

Let's do justice to this movie.
Good things:
1) The story is kind of interesting, not so conventional for a superhero movie; being like creative mix of Faust, Jekyll and Hyde, with elements of the comics' superheroes, and the western's bounty hunters.
2) Some aesthetic shots that try to affect emotionally, and pay a good homage to the classic scope cinema of the 1950s, being - as well - a rare victory for the crazily hyped up CGI in the American movies lately.
3) The jump over the helicopters; greatly wild.
4) The song of The Carpenters; why these old sob songs in specific are so despised in the mainstream soundtracks, and overall considered bad news as if no one likes them?!
5) The scene of the lead explaining, honestly and simply, for his girl why he didn't come to their date; highly comic.
6) Peter Fonda as The Devil, despite how low the material that was given to him.
7) Eva Mendes cute moments.
8) Sam Elliot as Caretaker; OH MY GOD, he's the best of this movie; his deep voice, sane performance, and wily humor are what will live long from it.
Now, to the bad things:
I was about to say everything else the above, but.. I promised of Justice. So count with me:
1) Cage's supposedly funny performance is mostly pathetic. His antics, like making faces to a mirror, oozed silliness. And the rest is sinfully predictable.
2) His hairpiece; like the ones he wears in 90 % of his last movies, did turn me off. I began to believe it's intentional choice from his side to assure that he hates what he's doing! This time, it aspired after decreasing his age, but ended up deforming him utterly.
3) Cage was 43, and it's intelligible that the role was 20 years younger than that! So I loved when he sneered at the difference between his actor, as 17 year old, and his sudden 43 year old appearance by telling Mendes: "It has been 56,000 year since the last time we've met!". He actually was sneering at himself! He didn't have the ghost of a chance to look THAT young, I don't know why they didn't modify the script?!
4) Mendes can't act. Sorry dear Eva, it's the truth!
5) Mendes, as the superhero's girlfriend, is a reporter; well, HOW SHODDY! So was Superman's girl, Batman's girl (in the first movie), even the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' girl!!
6) Wes Bentley can't be Satan junior; whoever selected him was so wrong, I hated the guy not because he was evil, but because he failed as one!
7) Bentley's weird custom seemed like Neo's custom from The Matrix!
8) The confusing matter of; did the lead, as a teen, sign the devilish contract willingly?, or he was just injured in the honed top of it?
9) I couldn't understand if the devil wants the loyalty of the lead, why he killed his father?!
10) How come the son of the devil became mortal after swallowing the souls of all the ancient village's dead habitants?? As the devil's son, he must have been at least smart to know that that would make him beatable. And if he knows from the start, WHY DID HE DO IT??!! (My cousin's comment was: this is the dumbest devil I have ever seen!).
11) So, Sam Elliot as the old ghost rider doesn't age, or does he age slowly?
12) A truly irritating point; if Elliot can, after 150 years, use his superpower for one time only, THEN WHY HE USED IT TO BEAT THE LEAD'S MOTORCYCLE BY HIS FIREY HORSE??? I think he should have been wiser, as he sounds, and use that one last time in something more important like helping out fighting the evil, keeping it from taking over the world, NOT SHOWING OFF!!
13) While his shoulder's torn skin was being sewing, Cage displayed no pain whatsoever; was that for assuring that his character turned into insensitive?, or plainly Cage forgot to act there?!
14) The character of the lead's friend was useless, he was there for what?, and was killed for what either?! Clearly his existence, or nonexistence, sums up the tense of this movie between being a light likable blockbuster and the dark nature of the story it chose.
15) Originally the character of the Ghost Rider isn't that catchy; I wasn't impressed by his looks or powers, and I couldn't sympathize with him, since he was a murderer anyway.
16) Can anybody tell me how the lead defeated the devil in this movie? OK, he finished the sinner souls and that oaf little Satan, but I longed for a serious battle with the devil as the main source of evilness, and all what I have got was the lead doing everything that the devil asked him for, however with anger and nervousness!
17) The lead's idiot speech at the end: "I'll fight you.. in the sequel.. and in the next sequel.. and maybe in a TV show too!". After watching a movie by all of these problems, I refused such a provocatively ambitious move!
The score, or the aftermath, is 8 to 17. It wanted to be entertaining, but many reasons, topped by Cage's make-up as younger version of himself, pushed it to be between average and campy. This movie, unlike its lead, couldn't defeat its devil; the one which makes the B-movies so badly B!
P.S: In the movie's last shot, Cage looks to us with a completely jesting look, winking to us: "Don't take it seriously, I didn't for that matter!".