Ghost Rider is awesome ... this movie sucks.

Rating: 3/10 (18 February 2007)

First, lets be clear. I love comics; I love stupid action movies, and I love explosions.
Ghost Rider is one of the coolest concepts, and had potential to be one of the years most fun movies.
Unfortunately, this wasn't the case.
The movie was weak, the lines were poorly written and even more poorly delivered, and despite that a comic book movie requires suspension of disbelief, this movie was not believable at all.
--- May contain spoilers --- The CGI was pretty good ... too good, in fact. The movie spent way too much time animating scenes and making "cool" effects (there were several scenes that were a CGI artist's wet dream ... but these served to detract from the movie rather than add to it). The effects were fun until the last scene when, a la the end of blade and highlander, a character is filled with the souls of others - and the effect here is almost as poor as it is in those movies. They should have spent less time detailing every single flame on Nick Cage's head and more time on this scene.
--- End Spoilers --- The acting was, at best, third rate. None of the actors put any effort into their characters ... the villains sounded like high schoolers in a bad play. The interactions between the two "main" villains inspired less respect for or fear of them, and more cringing at how poorly the dialog was both written and presented.
Eva Mendes shows her cleavage throughout the movie. At first, this is a positive, but as the film wears on you find it does nothing to alleviate the lack of effort she puts into her character. And by the end of it, you're pretty sick of seeing the inch of flesh between her breasts ...
I would honestly say that the best reason to see this movie is if you're either a fan or student of CGI, or if you want to see what is probably the best job of casting a "younger version" of the main actors (both young Eva Mendes and young Nick Cage looked a lot like their older versions).
At best this movie deserves a 1.5 out of 5.