Peter Fonda is giving up his motorcycle

Rating: 5/10 (30 September 2008)

Peter Fonda will certainly remain the hero of the most famous motorcycle movie made ever, but here he plays a very different role, joining the gallery of famous Hollywood actors who have played the Devil. And the Devil is using a motorcycle because we are in the 20th century comics universe, however the rider is Nicholas Cage acting as the Devil's head-hunter.
'Ghost Rider' is a combination of Faust, cheap popular culture, computer effects and comics-deep characters that works to a certain extent but also shows deeply the limitations of the genre, or of the mix of genres I should say. It is the choice of a fine actor like Nicholas Cage with good supporting roles from Finda and Eva Mendes that makes the combination even more obviously look like badly mixed. Cage's melancholy is disturbing in every scene he is in, but is not convincing and not in tune with the quantity of muscles on his body and the spectacular action around. The ending is badly written, non-convincing, and if it was meant to signal the start of the series it did not ignite at all for me the wish to see the follow-up installments. 'Ghost Rider' is not bad, but is far from the other Fonda motorcycle movie.