Wow! That was awful!

Rating: 1/10 (19 February 2007)

This movie isn't really a 1, it's more like a -5. I think this is one of the worst films I've ever seen.
Just to set the record straight, I _LIKE_ super hero films. I _LIKE_ bad films. I even like Ed Wood films.
I went into this movie knowing it was going to be bad but at least some cheesy camp might be fun. Even though they were terrible films, I found some entertainment in Chronicles of Riddick, Water World, Battlefield Earth. Heck, I even liked the 70's Spider Man movies, but this wasn't even enjoyably campy bad. It was just _really_ bad. Worse than the Spawn movie. Worse than the Ultraman movies. Bad bad bad bad bad.
The plot was terrible, the research was pathetic. Most 3rd graders probably know more about the names of various demons and what they do than the writers for this film.
The acting was .... It was like Nicholas Cage was Bela Lugosi, acting for Ed Wood. Except Cage isn't half the actor Lugosi was and whoever directed this, was far worse than Ed Wood on three hundred times the budget.
And as for story, let me just take one little snippet to explain the whole film.. Okay... So there's this scene where the old guy reveals that he's a ghost rider too (big surprise, we didn't see that coming from the first second he was introduced, no, not at all)... So they transform and ride 500 miles across the desert to have a big battle with Blackheart. The old guy says, "I can only transform one more time. Let's stick to the shadows and see if we can't get the drop on him." (or something to that effect) and then he rides off in another direction and disappears, AND WE NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN.
Okay, I admit, it was a surprise ending. Formula dictates he should jump out at the last second and save the young ghost rider, probably getting 'finished' in the process and having a tedious death scene but no. He just VANISHES from the plot. The hero and his girlfriend never mention him again. Not even a 'I wonder where that old guy went.' He's just dropped out of the story.
This is the WHOLE movie. It's filled with all these surprises like that! And by surprises, I mean things that just don't make sense, are poorly represented, or just plain stupid. Seriously. How bad a director do you have to be to lose an entire major character? The only good (and by good, I mean enjoyably bad) moment in the film is when his already silly-looking motorcycle (a blatant rip of one of the bikes in Easy Rider) transforms into the totally over the top demon bike. It's hysterical. OOOOOH! It has chains and horns and SKULLS! It SCREAMS 'I drew this in maf klass.' Okay. That one part had me howling with laughter, Maybe it was worth one star, but the rest of the film is so utterly horrible (and not in a good way) that this is really a waste of time unless you happen to be an eight year old NASCAR fan who's been repeatedly hit in the head with a brick.