Very disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (18 February 2007)

I saw this tonight and I was very disappointed. I wish I walked in with lower expectations, but I didn't expect to dislike a Nicolas Cage movie so much.
I thought that the movie took way too much time setting up the back story and showing us the actual Ghost Rider. Of course Johnny Blaze's story is necessary, but there were too many extra scenes in it that could have been taken out and we still would've gotten all the motivation and background needed.
Secondly, too much romance, not enough action. I didn't go in there to watch Eva Mendes's breasts get more screen time than Carter Slade as GR. Maybe some people did, but personally I would liked to see more of Ghost Rider kicking ass and less of Nicolas Cage pining.
And speaking of the casting of Eva Mendes. Johnny and Roxy look the same age when they're young, and suddenly X number of years later he's ten years her senior? I mean come on! Either cast a 6-year-old as young Roxy or cast a woman Nicolas Cage's age as grown up Roxy. Hopefully a better actress than Mendes.
And what was with the absolutely throw-away death of the water Nephilim? "Oooh, we're running out of time and got an extra villain left over, we have to kill him in under two minutes." Was that the thinking that went into that "scene"? It wasn't very good thinking and it's reflective of the whole movie.
Bottom line: could have been much better.