Utter Crap.

Rating: 3/10 (19 March 2007)

Oh man where to begin. How could they screw up a movie with a premise like this. I've not read any of the comics so don't know how faithful this movie is to the comics but I might seek them out since I like the idea behind the characters and the mythology itself....
The acting and the dialogue was awful even with actors like Cage and Peter Fonda delivering them, and the set up was rushed, like most of the rest of the movie. The FX ranged from OK to GOOD with the first transformation scene of Blaze to Ghost Rider being pretty well done but every change from there on in is in cheap and nasty morphovision and the morphing motorcycle looked stupid even if the flaming bike itself looked cool. The bad guys were non-entities and although they were supposed to be really powerful etc they don't do anything threatening through most of the movie and Ghost Rider eventually offs them with ridiculous ease, even the main dude at the end.
Honestly this movie has so many clichés you'll be bored less than half way in and after waiting about 30 minutes for Ghost Rider to appear you just want him to get off the screen straight away since apart from looking cool he comes across as a complete dork and his dialogue consists of really bad corny one liners. Every time he comes on screen you just hope to hell he doesn't say anything and when he does you'll be so embarrassed for the poor bloke...
I guess Batman Begins and Superman Returns have spoilt us as far as comic book flicks being given the serious treatment go but even if those films weren't around then this movie would still be somewhat lacking..
Lastly although I hesitate to say this there were a few scenes that reminded me of the name Uwe Boll, yes parts of it are that bad....
After seeing the trailers (which wisely consisted of mostly FX shots)I really wanted to like this but those B*st*rds at Hollywood shafted us again....
Go get the comics instead.....