Blaze of Borey

Rating: 2/10 (5 February 2012)

With the sequel, 5-years late and quite obviously just another paycheck-grab for broke Nicolas Cage, heading to theatres in a few weeks, I thought I would see the original 'Ghost Rider' (2/10 Stars) for the very first time. I never wanted to before, based solely on my distaste of Cage and the movie looked downright silly. I was right: the flaming head of Hellboy on Wheels was outrageously cornybut let's look beyond that, shall we? Incredibly misconstrued and too complex script, laughable acting – especially the fake looking Cage (namely, when he wasn't CGI'd to death and still human), terrible dialogue, bad guys that look so hilarious when demonized that you want to develop a drinking game bases solely on them and awful and uninspired camera shots. I never thought many super-hero movies would come close to the travesty 'Daredevil' was, but this one seemed to ride all over it. Did I mention it was just shy of two hours, a full half-hour longer than it needed to be? I'll admit, I was confused throughout with about six characters and their separate motivations, but it was the writer's job in what's supposed to be a simple comic-book character to make it accessible by the end. I guess you can say no to the Devil per YOUR OWN CONTRACT with him and then use the same powers he gave you to "fight" the wrong-doers? Or why would he want to? Or why does the "curse" come out only at night, but then shadows work too? And when did certain people become "innocent" – everyone's guilty of some sin – if we're supposed to go with the Bible like this is preaching? When the credits rolled I had multiple questions unanswered but the biggest was: why didn't I listen to my initial gut reaction and never see this?