Somebody sold their soul to the devil...to make the suckiest movie ever

Rating: 3/10 (16 February 2007)

The movie was mildly entertaining. If I knew what I knew now, I would never pay to see it. Also, I liked the previews before the movie. Here is a brief summary of the problems:
1. Cheesiness: Here are some lines (quoted from memory): -"You didn't see your soul for greed, you sold it for love. And that gives you the power of God. You are more powerful." Gay. -(By Ghost Rider. Apparently, he speaks in grunts like a caveman) You. Guilty! (While pointing). "I. Monster." -At night I turn into a big monster because I work for the Devil. That's why I couldn't meet you for dinner last night. Also, whenever Nicolas sees the devil, he just stands there and points his finger at him and says, "YOU!!!" and the camera zooms out.
2. The acting: Eva Mendes has many many great qualities, but acting is not one of them. Also, Nicolas Cage is one of the most overrated actors in the world. Sam Elliot plays a horrible role as a cowboy/mentor for Nicolas Cage. The devil's son was horrible as well. Horrible.
3. The storyline: It starts out with a son who loves his dad and the dad loves his son and the son has a girlfriend and they love each other. It's impossible to describe how bad the acting is during this part of the movie. Given this much information, you can guess the structure of the plot - dad dies and the protagonist has to leave his girlfriend, but she shows up later in the movie, all grown up and extremely hot and no ability to act.
Also, there are these 3 sub henchmen that help the main bad guy. The fight scenes where Ghost Rider kills them each take like 30 seconds. Everyone is immortal, but apparently, chains with fire is their only weakness. Good thing Ghost Rider has a chain with fire.
When he first turns into Ghost Rider, his bike destroys everything that gets close to it as he drives down the street. The destruction is so powerful, that he burns a 6 inch groove into the asphalt. Yet, he can drive up a glass building and it only breaks the glass directly under the tires.
Then there's his books. He has a bunch of books about the devil. During the course of his research (reading Faust), he comes across a line about how the firey demon within can control the possessing spirit through will power. This reference was enough to instruct him on how to control his power.
Although I used to read comics when I was twelve, I never read Ghost Rider. I realize that the writers were trying to keep some parts true to the comics, but maybe this was a relatively unpopular comic for a reason. Sam Elliot's character is just horrible. It brings in this whole element of cowboy that is very out of place. I don't want to include too many spoilers, but the last scene with Sam Elliot is just weird. It makes no sense. At all.
I love comic book movies - Blade, X-men, Spiderman. But this one is just so horrible. I have written a lot of school papers the night before they were due (*a lot*), and that is what this screenplay stinks of.
So basically, this is a movie with bad fight scenes, bad story, plot holes, bad acting. The last ten minutes of the movie, I was hoping that all the loose ends would be tied up with no hope for a sequel.