A really poor effort

Rating: 5/10 (20 February 2007)

Let's get it out of the way upfront, I am a huge fan of the Ghost Rider comics but I still found this movie to be very, very average.
The first 5 minutes were bad, then after Johnny sold his soul to save Barton Blaze (whoops! what happened to Crash Simpson?) who died in one of the lamest crashes ever caught on film I knew I was in for some serious suckage.
What do film studios seem to consistently think that they can take a proved hit comic book script and throw it all out the window and totally rewrite the script to make a 'better' movie? The Ghost Rider effects were cool, the fights totally lame, the story was also lame while at the same time being inconsistent with the comics and the dialogue was generally dreadful. On the plus side, Eva Mendes must have the most gorgeous rack in modern cinema, this alone should keep the young male fans entertained.
Where was the love story? Where was the witty, cowboyesque banter? Where was the Blaze/GR duality? The struggle between GR and Satan for his soul? Sorry all cut to make the story 'better' *cough* *cough* *hurl* In the end I give this movie 5 stars, 4 stars for finally seeing GR on the big screen, 3 stars for Eva Mendes' boobies and -2 stars for choosing Nicholas Cage as Johnny Blaze/Ghostrider. And if we total all this up that's correct if I wasn't a huge GR fan this would be a 1! They must have hired the guys that made The Phantom to ruin this one.