Did we go to see the same movie the critics did?

Rating: 7/10 (20 February 2007)

My wife and I went and sat for Ghostrider this weekend and really enjoyed ourselves. Sure, some of the dialogue was overwrought and took itself too seriously but I really think Cage's performance more than balanced that out. This is a movie that with some dialogue changes would have been amazingly good but just ended up being an entertaining sit. In some of the reviews I read they mentioned Cage's character wearing a black Elvis wig. That wasn't in the version we saw at all. Perhaps part of why we enjoyed it so much was that we hadn't been exposed to the source material so we were able to enjoy Cage's version of Johnny Blaze more than if we'd gone in with a characterization already in mind.