This movie needs Cro and Tom Servo

Rating: 1/10 (16 February 2007)

When I got a free pass to a prescreening of Ghost Rider at my comic shop, I was thrilled. I'd already been planning on seeing it, as I am a fan of the character, and I typically enjoy Nicolas Cage movies. The trailers I'd seen had not filled me with hope, so I was expecting a bad, but still enjoyable movie, along the same lines of Daredevil and X-Men 3. I was thoroughly disappointed.
The movie began, and I was entertained to see that they were including the original western Ghost Rider in the story, even if they had to completely change the character in order to do so. The movie continued, and I was further impressed that they got Johnny Blaze's origin story right. My nervousness about the quality of the movie began to subside. But then the movie continued further.
It seems that part of the Ghost Rider curse is constant pointing and the spouting of one liners. To say nothing of the re-use of CGI. I don't know how many times I saw the same clip of Ghost Rider flipping his chain around his torso to put it away. Some other reviews have said that the fights were excellent. What fights? I don't know what movie they saw, but I did not see any fights that lasted longer than several seconds.
As I said, my ticket to see the movie was free. I want my gas money refunded. And leaving the theater, I was not the only person muttering that. Nor were we in the minority.
All in all, all I can say is "Mark Steven Johnson, your soul is tainted with the blood of the innocent. Look into my eyes."