Ghost Rider

Growing up I loved the Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider comics and so I was very pleased when he got his own movie. Despite being a box office success (and breaking opening weekend records!) it’s not the greatest superhero movie around. That said, it’s still better than the versions of Ghost Rider we see in Agents of SHIELD. The main issue is that the MCU kicked off the following year and blew everything before it away. It’s a pity that Marvel/Disney don’t have any plans for Ghost Rider so, in the meantime, we have this. I like it, cheesiness and hammy acting included.

Ghost Rider is what Sharknado tried to be

Whoever cast Nicolas Cage in this role, you’ve made the wrong decision.

Don't think I've seen Cage in such a poor movie. It's not a bad movie, but it was a poor choice on his part.

Mediocre action flick with a mediocre cast and a mediocre story.

Is this movie dumb? Yes, but is it fun? Also yes.

Overall Rating - 5/10

A non MCU marvel movie about a dude that's made a pact with the devil. A contract fulfilled in exchange for saving the one. Boring storyline but an okay CGI. The sequel's CGI went down the drain.

The movie is awful, but what a great story, damn!
They should make a dark remake.

_Ghost Rider_ is another lackluster, yet entertaining, adaptation of a Marvel comic. The Devil comes to call on stuntman Johnny Blaze to be his Ghost Rider and charges him to hunt down a demon named Blackheart who’s attempting to overthrow Hell. Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, and Wes Bentley all give mediocre performances and none of the characters are particularly interesting. Even the Ghost Rider effects are poor; the flaming skull, chains, and motorcycle all look completely fake. Still, the action scenes are pretty fun and exciting (cheesy though they may be). While it has its problems, _Ghost Rider_ delivers some thrills and proves to be one of the more interesting Marvel films.

As cheesey as they get was Ghost Rider, especially the prologue, "erh" is how I would describe it. 

Every piece of information in this film is a spoon-feeding process done to you in dialogues plainer than white bread, and that seams to be the only way Hollywood handled comic adapts back the 2000s. To think that this only came 3 years before Ironman for me is still troubling to believe. 

The way the camera moves, the way the female lead talks (and costumed, and many more things women that is totally uncool to view in 2024 standards), to the way the music is composed and played- all screams mediocrity louder than anything else, but hey, you and I both finished watching it so I guess there're some merits in making a movie about daredevil bike rider with flaming skull heads.