Yes indeed...it´s time for another pissed off Nicholas Cage, turing into fire on a bike. For those of you who enjoyed the first Ghost Rider motion picture in 2007, this is exactly what you would expect, or is it? Comic books made into movies have a lot to live up to, they need to please fans of the comic books as well as please movie audiences expectations . There are some really bad ones, but then again some adaptions turned out to be really good. This time around, does Ghost Rider give us one hell of a ride, or is this a dead end?
Johnny Blaze ( Nicholas Cage ) is now hiding in Eastern Europe, trying to hide from mankind. A priest named Moreau ( Idris Elba ), contacts Johnny, asking for his help. A mother Nadya ( Violante Placido ) and her son Danny, are wanted by mercenaries leader Ray Carrigan ( Johnny Withworth ). Blaze is not interested in helping humans at first, but Moreau manages to change Blaze´s mind. While Johnny protect Nadya and her son, he finds out that everything is not what it seemed to be.
It would be great to say this is a worthy sequel, in reality, this is not the case. A lot of things have happened since the 2007 movie came out. Budget is less, the cgi effects are not as well made as i would have hoped for. The acting is about at the same level of Days Of Our Lives, wich pretty much says it all. Thankfully it´s not all bad. Some scenes are actually quite funny, they are meant to be serious but instead become amusing. It´s a shame Nicholas Cage doesn´t try harder to do something better with his character Johnny Blaze. In the first movie he actually gave us something of a personality, here...he just tries to look like a mean leather biker. I would not be suprised if there is a 3rd movie coming out within a few years, by then there is alot to be done to make Ghost Rider worthy a cinema experience. At this moment we are just left with something unfinished, almost like directors Neveldine/Taylor just wanted to finish the movie to get paid.
Rating: DD
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