Ghost Rider? T_T

I was talking with my brother about movies a couple of days ago, and we somehow drifted to this one movie: Ghost Rider. I never saw it but I thought it was pretty cool from the trailers. So my brother told me it sucked, and I was curious to find out so I borrowed a DVD (borrowed, so there’s no guilt in buying). Watching a movie just to see how bad it is wasn’t new to me. I did that on Alexander, the Colin Farell movie. Oh boy….what a movie. Anyway, back to the review.

The tagline was “Hell is about to be unleashed.” And it was right, hell was unleashed, and it was terrible! I was really disappointed with how this movie turned out to be. I mean, I loved Face/Off (I’m Castor Troy! lols), but this movie was just ugh. 

Going to Ghost Rider, the animations are really great. The flaming skull, chain, and bike really blew me away. But aside from that, the movie stank. The storyline was just horrible, especially the battle sequences Ghost Rider had with his enemies. The movie just failed to show me how cool Ghost Rider is by quick battle scenes and this gesture by Ghost Rider which really annoyed me (the part where he points at someone and goes, “You.”) Maybe Nic Cage thought it was cool when he helped write the script. Maybe. Ghost Rider also has the penance stare, where he stares at you while you relive the pains of your sins a thousand times over. The victim then gets his eyes turned to something (I don’t know what it is -.-’) and falls down. The movie doesn’t even tell you if he’s blind or dead.

So the villains in the movie are three elemental dudes and the son of Satan himself - Blackheart. Kind of like a video game, where the hero fights these mini-bosses(the elementals), then has a dramatic face-off with the final boss (Blackheart). 

So the first battle was with Earth. Earth just rams Ghost Rider with a truck, which looked awesome. But as Earth was walking away, Ghost Rider pops out of nowhere, punches Earth, and wraps him in his flame whip. Earth dies. At this point I was really concerned. Earth hardly put up a fight! It was just a scene of Ghost Rider saying a one-liner (Mercy? All out of mercy.) then quickly dispatching Earth. That was it??

The second battle was with air, which wasn’t as bad as Earth but still bad. So Air shows up, Ghost Rider shows up and they rumble. Ghost Rider tries what he did to Earth but (!), here’s the twist: You can’t grab air. I was thinking, “woah! how’s he going to get out of this hole?” So Ghost Rider whirls his whip to trap Air in a funnel, then Air explodes. All this in less than a minute. T_T 

 

The third battle was the most disappointing among the mini-boss battles. So Ghost Rider rides in this forest with mist (o0o0oh). I was expecting Water to come out of nowhere any minute. And then BOOM! Nic Cage gets pulled underwater by none other than Water himself! So they wrestle underwater, Water clearly looking like he has the situation under control. Nic Cage’s eyes then burst into flames and turns into Ghost Rider, and quickly kills Water. Again, all in under a minute, or now that I think about it, 30 seconds. Talk about anticlimactic! Water was killed in his own house! He’d at least try to win but he just died as fast as he appeared. The anticipation was just ruined. 

Before going to the final battle, I’d like to describe another horrible scene. So Nic Cage meets the old Ghost Rider and both ride out to battle. Nic Cage has his fire bike, and the old Ghost Rider has his fire horse. So they both ride out to meet Blackheart. Just seeing  two ghost riders riding out was the coolest. Then just as they were about to meet Blackheart, old Ghost Rider says, “This is the end of the trail for me *rides back*.” Oh…my…god. What was that….. 0_0

Okay, so it’s final boss time, the son of the devil. This ought to be nice. But I’ll just do what this movie does so well, I’ll skip right to the end. So Ghost Rider ends up choking Blackheart and giving him the penance stare. Blackheart then dies/gets blind. No secret powers, or dramatic final battle scenes, just a choke then a stare. That’s it, visual effects aside, horrible, horrible movie. Rating: D :)) (there’s a rating?)

 

The evil council will live on! haha

Kung Pow!: Enter the Fist review by Rein coming soon!

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~ by denisSsSsSs on April 7, 2008.