Ghost Rider

2007 action movie

Rating: 3/20

Plot: Aptly-named Johnny Blaze is riding in the tire tracks of his daddy, a motorcycle stunt rider. When he discovers that his father is terminally ill, he makes a deal with the devil, selling his soul in exchange for a healthy father. It doesn't work out so well. Years later, his skull catches on fire and he starts speaking in comic book one-liners. This really seems to screw up his life.

What's that? You watched the remake of The Wicker Man and still require further proof that Nicolas Cage is America's worst actor? Look no further than the scene in Ghost Rider where he is laughing at a video of a monkey performing karate. "Mack, you touch the Carpenters or that chimp video again, we're gonna have a scrap on our hands." Or watch every time he talks to himself in a mirror in this movie. Or watch every other time he happens to be on the screen. He really matches up with well the almost equally bad Eva Mendes here. This movie is almost like a terrible joke. Actually, to be positive, I watched the previews of this when it came out and rated it a 1/20 without seeing it. So, it turned out to be three times as good as I thought it would be. Which seems about right since the movie is also about three times longer than it should be. Maybe the best thing I can say about the movie is that you can pause it at any time and have a pretty good cover for a pretty bad 80's heavy metal album. It's good to see that Peter Fonda is making such excellent career choices at this stage in his career.