The movie does get the Ghost Rider visuals surprisingly right. If you make one “Horse Power” joke, I’m going to throttle you with my chain He is backed with a few great supporting stars in Sam Elliott, Peter Fonda, and an early appearance by Rebel Wilson in a small cameo. It is odd but he could be the best thing about the movie and the worst thing about the movie at the same time. It is both jarring and watchable at the same time. He plays Johnny Blaze so bizarrely with a strange accent and quirky behavior traits that really feel like they were his addition to the script. Nicolas Cage is generally a love him or hate him type of actor and this movie is a good example of why. It feels like the movie needs more direction and balance to it. It seems to wander throughout most of the movie between the sappy romance between Johnny and Roxanne, the curse, and then it gets back into a story. The story for Ghost Rider might be the primary problem. The movie blends the ’70s Ghost Rider with aspects of the ’90s Danny Ketch version…but it still has a lot of the same basic problem of the original character. By the ’80s he was gone, but the character found a resurgence in the ’90s and became the leader of Marvel Comics “Midnight Sons” horror comics. He was created in the ’70s when the Comic Code lightened up and horror books resurfaced. Ghost Rider always seemed like a bit of an antiquated character. Crap…I thought I was auditioning for Nightcrawler
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