Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott, Donal Logue, Peter Fonda. Comic book thriller. Written & directed by Steven Johnson.
FILM SYNOPSIS: From Marvel Comics comes Ghost Rider™. Long ago, superstar motorcycle stunt rider Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) made a deal with the devil to protect the ones he loved most: his father and his childhood sweetheart, Roxanne (Eva Mendes). Now, the devil has come for his due. By day, Johnny is a die-hard stunt rider... but at night, in the presence of evil, he becomes the Ghost Rider, a bounty hunter of rogue demons. Forced to do the devil's bidding, Johnny is determined to confront his fate and use his curse and powers to defend the innocent. PREVIEW REVIEW: You’d think a $100-million-budgeted film with Peter Fonda playing the devil and Nick Cage playing a biker whose head turns into a flaming skull would be somewhat interesting. Alas, and despite the fact that it lured in an unsuspecting audience its first weekend, I found it – boring – annoying – stupid – take your pick. Nearly burned up by a nonsensical script and bland baddies, the producers hired a cleavage-baring Eva Mendes to be sacrificed on the altar of teen fantasy in a last-ditch effort to buoy a film that has less dimension or pizzazz than a black & white comic book. Along with the flagrant swipe of the Faust story, with the lead having sold his soul to the devil, there’s also the demonic characters. True, the silly premise can’t be taken seriously, but there is a Satan, there are demonic beings and it’s unwise to mock them or write them off as cartoonish creatures that can be easily defeated by the likes of Nicolas Cage. In Jude 1:9 we learn that even the archangel Michael didn’t jeer at Satan, but merely said, “The Lord rebuke you.” In other words, it takes our Savior to defeat the devil. We can’t do it. While there have been movies that address the demonic world in order to make us aware, we should never consider this an appropriate subject matter for mere amusement.
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