If the movie is delayed for a few months, people will be a little ironic about its quality, but it will be unfair. If the movie is almost a year behind schedule, like Mark Steven Johnson's Ghost Rider, even the most ghost rider review optimistic souls tend to stay upwind, wary of the stagnant stink of failure. Johnson, of course, was previously on the road with Marvel Comics movies, along with the underrated Daredevil. But far from the disaster many expected, Ghost Rider is actually a fun event, and its hero comes from fiery hell, so it's more fun and lighter than you might expect.
Unfortunately, the comics are very dark, but the movie version of Ghost Rider clearly took a cheesy approach. This didn't work for most critics. The movie is currently 26% on Rotten Tomatoes, but has an approval rate of 5.2 / 10 on IMDB and 90% on Google reviews. So why does the movie do such a bad rap? When the first Ghost Rider movie was released in 2007, fans were excited to see the on-screen adaptations of the Spirit of Bengens in its ferocious glory, but taking a non-comedy approach ,It. For more powerful cartoon movies like X-Men, Spider-Man, Batman Begins.
Apparently, he also learned that since Daredevil, superhero movies are only as good as their villains, and the bad guys need more screen time than he seems willing to give them. did not. The bad guy here is Blackheart (Wes Bentley), the son of Mephistopheles, who is trying to take over hell and create it on Earth. The devil does not seem to be able to exercise his own father's discipline, summoning Johnny's marker and sending him to stop his selfish son disguised as a ghost rider who set fire to his skull. But, literally, the core conflict with the enemy of firepower is lukewarm and underdeveloped. "I don't think we're going to have a meaningful conversation," Blackhart tells Johnny early on, and sadly he's right. Their conflict has no heat (please forgive puns), and Blackheart and his three minions (human-shaped Earth, air, and water elements) are absent for long screen times.
On her side, Roxanne also has a predominantly functional role that seems to inspire Johnny, predominantly in episodes of her soul quest. It doesn't help that both performances are boring. Bentley is more like a self-righteous child than a world domination, and Mendes seems to be paler than passionate (of course, he attaches a cow reaction shot to Johnny and Roxanne's first adult kiss. Have appeared in movies like). And when the Blackheart and Roxanne subplots converge, that's exactly what you'd expect, the way villains and brides interacted from the dawn of the film.
I also have Sam Elliott, especially the white-haired, as a graveyard watcher to help explain, and unfortunately contains as many contradictions as a rational explanation. You never seem to be confused by the fact that his prey has a burning skull where his head should be. The special effects are spectacular, as luxurious and expensive as a rider and his fiery bike barking over a building and waving a chain of fire like a whip. However, the space at the heart of this movie cannot be visually appealing. "That's how the legend is born," Elliott's narration echoes at the end of the story. Using "franchises" instead of "legends" and adding a little illusion, you get what looks like a real inspiration for the existence of this movie.