Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengenence

After the 2007 movie did not do well....let us say the only thing good about that version was the CGI.  The story, plot, and character development was so bad that as fans of the comic book we just would've rather seen the comic just stay that......a comic.  

Well, Directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor decided to take on Ghost Rider, well to our dismay they failed.   Unlike the first film CGI can't save this one it was horrible the camera work was hurky jerky and pretty much made us sick. (Thank God we didn't see it in 3D) The story, yes folks the story where the hell was it.  There was no story, plot or anything else.  Basically we are going to put spoilers in this review....generally we don't, but this film is so bad that we rather save you your hard earned money.  

The film starts in Eastern Europe (ok why we're there we don't know lets just roll with it.)  We see Moreau played by Idris Elba (he was wasted in this) riding on this road headed into Monastery once inside he greeted by a monk or some high priest and he is taken into a room that looks like a room from a James Bond film.  Moreau is told that they must protect the boy before dawn of the third morning or something like that.    Moreau says that the only one to protect him is "The Rider."  The head priest shrugs him off and we see the bad guys.  They come into the Monastery guns blazing like some sort of raid and Moreau is caught in the middle.  Moreau sees the boy and his mother and he leaps down the stairs like he's some superhero (you see our point here) yelling at them that he's there to protect him she freaks then the next thing we see is a I am Johnny Blaze retrospect montage ala Neveldine & Taylor. If you've seen the Crank movies then you know what we're talking about.  We are not going to talk anymore about the film because it's just not worth it.

Overall conclusion of Ghost Rider-Spirit of Vengeance....... avoid paying for this crap wait for cable tv and only watch it if your bored, but if your are a film buff and you want to see this in a theater wait to see it in a $2 dollar theater because that's about all it's worth.

Message to Sony give the rights back to Marvel/Marvel Studios for a true proper reboot.   Do it for the love of comic and film fans everywhere.  

Cast

Nicolas Cage

Ciaran Hinds 

Violante Placido

Idris Elba

Johnny Whitworth

Fergus Riordan

Christopher Lambert

Directed by

Neveldine/Taylor