![]() ![]() Blaze makes a deal with Moreau to find and help the child, in return for getting rid of the rider within. There are scenes of glorious madness, where the film lets Nic Cage do his crazy-person thing, but there are too few interludes of pure enjoyment, and too much of a slogging middle to sit through.Īfter a fairly good start when Moreau (Idris Elba), a French alcoholic monk on a motorbike, tries to save a child Danny (Fergus Riordan) and his mum, Nadya (Violante Placido), the credits roll, and we are back seeing Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) trying to fend off the Ghost Rider that resides within him. It's a bother to sit through, and decidedly un-fun for the most part. The formula is there, and with new directors to the franchise, Crank and Gamer's Neveldine and Taylor, there was hope for this to be the better film than the last. ![]() It is meant to, as always, be crazy, over-the-top and fun. Ghost Rider was never meant to be dark, serious or Nolan-esque (which, by the way, is quickly becoming shorthand for justifying nerdiness). ![]() This, and Idris Elba doing an atrocious French accent, and yet this was boring. A comic book character with a skull on fire instead of a head, created in response to the popularity of Evil Knievel in the '70s, a manic actor, and scenes where the lead literally urinates fire. ![]()
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