The Ghost Rider returns with more incredible motorcycle mastery on the streets of ... more
Stockholm, Sweden.He taunts police on a race-tuned Suzuki GSX-R 1000, pulls wheelies at over 100 mph and has close calls that will make even the most experienced motorbik...
Advantages: The theme music and some decent special effects Disadvantages: The plot, script and general all round storyline
When he finds out that his father has terminal cancer, Johnny Blaze makes a pact with the Mephistopheles (Peter Fonda) to give him his soul if he saves his father. Once he has his soul the devil saves Blaze's father temporally as per the agreement but double crosses him and kills Barton Blaze in a motorcycle accident. Many years later Johnny (Nicholas Cage) is risking his life in madder stunts every week until one week the Mephistopheles calls in his debt. If Johnny accepts the offer the devil will release him from his curse, but only if he becomes the GhostRider and stops his evil son Blackheart from destroying the world.
The transformation of GhostRider to the big screen is the latest in a long list of Marvel comics to be made into a Hollywood blockbuster. Just like the majority of those films it also finds itself added to ...
Advantages: Good Fun Disadvantages: Wishy Washy Devil
be), but the way in which it showed Johnny change from stunt rider to ghostrider was very cleverly done indeed.
Good performances also from Eva Mendes and Sam Elliot (Sam played the Caretaker - a previous ghostrider of the devil many years ago).
Peter Fonda's portrayal of the devil was a little bit wishy washy for me, but it didn't spoil the film - I just think he should have been more 'demonic'.
One thing I can say is please don?t take this film too seriously, I mean after all it was based on a comic book story! But it is ideal if you want to watch a fun film, plus the sound tracks not too bad either.
DVD Info
Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Colour
Language: Catalan, English, Spanish
Region: Region 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: 15
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent. UK
Run Time: 118 minutes ...
Advantages: Action-packed and fast-paced... entertaining. Disadvantages: None
Directed by: Mark Steven Johnson
Written by: Mark Steven Johnson
Genre: Action - Fantasy - Thriller
Country: USA/Australia
Certification: 15+
Language: English
Released: 2nd July, 2007 (DVD)
MAIN CAST:
Nicolas Cage (Johnny Blaze/GhostRider)
Eva Mendes (Roxanne Simpson)
Brett Cullen (Barton Blaze)
Peter Fonda (Mephistopheles)
Donal Logue (Mack)
Wes Bentley (Blackheart)
'GhostRider' is based on Marvel character Johnny Blaze, who gives up his soul in order to save his father, and becomes a hell blazing vigilante by night whose purpose it is to hunt down evil and dispatch it back to hell.
In order to avoid confusion, Marvel Comics 'GhostRider' is now called 'The Phantom Rider', and the character in the comics is simply a regular human who wears a white costume and rides a white painted horse.
BRIEF ...
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