GHOST RIDER Film Review - 4/3/07

Like digging in some Western valley sometimes you hit that rich silver seam and the sky's the limit - Othertimes it's like the Painting By Numbers Set you have chucked in the garage covered in dust. In this case "Ghost Rider" is the latter from the current trend of comic-book characters fleshed out for the big screen and suffers all of it's excesses. Dreadful CGI that really is crap, dull and trite dialogue and Nicolas Cage I could swear was asleep when he made this as he just sleepwalks through the whole process. The director of this had directed "Daredevil" and I had hoped for something similar unfortunately it was nowhere near as good and just really struck me as dull. The cliches may as well have been dripping off of the bad guy's tongue there were so many and it really was formula dross - Absolutely dire. Peter Fonda did put a good performance in though as the devil - But it can't really be regarded as a recommendation.