The 2007 film Ghost Rider had many of the elements necessary for crackerjack entertainment, or at least goofy, guilty fun: an iconic, morally conflicted Marvel Comics superhero inspired by the early-’70s popularity of Evel Knievel; narration by Sam Elliott; and a seemingly ideal leading man in famously comic-book-loving kook Nicolas Cage, one of the most entertaining crazy-persons in the entertainment business. Yet the best journeyman director Mark Steven Johnson (Daredevil, When In Rome) could manage was slick mediocrity. The 2011 sequel is even more promising in the abstract. Johnson has been replaced by the uneven but sometimes gloriously manic ...
- 2/17/2012
- avclub.com
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