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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 2012

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Nicolas Cage returns as Marvel Comics' Ghost Rider. Also stars Idris Elba (The Wire) and Ciarán Hinds (There Will Be Blood). From the directors of Crank. More

Set several years after the first film, Johnny Blaze (Cage) is in self-imposed exile in Eastern Europe – lamenting his curse as the devil's bounty hunter - when he is recruited by Moreau (Elba). A member of a secret sect of the church, Moreau asks Blaze to use his powers to to protect a mother and son from the devil (Hinds).

"This is a completely original interpretation of Ghost Rider," says Cage. "It's not a sequel [to 2007's Ghost Rider] at all. Everything about it is different including the origin sequence. They'll see new camera moves, high adrenaline, it's like extreme sports. I think the movies going to be an incredibly wild ride." Hide

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121 votes / 41 comments The Talk

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    • Tania

      O for Olsen

    • Matt

      looks Okay

    • Zee

      O for Olive?

    • Stime

      Looks not to bad

    • Leighbo

      I love how bad Nic Cage is, but how watchable he is....an Enigma!

    • Adam

      Nick Cage is fast becoming like Samuel L Jackson - appearing in every other freaking movie!

    • EarlyRiser

      Love the peeing at the end. That joke's worth the ticket alone!

    • Ali

      O for Orangutan.

    • john

      looks alright :)

    • scott

      well looks much better than the first

    • Cee

      of coz its better than the first wtheck, Any movee with nicholas cage is gr8ttt

    • Michi

      Why does he keep making movies?

    • Jux

      He keeps making them because he never paid his taxes and now hes been ordered too

    • Reetz

      "YEAH" awesomeness or what...

    • aw ye

      omg dat is awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • I Kand Beeleefit

      LOL - peeing while on fire!!

    • moe

      lol funny

    • Missy

      looks cool

    • Red

      If i could pee fire would i get a movie made about me or rushed to hospital

    • Chip

      Yes, so glad they did a second, loved the first one.

    • Bob

      Bahaha love the sarcasm Chip....you are being sarcastic aren't you?

    • Matt

      ............... i dont know what to say nick

    • KatieF

      freaky. Retire Nick for goodness sake

    • Zac

      Oh for Christ's sake - did they not fail hard enough with the first one?

    • Liam

      this looks like taken but with a demon. it looks horrible :(

    • Craig

      Hi I'm Nicholas Cage I will do anything for money, including being in awful sequels to terrible originals. YUUUUUCK!

    • L.J

      lol....there's a part 2!!! watched trailer thinking "Are you serious!!? but still kept on watching!!! will wait for dvd....

    • Liam

      looks like number 1 took a massive sh*t and it was this

    • Daniel

      Am I the only one who loved the first 1? Looking forward to this. Looks darker than the first.

    • Hugo Burns

      LOOKS AWESOME! but i'll see the first one first.

    • Nathan

      Looks cool and I've seen the first film so I guess I'd better see this one too, I hope this one will turn out better than the other one.

    • Nathan

      Look cool and I've seen the first film so I guess I'd better see this one too, I hope this one will turn out better than the other one.

    • kylie

      looking forward to seeing it reallly enjoyed ist one

    • Skully

      For the customised Vmax only.

    • RexH

      This flick is going to have some great moments in it. Unfortunately it will probably also be over 115 minutes long.

    • ark

      bet those r the only good scenes

    • Bob

      Why would you ostrasize a huge percentage of your audience by only showing it in 3D? Buttheads!

    • Red

      OMG WHAT A WASTE OF TIME. TERRIBLE MOVIE. EVEN IN 3D

    • ice

      great movie

    • ngarangi

      this movie looks awsome we might go and watch it

    • amelia

      awesome as

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Flicks.co.nz Review

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Liam Maguren Flicks Writer

The first Ghost Rider wasn’t particularly well received, so many wrote off its sequel's chances the moment it was announced. However, with a surprisingly wicked trailer and Crank boys Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor at the helm, it had optimists like me wondering: could this be a supremely awesome action flick? More

Nope. All those cool-looking set pieces are still present and cool-looking. Neveldine and Taylor’s signature ADD editing and frenetic camera work really add to the action sequences, as does the impressive CGI. Unfortunately, every action scene serves as an oasis, sparsely scattered in the desert of B-movie dullness.

The majority of the film is spent loitering around its devil-needs-a-new-human-vessel storyline, centring on a kid who is supposedly the son of Satan (proving to be the most boring child antichrist in history). Character connections are made but serve no point, a needless father-son subplot is shoehorned in and the lame-tastic dialog has only a very limited appeal. Whenever Nic Cage isn’t freaking out about something, he’s completely dreary-eyed and speaking in a monotone. It’s hard not to watch Spirit of Vengeance without giving it the penance stare.

It’s the same, tired complaint: most of the cool stuff in the movie is in the trailer. What we're left with is a largely uninteresting movie that simply refuses to give us the excitement we want. Hide

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  • Bob

    You lost me at '..zany, brilliantly shot 'Crank'...' that movie sucked the big one!

  • adamatdramatrain

    Lucky we don't all like the same thing - otherwise there'd be nothing to watch but 'Alvin & The Chipmunk' movies :)

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Because the first film was so bad - you just had to want more...

adamatdramatrain Flicks Superstar (?)

There is an infallible law of nature that for every great role that Nicolas Cage plays, he takes on 1,672.02 roles that are utter utter sh*te. Francis Ford Coppola's nephew, Nic has played some great roles in some great movies - like 'Birdy;' 'Wild at Heart;' 'Raising Arizona;' 'Leaving Las Vegas;' 'Adaptation;' 'Kick Ass.' He's played some fun roles - like 'Face Off' and 'Air Con.' And then there's the others - the mind numbing awful dreadful horrible others - like 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin;' 'World Trade Centre;' 'Knowing;' 'Next;' 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice;' both 'National Treasure' movies and the first case of sh*te on a bike that was 'Ghost Rider.'

So why (oh why?) the sequel? Who knows...

You'd think that having the excellent Idris Elba (the British Denzel Washington) in the cast would help, right? Wrong. Idris is wasted. You'd think that at least maverick, shoot-from-the-hip-whilst-on-rollerblades directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, who gave us the zany, brilliantly shot 'Crank,' would save the movie. Wrong again. Okay, so maybe you'd hope that Nic's on top form as an unpredictable actor - part psycho, part method-thesp, part Elvis-channelling firebrand. Sorry - wrong again. This is the gurning, ego-explosion Nic of the so-bad-it's-funny 'Wicker Man' remake.

What you get is a rapidly edited hollow sounding CGI'd nothing that you just can't help wishing would emulate Cage's character, Johnny Blaze, and burst into flame and consume this sorry mess. Still, it's great for 12 year old boys who loved the first 'Ghost Rider.' But if you want some quality all-out action for your buck - do yourself a favour and go see Gareth Evans' Indonesian action masterpiece 'The Raid' - it kicks Ghost Rider's bony burning butt.

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Press Reviews

A.V. Club (USA)

The charismatic Idris Elba debuts in a key role... Yet instead of elevating the franchise, Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance ends up squandering even more potential. Full review.

Empire (UK)

A surprisingly underpowered excursion into Marvel's mad world by Neveldine and Taylor. More purgatory than hellfire. Full review.

Hollywood Reporter

A water-treading sequel offering just enough kooky color to keep less-discerning funnybook fans occupied. Full review.

Los Angeles Times

Undone by increased expectations, as promising more only makes it feel they are somehow delivering less. Full review.

New York Times

Has some redeeming qualities, including the presence of Idris Elba as the obligatory good guy, who encourages Johnny to get Danny into the protective custody of a religious order. Full review.

Rolling Stone (USA)

One look at the dreadful mess will turn your whisper into a primal Cage scream: MAKE THIS MOVIE STOP! Full review.

Total Film (UK)

Funny in all the wrong places and long at 95 minutes. Cage might be on fine psychotic form, but the flaming skull barely manages a sizzle this time around. Full review.

Variety (USA)

Weighted down for long stretches in the middle, as it starts to treat its own religious hokum plotline with undue seriousness. Full review.