Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)
Genre: Action / Fantasy
Duration: 95 minuten
Country:
United States / United Arab Emirates
Directed by: Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ciarán Hinds and Idris Elba
IMDb score:
4,4 (133.904)
Releasedate: 10 December 2011
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance plot
"He rides again."
Johnny Blaze, better known as 'The Ghost Rider' (Nicolas Cage), is hiding in Eastern Europe as he struggles to suppress his curse. Blaze is recruited by a cult to face the Devil (Ciarán Hinds), who plans to take on human form.
Actors and actresses
Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider
Nadya
Roarke / The Devil
Moreau
Ray Carrigan / Blackout
Danny
Grannik
Kurdish
Terrokov
Benedict
Reviews & comments
leatherhead
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- 3556 messages
- 1813 votes
It's that Neveldine and Taylor are at the helm, otherwise this would have been a complete disaster. Every now and then the duo's talent manages to shine through in this otherwise bland superhero posturing. Scenes like the transformation on the bike and the hallucination are moments where the editing à la Crank takes off. It is moments like that where the film still manages to score some points, because for the rest the foot is much more on the brake than before. Visually often well-behaved and the soundtrack feels like an obligatory song. Due to the lack of real madness, you are mainly forced to pay attention to the rather ridiculous plot and the failures of everyone. I can normally handle Cage well, but he doesn't exactly show his best side here. Although it doesn't help that Ghost Rider is even a ridiculous superhero.
Not entirely depressing but of course can't match the Cranks in light years. 2*.
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Shadowed
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- 11421 messages
- 6719 votes
hmm.
It's a bit of a mixed feeling I have about Ghost Rider 2. The duo Neveldine/Taylor clearly has more directing power than Johnson. And in terms of action direction, it is therefore a better film than part 1. Moreover, it also seems that there was more freedom for the duo.
But unfortunately the experience is less like it. The first half hour has the best bits and the best run. The energetic, enthusiastic and at times aggressive direction by Neveldine & Taylor does provide some nice bits. Cinematography is excellent and adrenaline-filled, and the film also uses a variety of styles and types of action.
But after a while, the film takes a turn and slowly begins to collapse. The detail and speed that Neveldine & Taylor stopped in the first half hour is also starting to slip. Still energetic directing, but the duo sometimes goes too far in their own thing.
Film is also running out of edge at the moment and at times exudes a kind of anger that was unnecessary. The shrill rock music as a soundtrack here and there is misplaced and false tunes in other scenes unfortunately don't make the experience any better.
But in the end, the story just starts to get silly and should have been put on the brakes much earlier. That whole cult thing really should have been deleted. Acting is also unfortunately below par, although Cage does have his silly moments that are still fun. But that kid was really bad.
But fun here and there. The Ghost Rider now also looks a lot better than in part 1 and some scenes stand out very positively. Something like the burning crane is quite enjoyable. It's entertaining, but sometimes the film drags on too much or gets too silly. It does recover in the last action scene, but that's just a bit too late unfortunately.
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blackwolves
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- 698 messages
- 680 votes
usually it's always the same with almost all movies whatever it is. There are exceptions
but that's because the character stays the same. okay sometimes one movie is better than the other and you have that with some horror movies where the sequels keep coming and then an end but then a new one do you know them? jason friday the 13th and helloween and sometimes it doesn't bother because we know it's the same as the previous one. and now with the modern times when almost all movies are made with computers and the many super heroes some of them still read when as a kid and then brought them lifelike on a screen and those were something but now the movies about the superheroes you can no longer compare to the batman from our young days and they were already coming around more the movies now it was this one cartoon character's turn to come on screen and yes he was very good the special effects were top notch. when they said there was going to be a second one from ghost rider i was curious and was looking forward to it but what a disappointment they had just messed with the movie and the character that was one the ghostrider's skull they had a change in that brought the same with his engine which was also different. the effect when his eyes burn in that skull was also less and different than in the first movie. only some special effects were still doable but the movie itself no it would have been just as good if they had left everything like in the first movie but now they just screwed it up in my eyes.
Translated from Dutch · View originalPre- and sequels
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