Ghost Rider
So the site exaggerated their review a bit, or they are part of a teeny-tiny minority of those who actually thought the film was good.
Since we are still living in Banville on the film, we do not have our own review ready just yet. But the critics across the net have weighed in and the most common phrases are 'laughable', 'nightmare', 'worst' and 'crap'. Not surprisingly, these weren't the worst descriptions.
Ghost Rider Reviews
Ghost Rider is getting blasted by critics. I predicted that Columbia Pictures had a Daredevil on there hands and it turns out that they wish they had a Daredevil on their hands. Ouch!
ReelFilm
Thoroughly dull from start to finish, Ghost Rider is undoubtedly one of the worst comic book adaptations to hit theaters since the genre's recent resurgence - as writer/director Mark Steven Johnson is ultimately unable to offer the viewer anyone or anything worth caring about over the course of the film's interminable, egregiously drawn-out running time.
Johnson has infused Ghost Rider with a relentlessly campy vibe that's reflected in virtually every aspect of the production - from the laughably overwrought dialogue to the superficially-developed characters to the flat-out silly look of the central character - with the end result a film that's destined to provoke unintentional laughter and Mystery Science Theater 3000-style mocking from audiences.
Cinematical
So after months of delay, several unimpressive pieces of promotional material, and an alleged press blackout, tonight (only a few short hours before its release date) we finally got to take a look at Mark Steven Johnson's Ghost Rider -- a Marvel Comics adaptation that, frankly, never should have even made it past the pre-production stage. This is a shapeless, confused and entirely muddle-headed movie, and it's one that got green-lit only because, hey, Spider-Man, Batman and X-Men turn huge profits, and as of a few years back, each movie studio was falling all over one another to get their hands on some of the "secondary" Marvel characters.
Unfortunately we're supposed to be taking FlameSkull pretty seriously -- and that's what makes Ghost Rider one of the funniest flicks I've seen in months.
If it is any consolation, Toronto Star said the film was so-bad-it's-good.
Ghost Rider opens to theatres on February
16th.
For the movie poster, trailers, stills, video journals, set pics, movie info and synopsis,
go to the Ghost Rider
Movie Page.
Stay tuned for updates.
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