Ghost Rider, another tragedy by the writer/director Mark Steven Johnson. I don't know what fool thought it would be a good idea to PAY Mark Steven Johnson...anything!!! for his services...but damn! And I try not to curse here.
Let's start with the obvious; Ghost Rider is 2 hours and 8 minutes long.It is an epic length, even for a 2007 movie. But longer isn't better, and this movie is proof of this.This movie would have been 10x stronger if it were only an hour and a half...and it could have been!! SPOILER! (although do you really care?) The movie opens with a backstory of an earlier Ghost Rider; later in the movie, Sam Elliott tells Nick Cage the same story; if these two scenes were combined into one, it would have cut off 8 minutes or so, to the movie. There are at least two (or rather 4) more scenes this could have been done to. This movie could have easily been 1.5 hours.
Even though this movie is an origin story it still feels heavily, and I mean HEAVILY, weighted int emotions. I don't mean character building/developing emotions, I mean unnecessary, sappy emotions. There's some cool action scenes, but they represent 15% of the movie...so much is emotions here, emotions there...
Eh? perhaps I'm a cynic.
The basic plot isn't strong. It's very faustian, but drags that out, as opposed to enriching it (like Phantom of the Paradise).
You better like Ghost Rider, if you think you'll enjoy this movie.
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