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Ghost Rider Crashes on Takeoff |
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Ghost Rider, staring Nicolas Cage, was plummeted by critics who said the movie had too many bad jokes, pun, and bad dialogue.
Sony Pictures Entertainment didn’t screen Ghost Rider in advance for critics, which is usually a bad sign. It was. Here is a sampling of critic comments that tell the rest of the story:
“Rarely in Hollywood have so many labored so hard with so much time and such financial resources to fill a movie screen with as vast an array of spiritual gibberish, literary poppycock and pure flummery as Mark Steven Johnson's Ghost Rider. But I overpraise…”
~ Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
“Placed alongside such primetime Sony/Marvel Comics movies as the "Spider-Man" franchise, "Ghost Rider" is strictly matinee material. Though the superhero's fans have long awaited his close-up, the Devil's bounty hunter -- complete with a burning skull for a head and a killer motorcycle in flames --materializes in a movie that never measures up to his infernal potential…”
~ Robert Koehler, Variety
“…Ghost Rider was not, naturally, pre-screened for critics, making it the second straight film (following the remake of "The Wicker Man”) starring Oscar-winner Cage to be released with the stink of a loser attached. Though Cage has long prided himself on making risky choices, he may want to peruse his scripts a little more closely to divine the difference between offbeat and off-the-charts-bad.”
~Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
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