I’ll confess to actually really liking the original “Ghost Rider” (it wasn’t a masterpiece or anything but it was good). I don’t normally like gothic style movies but somehow it managed to work in favour of “Ghost Rider” as it brought the character from the pages of the comics to a whole new dimension of entertainment. This one abandons a good plot, comedy, good acting and throws in mindless and poorly done action scenes as a substitute.

In “Spirit Of Vengeance”, Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage “Con Air”) is hiding out in Eastern Europe but then he is called upon to stop the Devil from passing his mind to his earthly son.

Nicolas Cage is poor this time around as Johnny Blaze and lacks the humour featured in the first one. Ghost Rider himself is boring this time around. A new coat of paint for our hero doesn’t make him shine. The character Nadya (Violante Placido “The American”) was a boring character. The bad guys were horrendous this time (and they weren’t brilliant in the first one). Most of the characters really disappointed me and none of them feel anything more than two dimensional.

This film wasn’t funny, the action was badly done, the acting was poor despite it featured some big names, the plot was awful and the special effects felt a downgrade from the original. The film also lacks the great gothic style that seemed to make “Ghost Rider” for me at least an enjoyable experience. This is the sort of film you’d recommend to someone you don’t like because you want to see them waste their money on it to make it seem to serve some purpose that isn’t negative. This film is proof that filmmakers are sometimes blissfully unaware of how bad the movies they make actually are and I hope that this will teach them to get their act together.