(Another switcheroo from the first movie.) Danny and his mother Nadya (the oxymoronically-named Violante Placido) have been on the run from black-SUV-driving goons out to take the kid on behalf of the creepy Roarke (Ciarán Hinds), the guy with whom Johnny once made his dark pact. (Also absent this time around are Eva Mendes as Johnny’s true love, as well as Johnny’s affection for the music of The Carpenters.) In the sequel/reboot, Johnny wants the Ghost Rider exorcised, because he has no control over the creature and cannot stop it from taking away the souls of anyone with whom it comes into contact.īoozy priest Moreau (Idris Elba) finds Johnny somewhere in Romania and offers to drive the Ghost Rider from his soul in exchange for Johnny finding young Danny (Fergus Riordan) and handing him over for safe-keeping.
That’s just one of many plot elements that “Spirit of Vengeance” chooses to ignore.
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(And you know how deals with the devil turn out.) The first movie ended with Johnny being let out of the bargain but choosing to keep his hell-born powers so that he could use them for good. In the previous “Ghost Rider” movie (and in the Marvel Comics that spawned it), stunt rider Johnny Blaze (Cage) became Satan’s errand boy as the result of a deal to save the life of Johnny’s dying father. This is a movie about a flaming skeleton that rides a motorcycle - there’s no excuse for it to be this dull. Sadly, the results of that collaboration are “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance,” which sees Neveldine and Taylor succumbing to the Curse of Cage, rendering what might have been a gloriously loony concept into a fairly pedestrian supernatural action flick shot in some of the less attractive corners of budget-friendly Eastern Europe. LOS ANGELES, Feb 17 () - If ever there was a match seemingly made in neo-grindhouse heaven, it would be a collaboration between directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the guys behind the exhilaratingly all-bets-are-off “Crank” franchise, and actor Nicolas Cage, a man determined to star in as many ludicrous B-movies as possible in a quest to make every single Academy Award voter rue the day they ever gave him an Oscar.
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