Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

James Berardinelli / ReelViews
Feb 19, 2012
This is a boring movie. The over-the-top outlandishness can't disguise that the whole 95 minutes represent one big snooze-fest.

Elizabeth Weitzman / New York Daily News
Feb 18, 2012
Whether Cage is still paying off castles, appeasing the IRS, or rebuilding his comic book collection, it's clear he's decided, for now, to trade his talent for cold, hard cash.

Andrew Barker / Variety
Feb 18, 2012


Linda Barnard / Toronto Star
Feb 17, 2012
Shot in Romania and Turkey, the scenery is terrific and gives you something to watch other than this confusing mess. Johnny Blaze, you're just a candle in the wind, mate.

Neil Genzlinger / New York Times
Feb 17, 2012
The film, though, has some redeeming qualities, including the presence of Idris Elba as the obligatory good guy, who encourages Johnny to get Danny into the protective custody of a religious order.

Rafer Guzman / Newsday
Feb 17, 2012
That mix of admirable restraint and unabashed pandering makes Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance a guilty pleasure, if not the most wholesome treat.

Adam Markovitz / Entertainment Weekly
Feb 17, 2012
Like the first Ghost Rider movie, this one burns plenty of rubber trying to swerve around plot holes and thinly written characters.

Mark Olsen / Los Angeles Times
Feb 17, 2012
Like a laboratory experiment on how often a movie can spin from bad to good and back again.

Kyle Smith / New York Post
Feb 17, 2012
Ordinarily I'd be into the idea of seeing Nicolas Cage's face burn, but alas, "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" is not a documentary.

Nick Pinkerton / Village Voice
Feb 17, 2012
The standards of all involved are so obviously floorboard-high, there's not much to say after the lights come up other than one of Blaze's "one-liners": "So, that happened."

Peter Travers / Rolling Stone
Feb 17, 2012
One look at the dreadful mess that is Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance will turn your whisper into a primal Cage scream: MAKE THIS MOVIE STOP!

Glenn Kenny / MSN Movies
Feb 17, 2012
What more would one want? Well, actually, quite a bit, but this movie ain't got much more than that. Still, as noisesome entertainments go, it 'brings' that thing we sometimes call 'it.'

Roger Moore / Dallas Morning News
Feb 17, 2012
A goofy, gonzo thrill ride, "Vengeance" is a bad movie sequel so bad it's good - a bad movie that's almost a great bad movie.

William Goss / Film.com
Feb 17, 2012
An aggressively mediocre improvement on the first film.

John DeFore / Hollywood Reporter
Feb 17, 2012
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance nudges its obscure hero's mythology forward a bit without seeming to care much how it gets there.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Cast:

• Ciaran Hinds
• Idris Elba
• Johnny Whitworth
• Nicolas Cage
• Violante Placido