Preview Impressions: Ghost Rider

Posted on January 29, 2007 
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ghostrider.jpgI like to rate a movie based on the preview, then compare the preview rating with my final rating after seeing the whole movie. A critical element of this is how closely the content of the trailer represents the content of the movie, of course, so there is a lot of room for error. With that in mind, I took a look at the Ghost Rider trailer and preview. The movie hits screens on February 16, 2007.

Ghost Rider strikes me as such a peripheral comic hero and I know so little about him that I’m a bit skeptical of the movie from the start. He also strikes me as a hero that is hard to relate to; even as a kid who read lots of comics, Ghost Rider just never grabbed me. The trailer doesn’t kindle my interest much, although it does explain some of his background. The preview goes into more detail on the story, and this gives me some hope that the movie will be decent.

There are lots of shots of flaming motorcycles and flaming skeletons, which are always a plus, I guess, but the way the trailer and preview focus on these scenes makes me think that the movie is going to be a mush of mediocre special effects involving fire, with little story, acting, and content to support them. Dialog and acting seem weak, outside of Nicholas Cage, who has enough skill as an actor to dramatically improve the movie. It does have the beautiful Eva Mendes in it, so that helps, but when I see snippets of her acting, I’m getting flashbacks to Cindy Crawford in Fair Game. After watching the trailer, I had a bad feeling about this one. The preview improves things some, but overall this looks to be in the 40-range for an overall score. I’d love to be wrong, but I’d guess this is going to be a mediocre movie.

Prediction: 46 (Unremarkable)

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One Response to “Preview Impressions: Ghost Rider”

  1. Kaboom Review » Review: Ghost Rider on March 4th, 2007 9:36 pm

    […] Comments Late in January, I watched the preview for Ghost Rider and predicted that the movie would score about 40 once I reviewed it. I think I hit the mark on many of my concerns about the film, but somehow the total sum of the parts wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. Somehow, someway, Ghost Rider crawled over its problems to moderately entertain me for a couple of hours. […]

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