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Too dark and long to be considered a silly, fun, little guilty pleasure, but too self-concious and non-sensical to be realistic. I think another major problem is that it aims for 'quirk" and ends up with "cheese". Don't get me wrong, I know I bitch about "effects-driven" a lot, but sometimes it works fine, it's just that Ghost Rider has absolutely no staying power, there's really nothing to it that would make me recommend it to a friend.

Ghost Rider strikes me as the sort of comic that didn't need a whole lot of chopping to translate well to the big screen, unfortunately, director Mark Steven Johnson neglected all that, and went for a full on self-made, effects-drive flop.

Choc full of wannabe Western-isms and expected cheese, Ghost Rider is a foray into not-a-whole-lot.