An average movie

Most of the time, it is actually pretty obvious when a movie will or should get a sequel. However, ‘Ghost Rider’ was definitely not one of those cases though... I mean, the first installment was literally trashed by the critics and it was not what you could call a  huge box-office success. Yet, to my surprise, they decided to make a sequel and even though there were some positive buzz, I wasn't really optimistic. And, indeed, it turned out to be another flop. Basically, everything about it (the cheap-ass Eastern Europe location, the script, the action scenes, Christopher Lambert,...) made it look like a straight-to-DVD job except for 2 redeeming features : Nicolas Cage and the Ghost Rider himself. Indeed, in his human form, Cage gave one of his typical weird hysterical performances and it was much appreciated but, unfortunately, since 80% of the dialogues were totally lame, it was only sporadically good. On the other hand, the Ghost Rider was indeed pretty awesome and  there was a lot of potential with such a character. Unfortnately, with this character, it is pretty much like the Hulk, basically, it is all about a guy who doesn't want to transform when the viewers don't want to watch anything else which is just rather frustrating. Anyway, to conclude, I don't think this movie was really better or worse than the first movie, it was just slightly different and I don’t think that it is really worth a look.