Ghost Rider
Wes Bentley’sGhost Ridervillain Blackheart just might be the lamest antagonist in a Marvel film . Nic Cage is a noted comic book fan and spent age stress to land a superhero motion picture . He was attached to Tim Burton ’s famously unmadeSuperman Livesas the rubric character reference and circle villain roles in both Joel Schumacher ’s cancelledBatman Unchainedand Sam Raimi’sSpider - Man . He in conclusion nabbed his own superhero withGhost Rider , but since the music genre was in a weird place back in 2007 , it did n’t be up to its potential .
Ghost Riderfollows Johnny Blaze , a stunt passenger who signed a contract bridge with the Devil to become his demonic H.M.S. Bounty hunter . The repugnance tone of the fabric would have better suited to an R evaluation , but the resulting PG-13 blockbuster fail to satisfy fans or audiences . A mediocre script and forgettable natural process were just some of the liberal issues withGhost passenger , but coop returned for another swing music with 2011’sGhost Rider : Spirit Of Vengeance . cobalt - directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor ( Crank ) helm the subsequence / soft reboot , which had serious action and a darker tone but still suffered from handwriting and floor problem .
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coop later ruled out the possibleness of returning forGhost Rider 3and the rights later went back to Marvel , who introduced the case inAgents Of S.H.I.E.L.D , play by Gabriel Luna . One swelled problem with the 2007Ghost Rideris that the primal villain , Wes Bentley ’s ( charge : Impossible - Fallout ) Blackheart , never feels like much of a scourge . This demon is the son of Mephistopheles ( Peter Fonda ) and want to override his don and take over Hell .
Ghost Rider is summoned by Mephistopheles to bring Blackheart back and has to combat his demonic partner in crime too . It ’s a long - standing antic that Marvel villains , especially for some major MCU entries , were kind of lame compared to the heroes . Thor : The Dark World’sMalekith the Accursed orAnt - Man’sYellowjacket are among the sapless , but outside of the MCU , Julian McMahon ’s Victor von Doom from 2005’sFantastic Fouror Venom fromSpider - Man 3are also held in low esteem .
Even with those model , Wes Bentley ’s Blackheart just might be the weak . For a knock-down demon with the mightiness to stamp out with a single touch , the fiber is plainly never jeopardise , even when the plastic film seek to dial up his menace with some CGI satanic feature of speech . While Bentley is a fine worker and has done good body of work elsewhere , it feels like he ’s cruising through the part , and only really comes to life in the present moment when he ’s hamming it up . The Rider himself comes off as more baleful , meaning there is n’t much of a abreaction when he in conclusion work over Blackheart in the finale . Even ifGhost Rider’sBlackheart was a great scoundrel the motion picture would still have issues , but his lameness emphatically does n’t help .
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