Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)

All Critics (113) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (93) | DVD (10)

This is a boring movie. The over-the-top outlandishness can't disguise that the whole 95 minutes represent one big snooze-fest.

February 19, 2012 Full Review | Comments (6)

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

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.

February 18, 2012 Full Review | Comments (13)

Elizabeth Weitzman

New York Daily News

Top Critic

Spirit of Vengeance is weighted down for long stretches in the middle, as it starts to treat its own religious hokum plotline with undue seriousness.

February 18, 2012 Full Review

Andrew Barker

Variety

Top Critic

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.

February 17, 2012 Full Review | Comments (9)

Linda Barnard

Toronto Star

Top Critic

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.

February 17, 2012 Full Review | Comments (2)

Neil Genzlinger

New York Times

Top Critic

That mix of admirable restraint and unabashed pandering makes Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance a guilty pleasure, if not the most wholesome treat.

February 17, 2012 Full Review | Comments (8)

Rafer Guzman

Newsday

Top Critic

A schlocky, derivative, and incredibly ridiculous sequel.

December 17, 2012 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is too awful and cheesy to recommend to anyone, even the most diehard superhero fans.

October 12, 2012 Full Review

Christian Law

We Got This Covered

This is destined for a place at the bottom of the pile come the end of the year, but in all honesty, did anyone really expect anything good out of a movie about a guy with a flaming skull going around killing people?

September 16, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

In terms of stupid, dumb, no-brainer comic-book films, they don't come much stupider, dumber and no-brainier than this.

September 13, 2012 Full Review

Matt Looker

TheShiznit.co.uk

There are flashes of Neveldine/Taylor's self-deprecating sense of humor also, but even those can't overcome a story that's completely inert and uninvolving.

September 4, 2012 Full Review

Eric Melin

Scene-Stealers.com

As a B-grade horror/action hybrid, and the lowered expectations that come with that description, it's a very fun experience.

August 22, 2012 Full Review

William Bibbiani

CraveOnline

An atrocious sequel...

June 14, 2012 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Ghost Rider only excels when it embraces the gonzo direction of directors Neveldine and Taylor. Sadly though, the film seems to be pumping its brakes more than riding with a vengeance.

June 12, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

Save your money. Read "The Devil and Daniel Webster" or "Doctor Faustus." Listen to Robert Johnson. Or just be a decent human being, so you'll never have the devil to pay.

June 2, 2012 Full Review

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

Only a marginal improvement over the leaden first film, with Idris Elba providing a number of the film's few bright spots.

May 27, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

All things being equal, I would rather have seen Crank 3D.

April 30, 2012 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

Campy humor and excellent visual effects help star and ever perplexing Nicholas Cage, who once won an Oscar.

April 16, 2012 Full Review

Bruce Bennett

Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

"The prophecy says the ritual will take place ..." tells you that this movie was entirely dictated by location. The ritual could take place in the middle of Times Square and it would still end up looking like it was shot in an anonymous Romanian nightclub.

April 6, 2012 Full Review

Adam Lippe

Examiner.com

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.

March 23, 2012 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

An unwanted sequel to one of the worst comic book films ever made blasts onto the screen with such assaultive energy that memories of its predecessor are incinerated from your brain.

March 17, 2012 Full Review | Comments (3)

Tom Clift

Moviedex

Beyond the action there isn't much going on. It has a dud plot that attempts to reboot the story of the character. Cage revels in his own insanity and you have to wonder if the guy gives a crap anymore.

March 17, 2012 Full Review

Cameron Williams

The Popcorn Junkie

Astonishing effects, brilliant production design, great locations, relentless pace and some wry lines well delivered give the film excellent entertainment value

March 17, 2012 Full Review | Comments (13)

Andrew L. Urban

Urban Cinefile

Although Spirit of Vengeance never reaches the madcap heights of Neveldine/Taylor's unhinged Crank, it's an inventive, wonderfully weird, and surprisingly focused one-shot comic-book adventure.

March 15, 2012 Full Review

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

Every action scene serves as an oasis, sparsely scattered in the desert of B-movie dullness.

March 15, 2012 Full Review

Liam Maguren

Flicks.co.nz

"Ghost Rider" is coming to suck out your soul. Or, at least $14 from your wallet. Paul Chambers, CNN.

March 11, 2012 Full Review

Paul Chambers

CNNRadio

• 1. Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider: He's scraping at the door!
  – Submitted by Matthew H (47 days ago)
• 1. Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider: It doesn't matter how far you run. There are some demons you just can't escape. [flames roar]
  – Submitted by James W (8 months ago)
• 1. Roarke: Changing the defining terms of an agreement is something we just don't do.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (8 months ago)
• 1. Moreau: I can still see the light.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (8 months ago)
• 1. Roarke: You! Worst fucking deal I've ever made.
  – Submitted by Matthew D (9 months ago)
• 1. Nadya: I'm not afraid of you.
  2. Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider: Yeah? Well, you should be.
  – Submitted by Jed G (10 months ago)

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