Ghost Rider
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) | Release Date: February 16, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
9
Negative:
10
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60
Film ThreatZach Haddad
As a film on its own, Ghost Rider isn't amazing, but it is definitely a decent popcorn flick. As an entry into the superhero genre, Ghost Rider is only a couple notches above the "X-Men: The Last Stand." Read full review
60
EmpireWilliam Thomas
A blockbuster that offers enough quirky pleasures to feel fresh and unpredictable. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesMichael Ordona
It's entertaining to watch ol' hothead do his thing with his fiery chain and his "penance stare," but for a comic book with a rebel spirit, the adaptation feels obediently conventional. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
With its cheesy special effects and blasphemously imbecilic storyline, one wonders whether the celluloid version of Ghost Rider will find an audience. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
What sticks is a colorful, mesmerizing, at times breathtaking mess - it's like watching a bonfire on acid - and what slides to the floor is, well, you probably don't want to know. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
The story doesn't arc so much as unspool like a stretch of desert highway, but the Ghost Rider is such a powerful amalgam of hot-rod iconography that this is still fairly watchable. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
iInstead of a buoyant, imaginative superhero movie on the order of Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" films or Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns," we get a lumbering, paint-by-numbers origin story. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
So much flatter than it was on the comic-book page. Read full review
40
Village VoiceNathan Lee
Johnson's a hardcore, dime-store fanboy, not a revisionist-minded fauxteur like Christopher Nolan or Bryan Singer, and his giddy, goofball affection for the material sustained my goodwill until his underdeveloped grasp of form and rhythm let it slip away. Read full review
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