If only Nicholas Cage would choose his films more carefully – one wishes, after seeing 'Ghost Rider: The Spirit Of Vengeance'. The film can't be termed just bad - the first Ghost Rider was bad, the second part is worse; in fact it is quite pathetic for a mainstream film from a Hollywood superstar.

A kid selling his soul to the Devil to save his father; his double life as a celebrated bike stunt man and the lonely, helpless Ghost Rider; his desperation to lift his curse of being enslaved to the devil… the story had never struck a chord with the audience even in the first outing. But the first Ghost Rider offered a visual treat, like the steady sequence showing the gradual transformation of the human form into a skeleton on fire, complete with the bike and chain. The second Ghost Rider, the 'Spirit Of Vengeance', feels more like a revenge on the people who turned out to watch the movie, not having learnt from their mistake of watching the first. Which goes to say that the technology used here is below par too.

Johnny Blaze, or the Ghost Rider, played by Nicholas Cage is on the run in a mountain in Eastern Europe to get a grip on the hunger of being the Rider to reap wicked souls. The Devil has apparently had a son Danny (Fergus Riordan) with a mortal woman Nadya (Violante Placid). The Devil, being in human form, needs the child to transfer his powers to a young body so that the powers stay alive from father to son. A secret church wants the boy saved from the clutches of the Devil. Moreau (Idris Elba) is a loyal warrior of the church, who seeks out Johnny Blaze and in return for saving the boy; he offers to lift the curse. Johnny would do anything to get rid of the curse and so decides to become the Ghost Rider for one last time...

The human Nicholas Cage in the movie, certainly seems to be a far cry from what he could be. Johnny Whitworth who plays the antagonist Ray Carrigen/Blackout,  chosen by the Devil (Ciaran Hinds) to capture Danny has given a decent performance as the main villain. The rest of the cast has nothing special to offer in a film with an ill conceived story line, lackluster script , and poor choice of locations and certainly poor use of technology.