Ghost Rider: Spirito di Vendetta 3D backdrop
Ghost Rider: Spirito di Vendetta 3D poster

GHOST RIDER: SPIRITO DI VENDETTA 3D

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

2011 AE HMDB
dicembre 10, 2011

Johnny Blaze, funambolo motociclista trasformato in spirito, è ancora alle prese con la maledizione che lo ha reso cacciatore di taglie per il diavolo. Tuttavia, dopo l'incontro con il leader di un gruppo di monaci ribelli, Johnny sembra disposto a tutto pur di salvare un ragazzino dalle grinfie del demonio e liberarsi così una volta per tutte dalla maledizione che lo perseguita.

Cast

👍 1 👎 🔥 🧻 👑 (1)

Commenti

Commenti (0)

Troupe

Produzione: Ari Arad (Producer)Steven Paul (Producer)Stan Lee (Executive Producer)Ashok Amritraj (Producer)Mark Steven Johnson (Executive Producer)Michael De Luca (Producer)Avi Arad (Producer)E. Bennett Walsh (Executive Producer)Gary Foster (Executive Producer)Maya Fukuzawa (Executive Producer)
Sceneggiatura: David S. Goyer (Screenplay)Scott M. Gimple (Screenplay)Seth Hoffman (Screenplay)
Musica: David Sardy (Original Music Composer)
Fotografia: Brandon Trost (Director of Photography)

RECENSIONI (1)

Roberto Giacomelli
Johnny Blaze, ex stuntman trasformato nel demoniaco Ghost Rider a causa di un patto con il Diavolo per salvare la vita di suo padre, si è ora auto-esiliato in Europa dell'Est, dove fa di tutto per reprimere la maledizione che lo affligge. Qui però viene raggiunto da Moreau, un monaco guerriero che gli chiede di proteggere Danny, un bambino "speciale" sulle cui tracce è stato scatenato Ray Carrigan, braccio destro di Roarke, ovvero il Diavolo artefice del patto con Johnny. Dopo l'iniziale reticenza, Johnny si lascia convincere a scatenare ancora una volta il Ghost Rider che è in lui. "Ghost Rider" diretto da Mark Steven Johnson nel 2007 non è stato proprio quello che può definirsi un successo. Rientrato a malapena nelle spese di produzione, stroncato all'unanimità dalla critica e praticamente disconosciuto dai fan del fumetto Marvel creato da Friedrich, Ploog e Thomas. Visti tali risultati e fermamente decisi nello sfruttare un personaggio dalle indubbie potenzialità, quelli della Sony hanno deciso di rifare "Ghost Rider" prima che scadessero i diritti di sfruttamento del personaggio. Così si decide un film a metà strada tra il reboot e il sequel (con pendenza verso quest'ultima scelta), un pò come era accaduto per altri personaggi Marvel come il Punitore ("The Punisher" con Tom Jane diventa "The Punisher: Zona di guerra" con Ray Stevenson) e Hulk ("Hulk" di Ang Lee proseguito in "L'incredibile Hulk" di Louis Leterrier). A differenza dei suddetti titoli, però, "Ghost Rider: Spirito di vendetta", pur rinarrando in modo diversificato le origini del teschio di fuoco (attraverso suggestive tavole semi-animate), conserva l'attore che gli aveva dato volto nel capitolo precedente: l'imperterrito Nicholas Cage. Durante e a fine visione, "Ghost Rider: Spirito di vendetta" lascia interdetti proprio come era accaduto nel precedente film, ma per motivi completamente differenti. Stavolta alla regia ci sono Mark Neveldine e Brian Taylor, ovvero due innovatori in campo action movie, i tizi che hanno firmato i due magnifici "Crank" con Jason Statham e il piuttosto riuscito "Gamer". Insomma, gente tosta che a nominarla già fa partire il film con 3 punti di vantaggio. Però qualche cosa deve essere andata storta e forse la produzione ha tenuto i due "bad guys" alla corda perchè se da una parte le scene d'azione presentano quella forza adrenalinica che caratterizza lo stile di Neveldine e Taylor, dall'altra la portata politicamente scorretta e folle che fino ad ora hanno elargito i due nei loro precedenti film e che si prestava alla perfezione per una storia di Ghost Rider, qui si riduce, se vogliamo, solamente in una scena in cui il motociclista demoniaco urina come se stringesse tra le mani un lanciafiamme. Buono il look generale della pellicola e del Ghost Rider in particolare, molto più dark in confronto al film precedente e virato in chiave horror (inoltre nella versione italiana Ghost Rider ha una voce dignitosa, ben lontana dalla vocina all'elio del film di Johnson). Almeno un’intuizione, inoltre, piacerà al pubblico del cinema di paura, ovvero l'evoluzione del personaggio interpretato da Johnny Withworth ("Gamer"; "Limitless") che da cattivo dal look simil Kurt Russell, si trasforma in un demone che manda in putrefazione qualunque cosa tocchi, esseri umani compresi. Male, anzi molto male, la sceneggiatura curata da David S. Goyer, Scott M. Gimple e Seth Hoffman, che sviluppa in maniera poco interessante un soggetto che già di suo non ha mordente. Inizialmente sembra che si voglia dare importanza al conflitto interiore di Johnny Blaze, che soffre per la sua maledizione e cerca di reprimere il Ghost Rider. Ma questo doveroso elemento introspettivo viene abbandonato in men che non si dica e dimenticato fino alla fine del secondo atto, quando, in maniera del tutto gratuita, Johnny torna a tormentarsi. Inoltre "Ghost Rider: Spirito di vendetta" ha delle cadute di ritmo incredibilmente evidenti, con punti morti che riescono a rendere noioso un film che difficilmente potrebbe esserlo. La storia - esilissima - fatica a procedere, i personaggi non sono affatto caratterizzati (con l'unica eccezione del Monroe di Idris Elba) e paradossalmente il Ghost Rider sta in scena troppo poco. Alla fine Nicholas Cage non riesce a fare la differenza e il resto del cast risulta un pò spaesato, pur annoverando nomi come Ciaràn Hinds ("The Woman in Black") nel ruolo del Diavolo e una bellissima Violante Placido ("The American") in quello di Nadya, la madre del bambino braccato. In un ruolo di contorno c'è anche il redivivo Christopher Lambert, che fa un monaco tatuato dalla testa ai piedi. Doveroso segnalare l'assoluta inutilità del 3D, che in una conversione forse frettolosa non riesce ad esaltare ne la profondità ne il rilievo, dando la sensazione, dunque, di aver visto il film comunque in due dimensioni. "Ghost Rider: Spirito di vendetta" non riesce a dare la giusta rivincita a un personaggio che al cinema appare un pò sfortunato. I fan del fumetto forse troveranno un Ghost Rider più fedele a quello cartaceo, ma il film è debole tanto quanto quello che l'aveva preceduto.
👍 👎 🔥 🧻 👑

Commenti

Commenti (0)

Dove Guardare

Streaming

Mediaset Infinity Mediaset Infinity
Infinity Selection Amazon Channel Infinity Selection Amazon Channel

Noleggio

Apple TV Apple TV
Timvision Timvision

Acquista

Apple TV Apple TV
Timvision Timvision

RECENSIONI DALLA COMMUNITY (7)

TopKek

TopKek

Loved the first Ghost Rider, this one was TERRIBLE

To be honest, i was really looking forward to see this movie, the trailer itself was eye-candy and highly exaggerated.The story is as bad as the actors' performance. Nicholas Cage is going a very , very bad road, his lasts movies , ''season of the witch'' and ''drive angry'' were as thin and dreadful as this one. The action in this movie was unjustified and plain crazy bad, the way ''Blaze'' was written, the laughable dialogues and dumb facial expression of Cage didn't helped at all. The 3D effect on this movie is overrated, everything is too much and fake. Idris Elba was probably the only reason why i went to watch this but even then his role was thin and futile, On the whole, it's messy , funny and plain bad, i pray to god there is not a third one

Dark Jedi

4 /10

Christ what kind of bum did they get to write and/or produce this one.

I really, really liked the first Ghost Rider movie. This one is nowhere near that one. Sure, Nicolas Cage is doing Johnny Blaze again and they even got Christopher Lambert to play an old priest but the movie is just poorly implemented. The Ghost Rider is actually not really appearing that much and when he does, the special effects look cheap and not at all as cool as in the first movie.

It doesn’t help that, when he first appears in the movie, he gets shot down by a simple “human” gun and ends up in hospital. This nonsense about, first trying to hide out in some obscure place a ’la The Hulk (been there done that), and then trying to get rid of his powers and afterwards taking on Satan without them is just ruining the fun. The film totally lacks the spirit of the first one.

As I said, I’m rather disappointed. It’s really a shame that they screwed this one so badly because now we probably won’t get another one even though they made a lame attempt at the end of the film to leave a door open for that.

Wuchak

Wuchak

7 /10

Wild sequel

The first Ghost Rider film from 2007 was fairly faithful to the comic. When Ghost Rider came out in 1972 it was more of a general idea than a fully fleshed-out premise. This was clear as the stories changed from writer to writer and one artist to another. Ideas were added as the years progressed, like the "penance stare" and Blaze's growing awareness of the former angel of justice, Zarathos. The book was canceled in 1983 after a ten-year run. In 1990 a new version of Ghost Rider was introduced with a different character and it ran eight years.

The first film was an amalgam of the ideas presented in these two series, mostly the first, and struck me as the comic-book come to life. Really, the only thing that was disappointing was the villain, Blackheart, who was seriously scary in the comics, but not so much in the movie.

"Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" (2012) is a worthy follow-up with Nicolas Cage returning as Johnny Blaze. The story switches to Europe and, more specifically, Romania and Turkey, where the film was shot.

This time the devil is played by Ciarán Hinds, rather than Peter Fonda, which isn't a big deal considering Satan could presumably take different physical forms. The devil's main minion is played by Johnny Whitworth, a different character than Blackheart from the original, albeit similar. The hot female is Violante Placido, who's arguably an improvement over Eva Mendes. Another positive is the rockin' soundtrack.

I don't mind the story switching to eastern Europe since the locations are excellent, particularly the amazing cave-monastery, but there are other changes that I'm not so crazy about, like the charred biker jacket of the Ghost Rider, but this is just a matter of taste; I simply prefer the cool biker "costume" as opposed to the dirtbag biker look. A more significant negative is the overactive camera that's annoying and draws attention to itself (hopefully this fad has run its course). But there are enough dramatic parts to balance out the quick-edited thrills; besides, you get used to it

BOTTOM LINE: "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" is a quality sequel that interestingly fleshes out the nature of the spirit that possesses Johnny blaze (I'd say more, but I don't want to spoil it). People who claim the film's more "serious" and "faithful" to the comic are off the mark. It has the same quasi-serious, cartoony-horror vibe as the first film, with glimpses of humor. As radical as the first movie was (in a comic booky way), this one ups the ante and is the better for it. Unfortunately it's marred by the hyperactive camera and quick editing.

The film runs 1 hour, 35 minutes.

GRADE: B

Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

2 /10

It's better to forget this movie.

As I said before, in the review I wrote for “Ghost Rider”, I'm not a fan or even an expert in comics, so I'll ignore the source material and focus on the movie. I'm not the right person to say whether or not it's a reliable adaptation. However, I can already say that it is a bad movie. With all its weaknesses, the first film was a work of art when compared to this unfortunate piece.

The biggest problem with this movie is that it's a sequel designed to make money. Producers and studios didn't even bother to try to disguise their greed, and rubbed their hands at the good box office obtained. Poorly received by critics, the target of numerous criticisms from the public, but a relative success at the box office, the initial film paved the way for this sequel, which wouldn't be bad if it was a good sequel. Unfortunately, almost the entire cast and crew of the first film (except for Nicolas Cage) is absent from this project, which adopts a totally different visual and dramatic language from the previous film and, thus, cuts any hypothetical continuity.

The script is mediocre and is based on a fight between Johnny Blaze and especially powerful evil forces that want to kidnap a child, supposedly the son of the Devil, key-figure to Armageddon. Simple, extremely clichéd, very poorly crafted and poorly developed, it's a script worthy of a 70's B-movie. All the dense atmosphere and something sinister we saw in the initial film is totally absent, having been replaced by something lighter, "hard rock" and eventually designed for young adults and teenagers aspiring to be rockers. The fast pace with which everything happens favors the logical flaws, which appear in the script with the magnificence of Baroque palaces, being impossible to ignore them: the case of the monks, with medieval robes and caves coexisting with high-tech devices, weapons that would suffice for Ukraine for a year, and wine capable of getting half the Russian troops drunk, is one of the most egregious. I'd rather not talk about the ability to decompose objects and food that one of the characters will acquire at the end, and that seem to work only when it's convenient for the film.

Nicolas Cage is still present in the film, but he is the only one from the previous cast to do so, since all the others, especially Eva Mendes and Peter Fonda, dropped out of the project after reading the script. Smart decision. Cage, if not brilliant in the first film, is mediocre in the sequel, with a one-dimensional, apathetic and sleepy interpretation. Ciarán Hinds is doing well and doing a great job and very worthy, but he doesn't have much to do, while Violante Placido and Idris Elba, despite their efforts and some good moments, don't make more than an average effort.

Technically, the film bets massively on CGI, of great visual and dramatic effect, with the flames and the whole apparatus around the Rider reaching hyperbolic levels. The mine scenes are perhaps the most obvious example of what I'm saying: enough bullets for a military battle, fire everywhere, that huge machine... everything taken to the extreme for visual grandeur and spectacularity. It sometimes worked, there's no denying it, but it often feels like something out of a computer game. Set in an area of ​​Central Europe, the film was partially shot in Romania and makes good use of the beauty of the chosen locations. The sets and costumes are decent given the script and location, and the soundtrack is heavy, tiresome and uninteresting. Worse, however, are the sound effects used, as they are often clearly fake.

GenerationofSwine

GenerationofSwine

1 /10

Like the First one, this film can't find its footing. Johnny Blaze is also kind of Dan Ketch and the Ghost Rider spirit is kind of both Blaze's and Ketch's possessions.

It just doesn't work. It's pulled in two directions in character and because of that it can never find its footing. Like the old Indian saying "If you chase two rabbits you'll lose them both"

The franchise would have benefited if they chose ONE of the stories to tell, ONE of the Ghost Riders to portray. Pick Blaze, pick Ketch, it wouldn't have mattered, but two characters as fundamentally different as they are, dealing with two completely different demons meshing them together just loses focus on the story.

And beyond that, what you have left is too much CGI.

It could have been a much better film if it chose a direction. It didn't, and the story never landed because of it.

Andre Gonzales

Andre Gonzales

6 /10

Not any where close to being as good as the first. At least it still has Nicholas Cage. He's the only one from part one in this movie. It's just an ok movie.

Andre Gonzales

Andre Gonzales

6 /10

Not any where close to being as good as the first. At least it still has Nicholas Cage. He's the only one from part one in this movie. It's just an ok movie.

Recensioni fornite da TMDB