Directed by Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor.
★½
Silliness is the name of the game here. Nicolas Cage returns as Johnny Blaze, the motorcycle daredevil who occasionally turns into the Ghost Rider. He learns of a way to finally free himself from the Rider from a silver-eyed monk (Idris Elba), but first he must stop the Devil from taking over a boy's body.
First time around, the Devil was played by Peter Fonda. Now he's Ciaran Hinds, a step up in my book. Its actors like Hinds and Elba that made me think this sequel might be an upgrade, but it's more like an opportunity for those two to ham it up and get paid good money to do it.
Cage gets wild and crazy with the role, and he kills a lot of generic Euro-trash henchmen on the way up to his showdown with the Devil. It has CG-splashiness, and it's the most unnecessary sequel of the year. I never had any sense from anyone in the movie they were doing this for anything more than cash. It's not like they actually believed in this project, nor care if it was any good.
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