10 Worst Superhero Movies Of The 2010s

It's Nic Cage doing what he does best. How did this fail? For that exact reason.

Cage's over-the-top facial expressions are on full display in this sequel to 2007's underwhelming Ghost Rider, as he tries to contain the demon within like he's trying to hold in his diarrhoea while feeling strangely aroused by the experience (I'm not a poet, that's the best comparison I could come up with).

Spirit of Vengeance follows Johnny Blaze wanting out of the Ghost Rider curse, while protecting the son of the devil and, in Cage's words, "the devil's baby-momma" from religious zealots and the devil's henchman Blackout, who has the power to decay everything he touches apart from his own clothes apparently.

Despite Nicholas Cage's best attempts to entertain us in the way he usually does, the film is exceptionally dull with laughable scripting, gimmicky 3D effects and stylistic choices that do not work in a film like this. For example, Ghost Rider spends far too much of his time attempting to look cool and intimidating before actually attacking anyone, there's an extended prologue that's somewhat played for laughs with Cage's delivery, there's that scene on the bike where Johnny is trying not to turn into the demon giving us every mug under the sun. It's just a film that has no idea what it wants to be and becomes near-unwatchable.