Donâ€™t. See. This. Movie. If your going to take anything away from this review, let it be that. I donâ€™t know what happened to Nic Cage. I mean he was never a phenomenal actor, but he was enjoyable at least. The Rock, National Treasure, Moonstruck… these were all fun movies. Maybe he really has just gone off the deep end. Completely Bonkers. His performance in this, well I suppose we have to call it a movie but it barley qualifies, was awful. Not that anyone was good in it, but he really stood out.

Plus, the story was just garbage strung together to give the semblance of cohesive storytelling. In all actuality it was just action scenes tied together with string and a bit of duct tape. Not surprising from the duo that brought us Crank and Gamer. Neveldine and Taylor strike me as Frat boys who never realized that ideas that are thought up during a kegger ought not to be made into feature films.

They must be stopped, and Nic Cage needs Jesus. The effects were sloppy at best, basically whenever they wanted to CG a scene but ran out of time and money they put a lot of fire on top of it to obscure the laziness. Honestly I couldnâ€™t tell you what the point of the movie was, I guess it was just Cage getting the studio to pay him a few million to act like a crazy person with a death wish. Not hard for him. But he must be pretty persuasive, because if memory servesâ€¦..The firstÂ GhostÂ Rider was bad too. What is going on!

Conclusion: avoid like the plague!

Until next time…

See you at the theater!