In this sober-minded Vietnam allegory, Stallone plays Johnny Blaze, a highway patrolman left for dead by corrupt members of his own police force. A shell of man with nothing besides his motorcycle, Blaze sets off to find the men who killed him. And, perhaps, he is also trying to find himself. (Later followed by the far more successful sequel Spirit of Vengeance: Ghost Rider, Part 2, wherein Blaze rides his motorcycle to Vietnam and explodes everything.)