Valentine’s Day is normally looked at a day of love, giving gifts to that special person and cuddling up with some romantic music, a box of chocolates and getting ready to knock boots. That is for suckers, the real way to prove your love, is to sell your soul to the devil so that they may stay alive. This Valentine’s Day Johnny Blaze will do just that.

Ghost Rider, set to release on February 16, 2007, is the story of Johnny Blaze (Nicholas Cage), a stunt motorcyclist, who sells his soul to the devil a.k.a. Mephisto (Peter Fonda) and becomes taken over by the “supernatural spirit of vengeance” Ghost Rider in order to save the life of his true love Roxanne Simpson (Eva Mendez). When Mephisto’s son, Blackheart (Wes Bentley) tries to over throw his father and create a new hell, Mephisto charges Johnny to do battle with him. He is Johnny Blaze by day and Ghost Rider by night.

Ghost Rider is a classic Marvel comic turned to a movie and hopes to rise to the top of the mountains of the X-Men Trilogy and Spiderman Trilogy and not sink to the depths of the sea with The Puinsher and The Incredible Hulk. Only time will tell, with Spiderman 3 coming out this summer, will Cage do what Jackman and Maguire did or fail like his Face Off counterpart Travolta?

Looking at the trailer the movie actually looks pretty good, it reminds me of Spawn. The role is pretty deep and sad so Cage will fit perfectly into is with his typical over acting. If that fails, you still have Eva Mendez to look at. As it stands right now I give Ghost Rider an E+ (that’s my rating system until I get an official one. E++ This can be an event, E+ Go see it, E If you have time, E- wait for the DVD, E– Wait for it to come on Fox.)

Later