But, we can't put all the blame on him – the character was already badly written by the screenwriters who didn't know how to make him interesting. Nicolas Cage also didn't help at all as he was not convincing on what he was doing. It was totally redundant, silly and cliché – actually kind of ambiguous because the characters were not well explained or explored - things seemed too much up in the air leading the audience to nowhere. Those 'blockbusters' are not supposed to have a story with philosophical meanings as they are made aiming pure entertainment, but this one actually didn't even have a story. It looked like a low budget film – a poor visual with only one or two exciting scenes - if I can call them exciting. It didn't even look like a big Hollywood production – the special effects and the action sequences were sometimes absurd going to the ridiculous. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, however, is even worse. He returns to the Caretaker, who tells him of his predecessor Carter Slade, a Texas Ranger who hid the contract of San Venganza.The first Ghost Rider was already a disappointment – compared to other Marvel adaptations to the cinema, it was far under the average. After brief imprisonment for murders Blackheart committed, Johnny kills the air angel Abigor and escapes from the police.
Unconvinced, she walks away in disbelief. Roxanne comes to visit before leaving town, and Johnny reveals himself as the Devil’s bounty hunter. At home, Johnny tries to control his firepower. Johnny leaves to find Roxanne, who’s reporting the previous night’s events on the news. He assures Johnny that what happened was real and will happen again, especially at night, when he is near an evil soul. The next day, he meets a man called the Caretaker, who knows about the Ghost Rider’s history. He then uses the Penance Stare, a power that causes mortals to feel all the pain they have caused others, searing their soul, on a street thug. Johnny transforms into the Ghost Rider, his flesh burning off his skeleton, and kills the earth angel Gressil. Mephistopheles makes Johnny the new Ghost Rider and offers to return his soul if he defeats Blackheart. He convinces her to attend a dinner date. He runs into his former sweetheart Roxanne Simpson, now a news reporter, whom he abandoned after his father’s death. Mephistopheles’ son Blackheart comes to Earth and seeks aid from the Hidden (three fallen angels bonded with the elements of air, earth, and water) to find the lost contract of San Venganza.In 2007, Johnny has become a famous stunt motorcycle rider. Johnny accuses Mephistopheles of causing his father’s death, but Mephistopheles considers his side of the contract fulfilled and promises to see Johnny again.Ghost Rider 2007. The next morning, Johnny awakens to discover the cancer cured, but his father dies from burns sustained in a stunt accident. In 1986, Mephistopheles reaches out to 17-year-old Johnny Blaze, offering to cure his father’s cancer in exchange for Johnny’s soul. Seeing that the agreement would give Mephistopheles the power to bring hell on Earth, the Rider refuses and escapes with it. The demon Mephistopheles sends his bounty hunter of the damned, the Ghost Rider, to retrieve the contract of San Venganza for control of a thousand corrupt souls.