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it's not really surprising to me that most of the reviews here are polarizing. godzilla movies typically follow two paths; godzilla goes to a city and destroys stuff, or the movies more focused on a rival that godzilla has to defeat. this is the latter, which may deter some people expecting a straight up godzilla movie. that said, it does nothing new. like godzilla 1998, this is a movie is for parents to bring their kids. unlike 1998 it's dedicated to honoring the franchises style for better or worse. for example, the protagonists are flat and uninteresting. the film fails to connect the audience with the human characters, as a result everyones favorite character is godzilla, the only one to get applause for it's actions. but for what its worth, it's loaded with destruction. sure it's all cgi, but i have to admit there's creativity on display. it's just a overbudgeted homage, more mindless summer action. i thought it was better than stuff like the iron man sequels, avengers, dark knight rises. it's not a schizophrenic mess of source material, it's just another straight forward godzilla movie. i give it like a 6.5 or 7.

okay so i saw pitch black and chronicles probably when i was around 10 and 13 respectively. i saw them both once and i thought they were fine, nothing special. but still after chronicles i never expected them to make a sequel, and now riddick's here after about a decade. the short version : it's dumb as hell. starts out with a tie in with chronicles, diesels become the king of a empire and he instantly gets betrayed and kicked off a cliff in a deserted alien-infested planet. diesel proceeds to hit random animals in the head with a club for about a half hour until bounty hunters show up. he jacks some vital ship components than buries them. then just walks up to the hunters trying to negotiate, and he gets captured. a rain storm hits and pitchblack-type creatures appear and so they have to go grab the components. that's pretty much the entire movie. the dialog is garbage, complete with a crap narration from vin diesel. it relies heavily on cgi so all of the creatures look cartoonish, most of the action is humans killing said creatures which leads to an abundance of cgi blood and gore. the acting is pretty solid considering the material, and i will have to admit i didn't think the movie was boring. it's just not worth the $12.50 price of admission, hell i wouldn't even recommend it on cable unless your a huge fan of the first two. it's laughable at best.

I watched this a few months ago and randomly stumbled unto the IMDb page. first of all this movie doesn't deserve a 4.4, its at least a 5.5 in my book. so than i check the reviews and let me just state the summaries of the five most recent reviews; "Worst Movie of All Time", "Below "C" category", "Uneeded Sequel", "Unkind To Actors", and "The worst special effects one can imagine". this is by no means a good movie or an example of quality filmmaking, simply put it's a fast paced comic book movie. now up until Disney bought marvel, most comic book movies were terrible. look at the dolph lundgren punisher, its stupid as hell but its a spectacle of ridiculous over the top action. ghost rider 2 made absolutely no sense to me, but i'm not a fan of the comics and i did not watch the first movie. i also wasn't expecting the writing to be dark knight quality, if you haven't noticed David s goyer is a terrible story teller. basically all thats here is a bunch of shoot outs, car chases, explosions, and nicolas cage thrown into a blender. there's no character development, and no memorable one liners, just action. with all that said, was ghost rider 2 is a painless sit. it's not groundbreaking, nor is it impressive, it's just another pg13 action movie. the strength of the film is probably its energetic style, which i credit to the crank guys. when one action set piece is over with they'll just go right into the next one. nicolas cage isn't at a new low in this, he carries this piece of s**t across the finish line. the other actors are on auto-pilot but who can blame them when the script obviously sucks and gives them nothing to do. in short, ghost rider 2 is an entertaining mess. the biggest problem is it really doesn't make any sense, but screw it i wasn't watching this for plot. if your with a few friends completely fried at 3am and ghost rider 2s on, first look for something smart and if that fails go ahead and give it a chance.