Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
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| German title | Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance |
| Original title | Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
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| Director |
Mark Neveldine Brian Taylor |
| script |
Scott M. Gimple Seth Hoffman David S. Goyer |
| production |
Steven Paul Ashok Amritraj Michael De Luca Avi Arad Ari Arad |
| music | David Sardy |
| camera | Brandon consolation |
| cut | Brian Berdan |
| occupation | |
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| chronology | |
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is an action film from the year 2012 the directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor with Nicolas Cage in the lead role. The comic book adaptation is a sequel to the 2007 film Ghost Rider and is based on the Marvel comics of the same name .
action
A clergyman from France named Moreau visits an old castle fortress in Eastern Europe where monks live. He warns Abbot Benedict that a boy hidden here would be in danger and that "the rider" should be asked for help to get him to safety. Benedict replies that the boy would be safe here and that the matter would have been dealt with in a few days with the winter solstice anyway. Shortly after Benedict declares the discussion with Moreau over, there is an explosion and the fortress is raided by a group of mercenaries led by Carrigan, who are apparently after the boy named Danny. However, Danny and his mother Nadya can escape in time. Moreau follows the two to offer them his help, but since Nadya does not know him, she also flees from him.
Moreau is now looking for the rider in his human form, Johnny Blaze. He had withdrawn to Eastern Europe years ago. Blaze initially doesn't want anything to do with Moreau, but when Moreau promises him that the curse will be removed if he brings the boy to them, he agrees. In order to track down the boy, he turns into the rider. When he meets Danny and his mother, they are threatened by Carrigan's people. After killing a few men, he is shot at with grenades, giving Carrigan the opportunity to kidnap Danny.
When Carrigan tells his client Roarke (who is the devil in human form) of an encounter with a burning skeleton on a motorcycle, he knows that the rider is after Danny and ensures that he can no longer track him down can. After the rider wakes up in his human form in the hospital, he discovers Nadya there and follows her. He reveals his story to her and learns from her that she too once made a pact with the devil. When she was dying, he gave her life. Her part of the deal was to carry his child, making Danny the Devil's son.
Since Nadya knew Carrigan from earlier, they visit one of his business partners and learn from him that Carrigan will meet with others in a quarry to buy weapons. When the rider arrives there, he is shot at with rocket launchers, but he survives and strikes back by transforming the world's largest land vehicle, the bucket wheel excavator " Bagger 288 " into his fiery vehicle, killing the attackers. Nadya can now free her son and escape with him. When Roarke arrives, he transforms the killed Carrigan into a supernatural being called Blackout and gives him the power of "the decay of darkness", with which he can turn everything he touches into dust. Since the rider makes no distinction between hired killers like Carrigan and a petty criminal like Nadya, he's now after Nadya as well, but Danny's powers push the rider back and turn him back into Blaze.
After Moreau has joined them, they drive together to a sacred refuge where the monk Methodius awaits them. Since Blaze has delivered the boy, he should now be released from the curse of the Rider. Moreau previously explained to him that the Rider was once an angel of justice named Zarathos, who was supposed to protect mortals. But he was captured, dragged to hell, and driven mad. His mission to protect the innocent has been perverted into greed to punish the guilty. Thus the spirit of righteousness became the spirit of retribution and with it the rider.
Blaze performs the ritual and is now released from the rider. Meanwhile, Moreau and Nadya have been separated from Danny. Methodius lied to Moreau and does not want to hide Danny here, but to kill him, because he does not believe that his soul can be saved and he alone considers his existence to be too dangerous. When Danny is about to be beheaded by Methodius, Blackout shows up, kills all the monks and takes Danny with him. They learn from Moreau that Roarke fathered Danny, because he was looking for a human shell strong enough to endure his powers and absorb his spirit. Although Blaze has lost his powers, he feels an obligation to Danny and wants to help Moreau and Nadya save his soul from Roarke. When the three arrive at the place that is supposed to be furthest from heaven, the transmission ceremony has already begun. Moreau is killed by Blackout, and when he tries to take on Blaze, Danny joins them. Having the same powers as his father, he can restore the Rider's power to Blaze and save him. The Rider kills Blackout and sends the devil back to Hell, destroying Roarke, his human shell.
Nadya holds the lifeless body of her son in her arms. The transformed Blaze now feels the angel inside and his bony hand is surrounded by flames, which are now blue instead of red. He strokes Danny on the cheek with a gesture with which he previously killed the guilty. Now he can use it to bring the innocent and thus Danny back to life. At the end you see the rider on his motorcycle with blue flames disappearing into the darkness.
background
- The two directors have a guest appearance in the film: When Johnny Blaze declares the pact with the devil, a still image can be seen in which the two shake hands while one of them (Brian Taylor) is on fire.
- The person portrayed in the film as the human forms of the devil is host Jerry Springer .
- The official theatrical release in the USA was on February 17, 2012, in Germany on February 23, 2012. With production costs estimated at around 57 million US dollars, around 132 million US dollars were grossed at box offices around the world, 52 million of which in the US and 4.7 million in Germany.
synchronization
The synchronization was carried out by Neue Tonfilm Munich under the direction of Stefan Günther .
| role | actor | German voice |
|---|---|---|
| Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider | Nicolas Cage | Martin Keßler |
| Roarke | Ciarán Hinds | Bernd Rumpf |
| Nadya | Violante Placido | Victoria Storm |
| Danny | Fergus Riordan | Christian Pointer |
| Ray Carrigan / Blackout | Johnny Whitworth | Stefan Günther |
| Moreau | Idris Elba | Ingo Albrecht |
| Methodius | Christopher Lambert | Joachim Tennstedt |
| Benedict | Anthony Head | Erich Rauker |
| Grannik | Spencer Wilding | Matthias Klages |
| Toma Nikasevic | Vincent Regan | Helmut Gauss |
| Vasil | Cristian Iacob | Martin Kautz |
| Man in suit | Will Ashcroft | Peter Reinhardt |
| camper | Tobias Öjerfalk | Dirk Stollberg |
| Fighter | n / A | Matthias Klages |
Reviews
“A comic film adaptation that is reasonably entertaining with well-staged action, but does not reveal any particular originality. A pinch of self-irony would have made the material, which is on the edge of the trash, more palatable. "
“And again Nicolas Cage took on the role of 'Ghost Rider', because apparently nothing better is being offered to the once celebrated star. So he grinds his way through this stupid comic spectacle with the same mine of suffering, which also needed two directors (Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor) to ultimately fail. And 3D doesn't help at all! "
“Unlike the other more or less toothpaste advertising compatible Marvel heroes such as Iron Man, Thor or Captain America (not to mention DC competitor Green Lantern) the Ghost Rider is a fundamentally tragic figure and by virtue of its origins not a shining light for preservation and salvation of the good, but literally a poor devil who suffers bitterly from having surrendered his soul to Satan (..) Who should - and why at all - have an interest in the dirtiest, most excessive rocker of the otherwise sterile seeming Boy scout gang in the superhero universe in the end no longer viciously handled iron chains and conflagration but instead sprinkled holy water piously and well? "
“You don't have to like Nicolas Cage, but you have to admit that he really gives everything to make this Johnny Blaze suitable for the cinema. Friends of the wild fantasy trash get their money's worth. "
Awards
- Idris Elba received a Best Actor nomination for the BET Awards 2012.
- The film was nominated for the 2013 Golden Raspberry negative award in the worst remake or sequel category, and Nicolas Cage was nominated in the worst actor category (together for his portrayal in Pact of Vengeance ).
Web links
- Official website ( English )
- Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 266 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Financial data according to BoxOfficeMojo
- ↑ Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance in German synchronous card index
- ^ Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance , Prisma
- ↑ Vote for the election in Perlentaucher on February 22, 2012
- ↑ Action! - New at the cinema in Stern on February 23, 2012