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Friday, April 10, 2026

Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance (2012)

Director Mark Neveldine
Brian Taylor
Rating Rating
MPAA PG-13
Run Time 96 min
Color Color
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Sound Dolby Digital, Datasat, SDDS, Dolby Surround 7.1
Producer Columbia Pictures
Country: USA
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Plot Synopsis

Johnny Blaze, a man who made a deal with the Devil who called himself Mephistopheles at the time (now Roarke), is on the run trying to make sure no-one is harmed by his alter ego, The Ghost Rider. He is approached by a Monk named Moreau who tells him that he can help be him free of the Rider, but first, he needs Johnny's help to protect a boy, whom Roarke has plans for, to help him take human form.

Tagline

He rides again.

Quotes

Johnny Blaze: I don't save people.

Filming Locations

Cappadoccia, Turkey

Pamukkale, Turkey

Corvin Castle, Hunedoara, Romania

Christopher Lambert was required to wear makeup that depicted heavy tattoos covering his entire head. It took so long to take off that he decided to keep it on when he returned to his hotel each night, until his filming schedule was complete.

After this film, the live-action film rights to Ghost Rider went back to Marvel Studios.

Danny is named after Daniel Ketch, the second Ghost Rider and Johnny Blaze's long lost brother.

Apparently, Peter Fonda was offered to come back in this film but after reading the first 5 pages of the script he flat out refused.

(at around 27 mins) Previous incarnation of the Devil that are shown include Vlad the Impaler, Joseph Stalin, a clown (possibly referencing John Wayne Gacy), and Jerry Springer.

Continuity

(at around 51 mins) While driving the ambulance, Carrigan's power does not decay the steering wheel, the back door or the gurney but it does work on metal as he destroyed the sword and a gun.

Near the beginning, when Moreau is shown riding his motorcycle across the footbridge leading to the castle, the entire image is reversed. The white shrine at the entrance should be on the right side of the bridge and the entire castle is shown reversed.



Factual errors

(at around 4 mins) When Moreau has the tires on his bike shot out and falls off the cliff, he shoots a P90 at the car, with the ejected rounds flying out of the side of the gun. In reality, the rounds eject out of the bottom of the gun, not the side.

(at around 1h 21 mins) The scene during the final car chase when Carrigan is touching the wind shield on Nadya's car to make it decay shouldn't work as glass does not decay, with the exception of certain really old types of glass which deteriorate due to inherent chemical instability.

(at around 39 mins) The view through the Command Launch Unit (CLU) of the FGM-148 Javelin missile launcher is depicted as green night vision. The Javelin actually has a black and white, infra-red thermal sight, meaning hotter objects appear white.

(at around 24 mins) When Nadya confronts Johnny outside the hospital, she points a Glock at him. The sound effect used is from the cocking of the hammer of a revolver. Glocks don't have hammers.



Revealing mistakes

(at around 4 mins) During the first chase from the monastery, the black SUV gets damaged in the front as it swipes a red car but just after a while everything is back in shape.

(at around 39 mins) The FGM-148 Javelin missile launcher in the film is obviously a very low quality prop. Most notably, the protective foam rubber "bumpers" are missing from the missile tube.

Driving on wrong side of road. Cars are American with European tags.



Audio/visual unsynchronized

Engine sounds vary throughout the movie and are frequently mismatched with the engine configuration from the vehicle they're meant to portray (e.g. an inline four-cylinder sound on a twin-cylinder bike, and sporadic narrow-angle twin sounds on Blaze's balanced V4 engine).



Character error

(at around 35 mins) When Toma is describing the FGM-148 Javelin missile launcher, his description is of a oxygen-depleting thermobaric weapon. The Javelin actually has a conventional shaped charge HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) warhead.