![]() Tortured by what he has done, Johnny leaves behind his true love Roxanne Simpson (Eva Mendes, HITCH). As deals with the devil go, they never quite work out as planned. Mephistopheles (Peter Fonda, EASY RIDER) comes to visit the boy, promising to save his dad if the young stunt rider will sell his soul to him. When Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage, FACE/OFF) was a kid, he performed in a motorcycle stunt act with his dad Barton (Brett Cullen, TV's LOST), who is dying of lung cancer. Lacking the quality of character he had in his first outing, Johnson makes the less than original origin tale worth watching, but finds nothing else to fill out the rest of this feature film with. ![]() Now, with a lesser hero in the Marvel roster, he doesn't do much better. Mark Steven Johnson's last attempt at adapting a Marvel comic was DAREDEVIL, the first big failure of the modern Marvel string.
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