Cast
Johnny Whitworth was rocking the Kirk Russell do in this one for a while, portraying a nasty piece of work out to nab "son of Satan" born as half-devil/half-human, a kid named Danny, desired by multiple people, monks with writing on their faces (led by Highlander himself, Christopher Lambert), a French monk who rides a hog, gulps wine, and has glassy eyes (Idris Elba; this dude is just cool), and Satan (Ciarán Hinds). Satan enlists Whitworth's Carrigan and his henchmen to find Danny, running with his mom, played by Violante Placido (man, I like these Italian chicks that look like they are Russian). Placido's Nadya was about to die when she allowed Satan to have her womb in exchange for her life, but now those maternal instincts, that protective gene, cause her to try and keep Danny from being a human shell for Satan to thrive. Then Cage is offered by Elba to be released from the demon that lurks within if he helps find Danny (at this point kidnapped by Whitworth), taking the boy to the monks who later reveal their motives to sacrifice the child for the good of mankind. Whitworth is a victim of his own folly--attempting to use black market weapons of war to fight a demon from hell (once an angel of justice). Yet Satan grants him the "power of decay", so whenever Carrigan touches someone they deteriorate into sculptures that look destroyed by centuries of acid rain (a neat, but morbid image, for sure). Anyway, Cage's Johnny Blaze bonds with Danny and, even though his desire to be released from the demon is granted, his need to protect the boy will place him in a difficult predicament: will he be willing to become ghost rider again to save Danny from being Satan's host? I'm always amazed at how Satan has to depend on others to do his dirty work and gets his ass handed to him by a demon he should whoop easily. That said, I liked the idea of one side of Satan's face "crippled" because of the power it took to give Carrigan the "power of decay". This is one of the reasons he wants to join with Danny, so instances like that won't happen. Whitworth has that swagger and don't-give-a-shit attitude, even demanding more greenbacks in exchange for the payload.
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