Overall, I have to say that I have mixed feelings on this movie. I found it to be entertaining and fun but at the same time there were parts of the movie I didn't like either. First off, this is quite a different CBM, I mean it's not everyday you see or hear in a movie, a 10 year-old girl say, "Okay, you c**nts" and "I'm just f**king with you daddy". I can tell there will be parents out there who would probably want to boycott this film and even protest at movie theaters (fortunatley, not mine lol). I've also never read the comic so I won't say how close to the source material is was but from some of the covers I've seen it looks like it's pretty close to the source material!
(Spoilers!!!)
The plot is basically that Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a average teen, gets the idea to suit himself up as a costumed vigilante after getting mugged. Unfortunatley, he has no super powers and after a encounter with some thugs, a knife, and a car, he winds up with some metal plated bones and severed nerve endings, so he basically doesn't feel much pain when he fights bad guys. He later becomes an internet sensation, called Kick-Ass, thanks to some footage taken on a cell phone by a witness. His life begins to get better after the accident, with his school crush Katie finally wanting to get to know him, though only for the reason that she believes he is gay, which he goes along with. We are later introduced to Big Daddy (Nic Cage) and his daughter Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz), who are two highly trained costumed vigilantes. They see potential in Kick Ass and take an interest to him. Unfortunately so does crime boss Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong) who thinks that Big Daddy and Hit Girl's raids on his crime ring are the work of Kick-Ass. Another costumed hero called Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), inspired by Kick-Ass's antics, becomes a superhero. Red Mist later turns out to be the son of Frank D'Amico and that's when things start to get ugly and Kick-Ass has to save the day!!!
One thing I will say is that Matthew Vaughn did a great job directing and making this film and it makes me wonder what X3 could have been like if Vaughn had directed it. The actors were all great in this movie, especially Chloe Moretz as Hit-Girl, she needs at least some sort of award nomination for her performance in Kick-Ass. Nic Cage, Mark Strong, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and Aaron Johnson were all good in this film to! The music was pretty
good to! Now onto the things I didn't like about this movie. For one thing, this movie is supposed to be about what would happen if people really dressed up as a costumed-crime fighter and it's supposed to be pretty believable. The 1st half of the film was believable but to me, the 2nd half wasn't even believable at all, I mean seriously, a jetpack? That and some other unbelievable scenes in the 2nd half, just ruined the movie for me and took me right out of it.
I really couldn't decide whether or not to rate Kick-Ass with 3 stars or 2 stars so I went in between. This film is by no means bad, it's pretty good, but the 2nd half may (or did for me) ruin it for you!
-2.5 out 4 stars-
