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| Genres: | ActionComedyDr |
| Starring: | Nicolas Cage, Xander Berkeley, Michael Rispoli, Jason Flemyng, Omari Hardwick, Tamer Hassan, Kofi Natei |
| Director(s): | Matthew Vaughn |
| Available Quality: | DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def |
| Country: | USA, UK |
| Year: | 2010 |
| IMDB Rating: | 7.9 |
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan with a few friends and who lives alone with his father. His life is not very difficult and his personal trials not that overwhelming. However, one day he makes the simple decision to become a super-hero even though he has no powers or training.
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Visitor Reviews: (20)
acidbubbles 20 May 2012
Kick-Ass = Lame-Ass
I was actually excited to see this movie. I thought it would be SuperBad meets super heroes, which should be hilarious. The cast seemed likea good one and everyone was giving it a great review. So I gathered upmy parents for a family outing (we had all loved Super Bad) andproceeded to endure a painful two hours while being constantly worriedabout the confused and disappointed looks that I would be getting frommy parents after the show.The first 20 minutes or so were on the right track. A little slowmoving, but at least attempting to be comedic. It's like half way intoa ridiculous concept the writer/director/whoever decided "Let's goserious with this!" Are you kidding me? This could NOT be a seriousmovie and their attempt to make it so is what made it so painful.Nicolas Cage was like some overdone cartoon character, McLovin waswasted, his father's goons were completely unbelievable and everyoneelse I simply didn't care about. Sure, Hit Girl had a few good shockvalue moments, but that was about it.Overall, this movie was super violent, super ridiculous and the wholerevenge plot reminded me of Repo! The Genetic Opera, which is justabout the worst movie ever made.If you like ridiculous movies that aren't comedic and have a lot ofviolence, then sure, you'll like this. If you want at least a farfetched sense of realism, humor and substance, don't waste your time.I'm sorry I had to be the first one to knock this movie, but give me abreak. NOT WORTH THE TIME.
20 May 2012
Interesting concept, lots of horrible executions.
The main conceit of Kick Ass, the latest super hero film to grace the screens of cinemas across the country, is that it's set in the "real world". You know, the real world where someone trains an eleven-year-old girl to be a mass-murderer and is viewed as a hero. Yeah, that real world. Of course, in the actual real world there are in fact kids who do get trained to be mass-murderers, go around killing people by the dozens and the people that trained them are rightly viewed as criminals, but whatever.Kick Ass tells the story of David, a not-unattractive teenage boy who is a total geek and who no girls want. He's a big comic book fan and one day starts asking why no one tries to be a super-hero in real life. His friends rightly tell him it's because, basically, they'd die quickly and messily, but he doesn't want to hear that, so he goes out, gets a SCUBA outfit, and heads out to fight crime. Soon he's beaten to a pulp, stabbed in the stomach and hit by a car, all of which seems to give weight to his friends' suspicions. But David, who apparently now no longer has feeling in much of his body due to his injuries, soldiers on, and a legend is born, more or less.Of course it turns out that in fact there is someone out there planning to be a super-hero, if by super-hero you mean "revenge-driven maniac whose only super powers are killing people with guns and training his eleven-year-old daughter to gleefully run around slaughtering people". That someone is named Big Daddy and is played by Nicholas Cage with his usual level of scene-chewing glee (and I do love his vocal delivery as Big Daddy where he's clearly channeling Mayor of Quahog, Adam West). His daughter is a foul-mouthed sociopath named Hit Girl. Together they go out and kill people. They also manage to save Kick Ass when he's about to get killed.Their activities soon attract the attention of a mob boss whose son, played by the adorable Christopher Mintz-Plasse, is also a comic book fan and very lonely. When his dad comes up with a plan to kill Kick Ass, the son decides to become a super-hero himself, called Red Mist, and befriend Kick Ass. This leads to them bonding and becoming pals and stuff and, frankly, I haven't the energy to continue to describe what happens. You've seen the trailer. You know what happens. Lots of ultra-violence and lots of people being killed in many horrible ways (death by stabbing, by shooting, by burning, by bazooka...).The movie is good and entertaining until the end of the first act when Hit Girl and Big Daddy show up. I know Hit Girl is supposed to be this character we all love and root for, but frankly I can't stand the character or her concept. There is nothing good about her at all. Yes, I know this isn't the real world (though it seems to want to be), but I seriously cannot find anything good about a character that butchers dozens of people like she does (and this is ignoring the fact that most of what she does isn't actually possible in the real world).I don't know, call me a spoilsport but I like the fact that most super-heroes don't go around killing people. I like that Superman, Spider-Man, Batman and the like turn criminals over for trial. Sure, they end up escaping or being found not guilty or whatever, but that's because it's a comic book world and not the real world where someone like the Joker would be found guilty and would never see the light of day ever again.Overall once the first act is done, there's really nothing I liked about this movie. I found the characters to be reprehensible, the level of violence to be annoying (if Kick Ass had been shown fully nude from the front at some point, you can bet this movie would've been rated NC-17, but showing horrific violence just gets it an R), and the plot to be really uninteresting. I'd hoped for more. It wasn't an awful movie, but could've been way, way better. It has little to recommend it and a lot that recommends avoiding it.
alexandrearsp 18 May 2012
Kick ass review
More of the same, basically. Kick ass starts off with a good premise.It develops the characters with a shallow approach and a few jokethreats.After the initial introduction the film wanders off into pointless selfindulgent garbage.It's definitely a 1 out of 10. I'll give it a one because i sketched asmile for about 3 seconds throughout the first half.i am also bothered to see the American movie industry releasing stufflike this. I thought it had reached the rock bottom but guess what...it's lowering standards still.Cheers.
aidanmacv 17 May 2012
A Kick ass movie!
Need I say what I said in the summary? Kick ass was funny and graphicas hell, the story main focused on a comic book fan Dave Lizewski whois tired of being bullied around and tired of thinking why people arenot super hero's in real life. So he orders a suit online with somewooden batons (it is never revealed where he got them from) and goesout into the night to Kick some Ass!, and it ends up horribly! While ona run he meets "Hit Girl" and "Big Daddy" they team up only to face adreaded fate against New York gang owner Frank D'Amico. This movie hasthe ending that you have to see for self! All in all the movie wasreally good the story was awesome and follow-able and the charactersyou can really care for! I recommend you leave the kids behind on thisone, and if you love a good laugh what are you waiting for buy or rentKick Ass today!
16 May 2012
What a blast!
This review is from: Kick-Ass (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) (Blu-ray) I rented this on appletv one night last weekend. I had heard some friends talk about it but hadn't really paid that much attention. OMG, I loved this movie. I bought a digital version on itunes, the blu-ray version of the movie, the comic book and the soundtrack. This movie just leaves you with a great feeling, but at the same time you want to know more about these characters'. I'll second what others have said, this is definitely my favorite movie this year.
Jonny Fendi 16 May 2012
Rude, Brutal and FUN !
When you were just a kid, did you ever wish to be a superhero? I thinkall the kids who were born in 1980s onward would ever desire aboutthat, at least once. Thiz movie is very confident since the beginning,they advertise it rapidly and the posters are very attractive as well.It's about Dave (Aaron Johnson), an unpopular and nerdy boy who wantsto be a superhero even without super power. He tries to save the worldwith the alter-ego named Kick-Ass, to do otherwise he get his asskicked. Meanwhile, there are Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and hereleven-year-old daughter named Hit-Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) who havebeen the real superheroes, fighting the crime against drug dealer mobFrank D'Amico (Mark strong). Frank attempts to put his son, Chris(Christopher Mintz-Plasse) as undercover superhero named Red Mist, hisintention is to capture Kick-Ass. Aaron Johnson delivers standardperformance. Nicolas Cage provides a strong and comical figure. It'sChloë Grace Moretz who surprises us with believable and easy-goingperformance. Hit-Girl's fight scene is one of the awesome moments (weknow that she's probably replaced by stunt double, but it's stillawesome!), furthermore she is also good in drama.Once again, MarkStrong successfully brings an interesting villain character. Recently,he was also a bad guy in "RocknRolla" (2008), "The Young Victoria"(2009), "Sherlock Holmes" (2009) and "Robin Hood" (2010). In everyoccasion, he could deliver different bad guy character with his auraand I admire him for that. In fact, I will officially give himappreciation as "Bad Guy of the Year". The Director is Matthew Vaughnwho directed "Stardust" (2004) and the respectable "Layer Cake" (2007).Actually on thiz movie, the conversation is a little bit rude (asfamily movie) and the fight scene is kind of bloody brutal, but we haveto admit the story is original and effectively hilarious. The movie isbrave enough to challenge the mainstream and it works well in most ofthe times. In my point of view, when we dare enough to laugh on ourselffor our own stupidity or feebleness, that's the time we actually showthe big heart of us.Visit My Blog on JONNY'S MOVEE : http://jonnyfendi.blogspot.com
15 May 2012
"Look for the signal in the sky. It's in the shape of a giant #!*%@"
MILD SPOILERS...And that line was spoken by the eleven year old superheroine of this film. KICK-ASS is a cornball classic that is definitely headed for a kind of immortality as a camp set-up of BATMAN and SPIDER-MAN. It's the story of ordinary Dave Lizewsky of Queens NY, who one day decides to take up the job of local superhero for lack of any other ambitions. Dave has problems being a superhero. Unlike Peter Parker/Spider-Man he has no unnatural super powers (except "being invisible to girls"); he lacks the technological skills of Tony Stark/Ironman; and he has no millions to spend on creating a persona like Bruce Wayne/Batman. Instead, he buys a lime green wetsuit and mask from a sporting goods store, arms himself with a couple of wooden batons which he can barely hold, and names himself "Kick-Ass." He's strictly a bargain-bin superhero. His first "assignment" is to rescue a cat ("Mr. Bitey") from a tree; he falls out and concusses himself. In his second assignment he tries to stop two punks from breaking into a car. They throw him a beating and stab him in the gut. While he's crawling away from the fight he gets struck by a hit and run driver. The run-down is serendipitous. Rendered largely neuropathic from the accident, he feels little pain, and most of his bones are replaced with titanium plates and rods. When he recovers, he goes back to getting a beating for crime, this time trying to break up a street fight. It's a draw, but someone posts the video online, and overnight, Kick-Ass becomes a folk hero for tryng to save the victim.What nobody knows is that two real superheroes, "Big Daddy" (in a Batman-like costume) and his sass-mouthed, weapons-qualified preteen daughter "Hit Girl" (think a four-foot Robin with purple hair) are terrorizing a gang of mobsters.In the meantime, Kick-Ass is reveling in his fame and enjoying his sweet new girlfriend. What he doesn't know is that the mobsters think he is the superhero who has been tormenting them. They try to lure him out by baiting him with a possible sidekick "Red Mist" (the superheroic names in this movie are intentionally lame), and this leads to the grand battle between Kick-Ass, Big Daddy, and Hit Girl on one side and Red Mist and the mobsters on the other. By far the best character is not Kick-Ass himself, but Hit Girl. One 17 year old character announces his plan to save himself for her; a reviewer says he wants to adopt her. Noble sentiments all.
arthera09 14 May 2012
Not going to change the face of film making
This is not a bad movie by any means. It is an OK movie that Ithoroughly enjoyed, but it will not change the face of film making.There was nothing remarkable about the film. The only scene that Ithought was original was the one scene where where Big Daddy's backstory is fleshed out. I like how it became a comic book itself andsomehow was able to maintain the pseudo realistic tone of the film,while providing an over the top comic book back story for one of thecharacters. It was funny. The action was fun. The story aspect thatallowed Hit Girl to attack the end guy was pretty well done, but forthe most part I do not see what all the hype it. I enjoyed it, but as amovie it was only OK. The story was predictable and the trailerattempted to steer you in one direction it really did not pan out tohave any engaging twists. Plus the "hero" gets the girl stuff reallyannoyed me. I thought it was silly and they attempted to build up to itbut it was still a silly moment. Oh well. Fun to watch, but I will notshout it praises at the top of a mountain.
13 May 2012
EASILY ONE OF THE GREATEST COMIC BOOK FILMS EVER MADE!
This review is from: Kick-Ass (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) (Blu-ray) I have wanted to see Kick-Ass ever since I saw the trailer over a year ago. What looked to be just another "by the numbers" sophomoric comedy turns out to be a brilliant and wickedly funny satire for adults.This film isn't going to appeal to everyone and I'm not here to insult anyone on either side of the fence. I enjoyed the film and I see nothing wrong with it. If you don't like it that's fine too and if you don't think your kids should see it, then don't let them, it wasn't intended for kids, but I do believe that trailer marketed it to look like a much more innocent film. The R rating should be enough warning for parents to get the idea that this film isn't for children.As far as the violence involving this young actress, I can remember many Little Rascal shorts that involved the rascals dragging adults across boards with nails in them or hitting them in the head with hammers etc, so this is not all that new to the world. I realize that this film shows violence that is way more graphic, but I also think we have become a little over sensitive and read way too much into everything these days.There were similar reactions to 'The Exorcist' and 'Pretty Baby' in their day and since Linda Blair and Brooke Shields seemed to have turned out OK I see no reason for such commotion. Everything is open to individual interpretation and depending on your age you may not realize that this has been going on since the early stages of filmmaking. I remember eight Shirley Temple vehicles called 'Baby Burlesks' she made before her wonderful feature films that portrayed 3 year olds as adults which I find much more alarming that this film.Now.....let's get to the movie. The casting is perfect with each of the four heroes having their own quirks and enough back story to propel this kind of film. Aaron Johnson plays the title character a Peter Parker type of nerdy school kid who without the aid of super powers decides he wants to fight crime. Christopher Mintz-Plasse plays "Red Mist" another school nerd who's father happens to be a gangster boss. Nick Cage gives one of his best performances as "Big Daddy" an ex cop who was framed and jailed for 5 years and wants nothing more than to crush those responsible. He enlists the aid of his pint sized potty mouthed daughter Mindy A.K.A. "Hit Girl" played by Chloe Moretz who absolutely owns this film! Moretz shows incredible chops here not only as an actress, but as a stunt person, she performs almost all her own stunts and her performance is amazing. I know some see this kid's character as child exploitation, but really each child is different and some are more mature that others and it is her parents responsibility not mine to see to it she can handle such a role.While the film is extremely violent, it is portrayed much like in many comic books today which is a lot more disturbing than this film. I know that a lot of adults read comics, but comics are made for kids or at least that was their original intent, if comic books are going to have graphic violence, maybe there should be age restrictions on those too? I haven't seen an actual 'Kick Ass' comic book so I can't respond on how closely this movie portrays the comic, but I can tell you, this is easily one of the best comic book movies ever made.The Blu Ray combo pack has a slick looking transfer and plenty of behind the scenes features for fans. I hope that this Blu Ray DVD combo trend continues as I really like having both Blu Ray and DVD as I haven't fully committed to Blu Ray and it's nice to have both formats in case I want to watch this film as someone's home who doesn't have a Blu Ray.In Short Kick-Ass does just that all around!
13 May 2012
Shall I have feelings, or should I pretend to be cool?
Will I seem hopelessly square if I find "Kick-Ass" morally reprehensible and will I appear to have missed the point? Let's say you're a big fan of the original comic book, and you think the movie does it justice. You know what? You inhabit a world I am so very not interested in. A movie camera makes a record of whatever is placed in front of it, and in this case, it shows deadly carnage dished out by an 11-year-old girl, after which an adult man brutally hammers her to within an inch of her life. Blood everywhere. Now tell me all about the context.The movie's premise is that ordinary people, including a high school kid, the 11-year-old and her father, try to become superheroes in order to punish evil men. The flaw in this premise is that the little girl does become a superhero. In one scene, she faces a hallway jammed with heavily armed gangsters and shoots, stabs and kicks them all to death, while flying through the air with such power, it's enough to make Jackie Chan take out an AARP membership. This isn't comic violence. These men, and many others in the film, are really stone-cold dead. And the 11-year-old apparently experiences no emotions about this. Many children that age would be, I dunno, affected somehow, don't you think, after killing eight or 12 men who were trying to kill her?I know, I know. This is a satire. But a satire of what? The movie's rated R, which means in this case that it's doubly attractive to anyone under 17. I'm not too worried about 16-year-olds here. I'm thinking of 6-year-olds. There are characters here with walls covered in carefully mounted firearms, ranging from handguns through automatic weapons to bazookas. At the end, when the villain deliciously anticipates blowing a bullet hole in the child's head, he is prevented only because her friend, in the nick of time, shoots him with bazooka shell at 10-foot range and blows him through a skyscraper window and across several city blocks of sky in a projectile of blood, flame and smoke. As I often read on the Internet: Hahahahaha.The little girl is named Mindy (Chloe Grace Moretz). She adopts the persona of Hit Girl. She has been trained by her father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage), to join him in the battle against a crime boss (Mark Strong). Her training includes being shot at point-blank range while wearing a bulletproof vest. She also masters the martial arts -- more, I would say, than any other movie martial artist of any age I can recall. She's gifted with deadly knife-throwing; a foot-long knife was presented to her by Dad as, I guess, a graduation present.Big Daddy and Mindy never have a chat about, you know, stuff like how when you kill people, they are really dead. This movie regards human beings like video-game targets. Kill one, and you score. They're dead, you win. When kids in the age range of this movie's home video audience are shooting one another every day in America, that kind of stops being funny.Hit Girl teams up with Kick-Ass (Aaron Johnson), the film's narrator, a lackluster high school kid who lives vicariously through comic books. For reasons tedious to explain, he orders a masked costume by mail order and sets about trying to behave as a superhero, which doesn't work out well. He lacks the training of a Big Daddy. But as he and Hit Girl find themselves fighting side by side, he turns into a quick learner. Also, you don't need to be great at hand-to-hand combat if you can just shoot people dead.The early scenes give promise of an entirely different comedy. Aaron Johnson has a certain anti-charm, his problems in high school are engaging, and so on. A little later, I reflected that possibly only Nic Cage could seem to shoot a small girl point-blank and make it, well, funny. Say what you will about her character, but Chloe Grace Moretz has presence and appeal. Then the movie moved into dark, dark territory, and I grew sad.
Altrious 12 May 2012
Loved it
I won't go as far to say this is the best movie of all time. But, afterseeing the garbage that was Clash of the Titans before this intheaters, it feels like it could be considered the best. But, that's adifferent movie, so, different review. I did enjoy this moviethoroughly. Of course it had its downsides, but what movie doesn't? Isee so many complaints about Chloe as Hit-Girl, and all I can do ispraise her. Children tend to ruin movies for me, but, this was not thatcase. This movie was brilliant because of her. The amount ofseriousness mixed with childishness was hilarious and entertaining ashell. Nicholas Cage, I will honestly say, every movie I have ever seen himin, I have no enjoyed. Movies such as, Ghost Rider, National Treasure,The Wicker Man, all these movies made me want to cry. But, in Kick Ass,I couldn't help but love him. He felt so cheesy and dumb, but, that'sthe kind of movie this is. He was a stereotype that people have seem tohave forgotten, and he played it beautifully and he had me laughingwhenever he was on screen. And not to mention, his action scene waspretty bad ass. Christopher Mintz-Plasse, I'm not a huge fan of. Superbad was a ratherawful movie, and he didn't make me go crazy in this film. Somethingabout this guy just makes me hate, it's probably his voice, and thegoofy look that is ever present on his face. He could have easily beenleft out of this movie for all I cared.Aaron Johnson I think I will look forward to in the future. I liked theway he did the roll in this, his voice got a bit old and he seemed tobe trying far to hard to have a geeky attitude, when we knew it wasthere. Overall, I enjoyed the hell out of this movie. It was funny, theaction was good, and the story wasn't God awful. It didn't take itselftoo seriously, but when it did, it did it well.
12 May 2012
This move....kicks @SS!
It's hilarious, action packed, just....awesome. If you like super hero movies and like enjoy movies like Superbad and Feast, then this is a movie for you. Comedy mixed with gore, dark humor, and entertaining super-nonsense awaits you.I hestitate to use the term "super-nonsense." Part of what makes this film so great is an idea of heroism moored in reality. Mark Millar has brought us so many interesting takes on the super hero mythos; he's a credit to the genre. In Ultimates it was the fallibility of the men/women behind the masks, and the violent implications of supernatural power. In The Authority it was the tacit dominion of these god-like figures we call super heroes.And in Kick-Ass, it's the consequence of a mortal taking on greater-than-mortal role. The heroes in Kick-Ass bleed (a lot), and cry, and break, just like you and I would. Kick-ass himself, a punching-bag super hero pastiche, represents youths placing themselves in harm's way to find themselves. Correlate his misadventures to what you will: drugs, gangs, self-inflicting, diseases of body image - Kick-ass talks about teenagers and their distorted perception of the world as much as it talks about the distorted world super heroes exist in.Because of it's social and cultural implications (and the fact that it's so DAMN funny and entertaining) I rank Kick-Ass one of the top 5 super movies ever made.
genau 09 May 2012
Some good performances but not a great success
Firstly, I really liked what Aaron Johnson and Chloe Moretz bought totheir roles as Kick Ass and Hit Girl respectively, but much of the restof the film was forgettable. Nic Cage was uneven as Big Daddy and Ireally can't understand why he's getting such big props for a prettyworkmanlike performance. The story, writing and direction are alsogetting rave reviews, but I wasn't impressed. The whole romanticsubplot seemed pointless and after the initial setup just seemedcontrived. The direction of the action scenes was also disappointingand the director went for the Jason Bourne shaking camera routine,which I personally don't like. Some professional reviewers have beenraving about the "single shot" action sequence with Nic Cage when infact it clearly was not a single shot take. Christopher Mintz-Plasse asRed Mist was a massive disappointment and he gave the worst performancein the movie. Mark Strong as Frank D'Amico, the chief villain, was muchbetter - but he was also in the scene that left a really bad taste inmy mouth. Near the end he beats the living hell out of Chloe Moretz'sHit Girl. Sorry, but I cannot see any comedic or dramatic reason why weshould see an 11 year old girl get violently assaulted by a grown man.It made me feel sick and I'd like to hear exactly what the point of itwas, because I couldn't see one. Chloe Moretz is a star in the makingthough.
Christian Frank 09 May 2012
This Movie was NOT and NEVER will be a superhero Movie
I gave it a 1 out of 10 because I rated it as a Superhero movie. If itwas rated as a gory blood fest with killings and guts etc then maybeI'd give it a 2.If you are a 15 year old - or somehow haven't matured enough in your20's or 30's and still listen to Zane Lowe on radio 1 for your next CDto buy - then maybe it is for you. I hasten to add that even when I was15 - I would need not only to have gone back in time but changed myentire physical self to some kind of moron that confuses a superheromovie with a dark comedy about gangsters with 'American Pie'characters. Just for the record when I was 15, 'Weird Science' was mybest film.Let's get one thing straight before we begin - I love comics, the smellthey have, how you hold them - the very look and experience of thefantasy and the magic. I understood why a teenager would want to be asuperhero - so the movie starts with a good premise - but remains in aworld void of that spirit. Give me Superman, Spiderman, Batman any day.It's fun - the comic book experience. It was NEVER about engaging withthe readers to make them feel ill. It was never about offendingsensitivities. It was about good overcoming evil. Simple. Check theticket returns for a real superhero movie Vs 'this attempt'.I really felt that this movie insulted the genre of superhero films. Ifyou wanted comedy - watch 'Mystery Men' - keeps the same dreams withmisfit characters. This movie is violent just for the sake of pullingitself through each and every sordid scene. Luckily it sits by itselfunable to be bench marked. I haven't logged into my IMDb account insuch a long time, but felt it necessary to counter the positivereviews. Sorry! I needed to shout to anyone mature enough who enjoyscomic adaptations (and yes I can see the oxymoron 'Mature = Comics') tomake a reasoned judgement about watching this "piece of filth". I knowthat sounds like I work for the Daily Mail, but for the sake of freedomof expression - I would stop no one who wants to genuinely sit throughthis - then fine, but for perhaps parents who have children almost theage of Hit Girl say 11, and thinking her use of salty language is funny- forget it. If my daughter spoke like that I would be mortified - it'sjust not funny or cool or anything.This - people belongs on the top shelf with other adult publications -not comics. It's like the Viz comic, but no where near as funny. It'smarketed and aimed at young adults (which of course will include schoolchildren) and it is definitely not suitable for them. This picture issick and twisted and no impressionable youngsters should be viewingthese images. Hollywood has an open weeping sore. It's not well.Another symptom of our fallen social morals. We think this is cool?Really? God help us all.
06 May 2012
"Mindy, no more homework, Babydoll. Time for Frank D'Amico to go byebye." Blu-ray review.
This review is from: Kick-Ass (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) (Blu-ray) Dave Lizewski (Johnson) can't help but wonder "Why has no one tried to become a superhero?" As a comic-book nut he decides to take his passion to the next level and become a real-life superhero. His journey begins where else, EBay! What do you expect when you are a high school dork with only a $200 budget? His next step, a name...Kick-Ass or as Big Daddy (Cage) says "more like Ass-Kick"! Of course Kick-Ass has no powers, no skills, no smarts and no cool gadgets but he still inspires NY'ers once his beating by 3 thugs becomes viral on YouTube. His life is now changed by having his own comic book and copy cats. It all seems pretty cool, until he is implicated as the vigilante that is taking down D'Amico's (Strong) drug empire! Now, he is hunted by violent criminals and meets up with a pair of real crazed vigilantes, including an 11-year-old weapons wielding dynamo, Hit Girl (Moretz) and her father, Big Daddy. Kick-Ass eventually learns that the duo have their own score to settle with D'Amico. As obsession turns into madness, Kick-Ass is forced to become a real hero or die!Kudos to everyone involved on this project (both the comic and the film)! Millar's story and Romita's drawings inspired Matt Vaughn's vision and the result is a cult classic that will be loved by comic fanboys and it's own subculture for decades. The true star of this movie is Hit-Girl played amazingly by Chloe Moretz. She absolutely steals the show. Fans of Leon the Professional will immediately pick up the relationship with Moretz and Cage as it is similar to Portman and Reno. The film is dark and although there is comedy, it can be uncomfortable. Ultimately, once the "Ass-Kickin'" starts, you will be cheering with every dead bad guy! A must see.BLU-RAY THOUGHTS: A beautiful picture with outstanding sound. The colors pop and the blacks are rich. Blu-ray has made the home theatre experience so much better. SPECIAL FEATURES: Fantastic, although I would have loved deleted scenes. The two best features are long and include a making of and the origins of the comic book. FINAL THOUGHTS: I loved this movie. Comic book fans will jump all over it. Blu ray collectors should add this as well. Casual fans? Once you see it, you will love it too. A MUST OWN!
Joy Thomas 06 May 2012
One of the best films I've seen in years
Wasn't sure what to expect going into this one as I'm not a huge fan ofsuperhero films and the adverts didn't give much away, but I was amazedat how good it was. Great soundtrack, really good acting and originalstoryline - somehow managed to be funny, dramatic and action-packed allin one without compromising any of them. Hit-girl definitely stole the show for me - something very amusingabout a sweet and innocent looking little girl decapitating people andusing profanity. Nicholas Cage was also very good in my opinion, as wasRed Mist.Well worth a watch on the big screen for almost any film fan - just bewarned that it's not as child-friendly as the trailers may appear.There are at least a couple of pretty gritty scenes which I would beuncomfortable really with any child seeing.
david-robin 05 May 2012
Pointless violence for sociopath teens.
Dave Levinsky is one of those lame teenagers who spend 99% of theirtimes jerking off, and the rest of time reading comic books. He soonstarts fantasizing about becoming a superhero vigilante under thepseudonym "Kick Ass". Unfortunately his high expectations are notsupported by superpowers or extraordinary capabilities.After an appearance on TV, David "Kick Ass" is contacted by 2hyper-violent vigilantes, which are of much higher level, and are doingreal harm to the local drug mafia. Indeed, those 2 characters do nothesitate to use the most deadly weapons, or to even sell drugs, tofight the crime their own way...This movie is very disappointing. It is marketed as a teenage movie,with a blend of American Pie, Superbad and Spiderman. Sadly, "Kick-Ass"ends up being not so funny, and becomes a tribute to heavy gun violenceand self-justice and broken ethics. For example, the 2 superherosresell drugs to fund their armory, which is not what you would expectfrom "good" guys. Did I mention, those 2 superheroes are father anddaughter, the later (11-year old girl) skipping school to practice gunsand kung-fu?The film production is also deeply disappointing, the screenplay isminimal, the special effects being very visible and exaggerated. Theacting is very poor, you can hear laughs in the auditory when NicolasCage is narrating the death of his beloved pregnant wife. The "bad"guys have absolutely no presence.Finally like many recent blockbuster movies, the director makes sure tokeep one the bad guy alive, in order to leave the door opened for avery profitable sequel (Kick-Ass 2 is already scheduled for 2012).To be avoided. 3/10
RichardSRussell-1 05 May 2012
An Amazing Balancing Act
Kick-Ass (1:58, R)  Fantasy: Comics & Pulps, 2nd string, crossoverThe producers of Kick-Ass have a particular audience in mind  genusFanboius, species komicbukii  and since I am a prime specimen of theirintended target, I am pleased to say that they got me dead center withboth barrels ... and also several knives, a stun gun, a few grenades,several well placed fists to the head and kicks to the groin, and abazooka.This flick is a total trip from beginning to end. It gets thecomic-book feel just right, doesn't wuss out by pulling any punches inthe brutality department, is extremely well paced, keeps you guessingas to where it's going (a plus in my book), and features snappy,realistic dialog. Plus which, it's got more than its fair share oflaff-out-loud moments.We open with a voice-over from average high-schooler Dave Lizewski(Aaron Johnson), musing "I always wondered why nobody ever did itbefore me." as we see a cloaked figure spread his costume wings andplummet from the top of a tall building as the citizens below gape upin awe. Up to that point, Dave has been one of the faceless masses,lamenting "My only superpower was being invisible to girls.".That's about to change, tho, as he decides he doesn't need superpowersto don a costume (a customized scuba wetsuit) and fight crime with onlyhis bare hands, a brace of martial-arts batons, a taser, and "a perfectcombination of optimism and naiveté". His 1st encounter in the heroicpersona of Kick-Ass does not turn out well, however. But after they getdone patching him back together, he's got lots of metal parts and enufnerve damage to render him largely indifferent to pain. Thus his nextbig fight, defending a mugging victim against 3 thugs, works outsomewhat better, tho he still takes a beating. But this time it's beencaptured on multiple cell-phone cameras and soon becomes an internetsensation.As it turns out, somebody else DID hit on this idea before Dave did,somebody who does a much better Batman imitation while leavingvirtually no traces of who he is. That would be ex-con (and framedex-cop) Damon Macready (Nicolas Cage, even quirkier than usual buthighly effective as such), who goes by the nom de guerre Big Daddy. Oh,yeah, and then there's Big Daddy's little girl (literally a girl, aboutage 11) Mindy (Chloe Moretz), AKA Hit- Girl, who's quicker than acobra, nimbler than an Olympic gymnast, less remorseful than a pitbull, and cuter than a litter of cocker spaniel puppies when she wantsto be.Crime lord Frank D'Amico (the scarily effective Mark Strong) knows thatsomebody's been knocking over his drug deals and taking out his goons,but he doesn't believe the screaming pleas of his soon-to-be-exhenchmen that it was some kind of costumed vigilante. At least, hedoesn't give it much credence until he sees the video of Kick-Ass,after which he figures he's identified his nemesis and orders hisentire mob to track down and kill the costumed idiot.He's wrong, of course, it's been BD and HG (to quote their beltbuckles) all along. However bold his attitude, Dave is still physicallyineffectual (tho his love life is perking up a bit), but now he's atarget. BD and HG effortlessly track him down, warn him how easy it wasand what he's up against, and offer help if he really needs it.Shortly thereafter, another offer of assistance comes from a newcostumed crime-fighter, Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse, trying hardto overcome the McLovin stereotype), but there's something a littlehinky going on here.This movie is rated R and deserves it. It has no campy bam-biff-powscenes, but there are blood, cruelty, and corpses galore. The crooksare played as total hard-asses. And yet there are funny scenes thatdon't cut the mood. Really, this is an amazing balancing act, butnobody ever steps off that thin little wire.It's clearly not a movie for everyone, but I thot it rocked, and whatyou get is my highly personal but totally honest opinion: dandy!
Livvy. 03 May 2012
kicked ass! ;D
What a great film this was! it got me interested from the start,thestoryline wasn't boring and kept the action going. When the 'bigdaddy'(Nicholas cage) died it was really sad :/ but the character 'hitgirl' plays a really good role by the young actress! i hope their is asequel due to red mist at the end. it was a really funny film and AaronJohnson played a really good part! i loved the cool superhero comicfeel and all of the effects and stunts. It was funny and thrilling, andthe action was great.The costumes were nicely done. actors playedreally well. all in all a film I'm definitely going to purchase on DVD!loved it!
sydneyswesternsuburbs 03 May 2012
Classic Superhero Flick
Director and producer Matthew Vaughn who also produced other classicflicks, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998, Snatch 2000 and HarryBrown 2009 has created another gem in Kick-Ass.Starring Nicolas Cage who has also been in other classic flicks, DriveAngry 3D 2011, Knowing 2009, Grinhouse 2007, Face/Off 1997, Con Air1997, The Rock 1996, Leaving Las Vegas 1995, Wild at Heart 1990 andRumblefish 1983.Also starring Aaron Johnson.Also starring Chloe Moretz who was also in another classic flick, TheAmityville Horror 2005.I enjoyed the violent scenes.If you enjoyed this as much as I did then check out other classicsuperhero flicks, Batman 1966, The Dark Knight 2008, Iron Man 2008,Spider-Man 2 2004, Superman Returns 2006 and X-Men: The Last Stand2006.