WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS FOR "KICK-ASS" AHEAD
Interestingly, the first movie I will review this year turned out to be an older movie, the 2010 superhero film Kick-Ass. Because the movie is a couple of years old and some other plot-related reasons, I've decided I'd review this movie best in detailed and spoiler-filled ways, so if you haven't watched it yet, I advise you not to continue reading. Unless you want the movie spoiled for you, but honestly - it was spoiled for me and it didn't ruin the experience much. So Aaron Johnson stars as Dave Lizewski, a regular high school student, who decides to become a superhero. He first learns that being a superhero is not as easy as it seems, but after a few supporting characters, such as bad-ass Nicolas Cage as former cop turned superhero Big Daddy, Chloe Grace Moretz as his even more bad-ass daughter turned ninja, Mark Strong as douchy crime boss Frank D'Amico and his Christopher Mintz-Plasse as his son, wanna-be crime boss turned fake superhero Chris D'Amico enter the mix, you've got one explosive and hell of a fun movie ride in front of you.
First of all, I think Aaron Johnson as Dave Lizewski / Kick-Ass was great. He pulls off both the awkward, comedic and more serious, inspiring moments of the characters. He also looks like the kind of guy who would try to be a superhero, but is also likeable enough to root for and for the girls to cherish. Now I know everyone is praising Chloe Grace Moretz as Hit Girl, and I have to do that as well, as she is unbelieveably bad-ass and the best actor in the film, but I still don't want to waste too much time on her, as everibody knows she's awesome and I can't adress that furthermore. Mark Strong is as always an effective villain, Nicolas Cage gives his best performance in years, and I also admit that I really liked Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Red Mist. I don't know if it his extremely cool name or his ironically-cool appearance, but I did feel kinda sorry for him in the end.
But what really makes the movie is the way it's stylized. This is probably the second most stylized film I've ever seen (right behind Scott Pilgrim vs The World) and it really makes it look like a comic book. Not like a comic book movie, a real comic book turned into film. Kick-Ass isn't triying to be anything more then that, and it very much suceeds, as with all those awesomely directed action sequences, costumography and music it just makes you believe and want to believe into a world where teenagers are superheroes and beat up people with battons, ride around in Mistmobiles and fuck up bad guy's places with jetpacks. It just deepens down that hidden wish inside you to be a superhero, but at the same time showing enough inflicted pain into the characters to turn away anyone who might have been seriously thinking about doing something like this.
Another thing I have to touch on is the violence. Even tough some scenes are really tough to watch and as previously adressed, really turns you away from ever being a superhero, the movie woudn't have been nearly as good and stylized as it is without the violence. Seeing a guy flapping around with battons and beating up people by mistake, a man's body exploding in a microwawe, a man taking down a warehouse in epic slowmotion-to-fastmotion blending, an 11-yr old girl ripping out people's throats and shooting them through other guy's mouths with spaghetti western music in the background just makes it all so more stylized and deepens the comic-book feel. It is a little weird in the beginning tough, when Kick-Ass gets stabbed and hit by a car, and you don't really as you're supposed to laugh or not, as you've been laughing at people crashing on cabs off skyscrapers and getting aneurysms during breakfast for the past few minutes, but further on the movie does nicely border the serious and the comedic violence.
Overall, Kick-Ass is a very funny, spectacular and stylized comic-book tale, as comic-book tales should be, if they ever want to be anything more than comic-book tales. I am now also in further anticipation of the movie's sequel, Kick-Ass 2: Balls To The Wall, that is supposed to hit theatres this summer. I can't wait to see more Kick-Ass and Hit Girl working together, Christopher Mintz-Plasse as a full-fledged villain, known as The Mother Fucker and Jim Carrey in an actual movie. I really hope they do keep the feel of the first movie and everything as it should be, even tough Matthew Vaugh won't be directing. To be honest, I'm kinda angry at that motherfucker - I tought he would have to choose between the sequel of this and the sequel of X-Men: First Class, but he decides to drop out on both. Oh well.
Total rating: 8.5 / 10
So what did you think of Kick-Ass? Did you like it, dislike it, why? Are you in anticipation of its sequel? Comment below, let me know!
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