From all the films I’ve seen lately this is one of the ones that I liked the most. Kick-Ass was a very fun, sometimes freaky, comic-book based action movie that makes you smile, cringe and is just generally a great story. Probably mostly seen as a geek movie, the only people I wouldn’t recommend this to is anyone who doesn’t like violence, ‘kids with guns’ or gets easily offended by swearing.
In a whole, anyone who doesn’t really mind violence or profanity should really enjoy this fast paced movie. It has a great general plot, nice character development, well placed misunderstanding, secrecy and very cool vilains. From everything in the story (the violence, the treachery, and many other small things) only one plot point disturbed me, and that was Hitgirl. She is a kid of around 10 or 11 who has guns. And is good at using them. It’s freaky.
Other than that, my general opinion is that this was a great film, it even prompted me to starting the graphic novel. Up to now, what I can recognize is that the film did the initial buildup in a much more refined way and that it keeps true to the story and style, but the way it is exposed in the graphic novel seems more raw, in a good way. Another thing I love about both is the way that Kick-Ass’ conflicts and problems are portrayed. This guy is a regular teenager with a normal life who had his mother die a few years before. He was way into comic books and one day just figured, why the hell doesn’t anyone become a hero just to help the fellow man. His changes of heart, obsessions, surges of adrenaline and cowardice/bravery/stupidity are given into reality very realistically.
I really don’t want to give plot points away, so I’ll end with this: for me this film was widely underrated and it didn’t get the recognition it deserved, sure it was very controversial in what it portrayed, but hell many movies show these things under different lights. It was rated R in the US, 15 in the UK and PG in France…so if that consensus shows you anything. Fun, fast-paced action film, a definite watch in my books.
