Disclaimer – This being my first ever full length review, pardon my French. Ardon Pardon come to my garden. And yes, I haven't read the comic Kick-Ass. Or 'graphic novel' if you'd prefer to call it that.
Kick-Ass
It is a superhero movie nothing like what you've ever seen before. It has got no bulky, hoarse voiced macho men. Its got no super futuristic weapons. The heroes don't fly. In 'Kick-Ass' what you end up seeing is a bunch of kids who thrash real gangsters, and thrash them good. They don't care how old they are, they do what they need to do. Kick some ass.
This story is about Dave Lizewski(played by Aaaron Johnson), an average high school kid, with very few friends, no skills to talk up a woman and he even gets bullied by the other kids. But what he's got is love for comic books which when combined with building frustration over his inability to do anything cool, can be quite, lame. He gets this stupid gooey looking green colored costume and names himself Kick-Ass. He's got no style, no skills, but again, what he's got is, is a good heart and the will to do good things and not just stand and watch people do wrong things. But while doing this he gets his ass kicked big time! He looks like Ass-Kicked rather than Kick-Ass.
But then come our real heroes. Damon Macready/Big Daddy(played by Nicholas Cage) and Mindy Macready/Hit Girl(played superbly by Chloe Moretz) are a father daughter duo who want to avenge the death of the wife/mother and during that process make this world a better place. Damon very calmly shoots at his daughter, who's wearing a bulletproof vest, just to prepare her if there ever is a situation like this in the future. They play with guns and the girl knows inside out about glocks, tommies, bazookas and what not. She plays with a knife as if its a doll. She is this cute little 11 year old girl what when she gets down to killing people, she can be mean. Now both of them see Kick-Ass getting his ass kicked so they decide help him and form a sort of alliance to fight crime.
Now I won't spill any more details out for you here, but will they be able to defeat the ganglord who caused Big Daddy to become a vigilante in the first place? Will Kick-Ass finally get to be a hero? Will he get the girl of his dreams? Watch to find out. Its a good entertaining film, a refreshing watch. Its got a lot of disturbing images which include a violent 11-year old girl hurling abuses at the bad guys and using cuss words in general. All this might look a little disturbing to the viewers and might send out the wrong message to kids everywhere. But lets not worry about the kids as they are not supposed to watch an R-rated film in the first place, so you can't really blame the director of the film. Its art. It's meant to be subjective. It's meant to challenge the norms. But she has played the role of her life and she looks to be a promising little actress who can really make it big in the future. Nicholas Cage is finally acting his age by not being some stupid burning bike-borne killer. The music just blows you away, with a very unusual mix of classics and modern remixes which are put into the scenes in a very effective manner which really jacks up the viewers enthusiasm towards the particular scene and involves him. All in all a good job by Matthew Vaughn who delivers another good product. I wonder when will he get a good BO hit. Its his third movie which is particularly good and interesting but like the other two this hasn't really garnered the money it deserves. I'll be waiting for Kick-Ass 2.
Hit Girl: Show's over, motherfuckers.
4/5
Sir Rachit Varma
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