Kick ass is getting a lot of rave reviews lately, but I always take these things with a pinch of salt (Twilight gets rave reviews for crying out loud.) But after I saw it I've got to say, they were right.
This was something I knew a little about before since Kick Ass is based off a comic strip of the same name. So I had a vague synopsis of the story but didn't know much more than that. I like to think of the story as a much more lighthearted version of The Watchmen. Crime is running amock and a few masked vigilantes take to the streets to try fight it off.
What I wasn't expecting from this film was the amount of violent deaths, I thought this was based around a Batman-esque superhero but the vigilantes do end up killing a lot of people.
What did I like about it? I loved the story line very fun to watch but still remains pretty tense at times. Nick Cage did a pretty good job at being a superhero dad which was very cool to see (this is also something I didn't like but more on that later..) I thought Aaron Johnson did a really good job as the loser by day hero by night, and you did genuinely feel sorry for him when he gets his ass handed to him when he first starts out.
What didn't I like? Well there wasn't much, but Nick Cage did have a tendency to go. a. little bit. Shatner. In his delivery of some of his lines. Which was strange but other than that he did a good job. That was about it actually, if I watched it again I'd probably start to pick up on things but that's just the media studies part of my brain the refuses to be quiet when I'm watching.
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