Swara Kadir
12Aug11
So did you make that joke up all by yourself or...?
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Brent Schaus
26May12
Kick-Ass surprised me with some very moving moments. One sees Nicolas Cage in the kind of role now tailored for his dementia. McLovin and John Lennon have some funny hissy fights. Hit Girl, like River in Firefly and Serenity, is where the real food for thought lies.
JEDIDARRICK
24Mar12
A rare adaptation that far surpasses the source material it was based on. Great story, interesting characters, funny satire and fun action sequences make this the best comic book movie of the decade (as of now). Check it out to see why.
angiebasuki
22Jan12
another unexpectedly great movie, i watched it about 1,5 years ago while i was in my leisure time, gonna watch anything in cinema. yup, and it was new for super heroes movies, they made it in fun-thrilling-teenage way. if you watched Watchmen -the humanity inside superheroes-, Kick-Ass is the opposite -the superheroic inside humans-. (me love them both!) me cant wait for the upcoming sequel (hopefully this year)!!!
Michael Harbour
15Jan12
Masterfully realizes, and even betters, the comic book it is based on. Escalating, outrageous violence. Cathartic humor. Characters with enough of a footing in reality that we buy into their world. This equals Watchmen as a faithful adaptation and probably surpasses it in succeeding on it's own (of course it's a much simpler story).
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PolarisDiB
12Jan12
Damn good movie; both has a surprising end-game and is a lot darker/morally ambiguous than you would think. As the characters start piling up you realize they're all at cross-purposes, and shit gets real real fast. Some scenes have you laughing your ass off while others make you sick to your stomach. Definitely a movie ahead of the concept its parodying. --PolarisDiB
willythesalesman
6Jan12
the movie itself I found pretty bad. but once you question the morality of it, there is no hope. no star movie
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lasttimeisaw
1Dec11
love it! superb action sequences and have no resistance towards the Hitgirl! a 9/10, my review: http://mubi.com/reviews/24834
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Liam Peters
30Nov11
Silly and stylistically grating spin on the superhero tale, this comedy benefits from another solid performance by Moretz - she's really great in pretty much everything she's done so far - and a just-the-right-side-of-charming turn from Johnson. The pacing is slightly off in the early and middle stages of the piece and the story arc is never quite strong enough to sustain its nigh two hour running time.
Heidi Anderson
10Nov11
Long stretches of this film don't really work for me, but the parts that do work work really, really well.
Gaviero
1Oct11
Not any easy film to rate. It doesn't so much encounter third-act problems as a third act moral black hole. I like this film. I enjoy it's candyish take on the obstacles of real-life super-heroism until it balks at the ultimate real-life obstacle of superheroism: the mental effects of going from high-school dweeb to killer (even if those being killed had it comin').
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Maegatron
29Aug11
Loved this. great cinematography in Big Daddy's action scene. Great soundtrack. Only Movie I liked Nicholas Cage in...mind you I have yet to see adaptation.
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Nick Scholer
6Jun11
Doesn't understand what tone it's going for. Didn't like it on the first viewing, liked it even less the second time...
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Nate B.
16May11
Here's the thing...I'm torn about this movie. On one hand, it has a certain amount of visceral impact that makes it pulse-pounding and memorable, but on the other hand the entire thing flaunts its inhumanity so much it's nearly sickening, with little reprieve or heart. At least it's a step up from the hugely immature and effed up graphic novel.
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Ghost Dinosaur
18May11
Except the graphic novel is actually an indictment of superhero power worship fantasies, all indicationsl of which are completely stripped from the movie so we can root for sociopathic fascism and laugh callously as dead bodies stack up.
Maximilian Bercovicz
27Mar11
A little predictable, but, nonetheless, a really interesting take on the superhero genre.
Michael Gildea
20Mar11
Not at all what I was expecting. It had a lot of the goofiness the trailer promised but it was also a hell of a lot of fun and also offered a shitload of brutality from an unlikely place. Kick-Ass was also frustrating because Nicolas Cage (the Mr. Magoo of actors) was one of the best parts of the movie. Just when you're about to write him off, he does something great that forces you to give him another chance...
Marcelo Baldin
20Mar11
It's a mix between a dork movie, a superhero movie and a serious violent movie. From all of those, I think it shouldn't be so dork.
josiahduke
16Mar11
An interesting statement on the modern cartoon/marvel/anime/video game violence and our culture. It's like Scott Pilgrim's bastard evil twin brother. Funny at times, and consistently (and rightly so) appalling.
