Dave Lizewski is a teenage comic book geek. He has a crush on a girl called Katie and wonders why no one actually dresses up as a superhero and fights crime. So he gets himself a costume and wanders the streets and promptly gets beaten up, stabbed and hit by a car and nearly killed. After being patched up in hospital and with metal plates holding his body together and with nerve damage that means he can now take a hell of a beating he takes to the streets again…
Kick A$$ is yet another in the line of really good and pretty faithful adaptations of comic books that Hollywood seem to be getting right at the moment. Based on the first 8 issues of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr’s ultraviolent and foul mouthed series this is very much NOT a kids movie.
This is just a great piece of entertainment. It’s everything you want in a movie, it’s funny, it’s brutal, it’s violent, there’s a 12 year old girl using the ‘C’ word and it has Nic Cage, dress as a pseudo-Batman doing an Adam West impression. This was a film that had a great reaction from the audience in the cinema with me; there was even actual cheering and clapping as the film reached its rousing climax. You definitely come out of the film with a bit of a skip in your step, talking about all the best bits and not once do you think, “wouldn’t it be cool to dress up as a superhero”.
Aaron Johnson is great as Dave Lizekski. Just the right combination of geek and pretty boy, with some great comic timing and bewilderment at the world he is in, he is a great heart for the movie. Christopher Mintz-Plasse is good fun too. He has some great geeky scenes. Lyndsy Fonseca as Dave’s object of affection Katie is really good too. To be fair she doesn’t have a huge amount to do but she certainly ticks all the right boxes. Mark Strong as the baddie is terrific. He’s definitely carving out a niche as for himself as the ‘go to’ baddie as he’s now played the baddie in Sherlock Holmes, this film and soon to be seen in the new version of Robin Hood and he’s also landed the main villain role in the film version of Green Lantern. Nic Cage is pretty cool too, his scenes out of Big Daddy costume are funny but once he’s doing ‘that’ voice it’s just even funnier.
But the plaudits for this film have to go to Chloe Moretz as Hit Girl. She is absolutely AWESOME and anything I try and write about how good she is won’t do her justice. So I won’t bother. Every scene she is in is fantastic, whether it’s an action scene or not, but OMG she must be brought back if there’s a sequel to this. You could not have a Kick A$$ 2 without Hit Girl.
A terrifically entertaining film with lashing of violence, blood, swearing, lots of geeky references and above all it’s just very, very, very funny.
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