Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Chloë Grace Moretz

Nicolas Cage

Lyndsy Fonseca

Mark Strong

Deborah Twiss

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Elizabeth McGovern

Omari Hardwick

Xander Berkeley

Garrett M. Brown

Clark Duke

Evan Peters

Sophie Wu

Stu 'Large' Riley

Michael Rispoli

Corey Johnson

Kenneth Simmons

Anthony Desio

Randall Batinkoff

Dexter Fletcher

Yancy Butler

Craig Ferguson

Jason Flemyng

Adrian Martinez

Joe Bacino

Johnny Hopkins

Ohene Cornelius

Carlos Besse Peres

Russell Bentley

Tamer Hassan

Tim Plester

Hubert Boorder

Christopher McGuire

Max White

Dean Copkov

Jacob Cartwright

Maurice DuBois

Dana Tyler

Omar A. Soriano

Katrena Rochell

Kofi Natei

Dan Duran

Louis Young

Val Jobara

Quinn Smith

Kirk Tingblad

Peter Bartfay

Jason Salkey

Daphne Cheung

Russell De Rozario

Annie Cooper

Adam Blampied

Wayne Curnew

Tangara Jones

Rab Affleck

Alexander Hathaway

Allen J. Polley

Mattias Lindahl

Tarquin Pack

Tina Jones

Andrew Watson

Darren Holland

Michael Maroussas

Fae Hammond

Sarah Bicknell

David Smith

Jason Swanscott

David Reid

Ilona Herman

Louis Elman

Mark Appleby

Andy Taylor

Ron Bedrosian

Kevin Fraser

Karen Sherriff-Brown

Abigail Barbier

Tim Maurice-Jones

Peter Burgis

John King

Arthur Graley

Rob Prynne

Brad Pitt

Pietro Scalia

Jane Goldman

Matthew Vaughn

Adam Bohling

Kris Thykier

Henry Jackman

John Murphy

Marius de Vries

Ilan Eshkeri

Bradley James Allan

Sammy Sheldon

Sarah Halley Finn

Ben Davis

Jon Harris

Ian Neil

Eddie Hamilton

Lucinda Syson

John Romita Jr.

Andy Richards

Mark Millar

Jeremy Kleiner

Danny Sheehan

Jo Gross

Tamsin Jeffrey

Chris Burdon

Nicole Young

Pierre Lagrange

Annie Penn

Stephen Marks

Christoph Bauschinger

Doug Cooper

Sam Renton

Dean O'Toole

Simon Hayes

Daniel Smith

Todd Kleparski

Asa Shoul

Demetri Jagger

Dominic Thomson

Matt Curtis

Ian Thomas

Victoria Banks

Barrie Gower

Stephen McLaughlin

Liam Howlett

Joe Howard

Gavin Rose

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I thought this movie was a super comedy movie but I was wrong. I didn't know it was a pretty serious movie with real killings and stuff. It was like Kill Bill minus the really gross things. It was not a silly movie after all.


The character Kick-Ass was pretty stupid. I mean a high school nobody trying to be somebody. Of all the things he could think of, it's being a super hero. And then there's Big Daddy and Hit Girl who had the real stunts. Their characters were pretty funny. I mean I can't think of any words to describe Nicolas Cage's character. A good daddy who doesn't know how to bring up a girl. And then there's Chloe Moretz. Wow. She did all the action in the movie. I mean this girl is only 13 years old. I'm a fan. And then there's Red Mist who I think is very silly like Kick Ass as well.


My rate for this movie is A.

Dung Nguyen

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Geeky "Dave" (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his two pals go through life at high school being bullied and reading comic books. Finally fed up being put upon, he buys a superhero suit online and heads out into the night hoping that his green lycra will deter the city's nasties. After his umpteenth beating he is rescued by a like-minded father and daughter team who take him under their own wing and set about training him. Meantime, the kingpin of crime "D'Amico" (Mark Strong) is running the town with a ruthless rod of iron, watched adoringly by his hapless son "Chris" (Christopher Mintz-Plasse). Surprisingly, the former trio start to have some success against this arch-baddie so battle lines are soon drawn and, well you can guess the rest. Up to a point, this works. ATJ (especially with glasses and curly hair) is very easy on the eye and there is a degree of chemistry between his character and his cohort "Mindy" (Chloë Grace Moretz) all under the tutelage of a rather underplayed Nicolas Cage as her dad "Damon". Sadly, the initially quirky start that sees real people aspiring to make their community better - without the ability to fly or laser things with their eyes - peters out quite quickly and the jokes that are quite attitudinally sharp at the start just become a little more puerile and expletive-dependent. Mr. Strong isn't really much of a baddie and the combat scenes are well and truly prolonged to the point where they end up a bit repetitive and dull. It has it's moments, this movie - it's generally quite entertaining but at all but two hours in length it just runs out of ideas around the half way mark and only just struggles over the line.

A blast!

What a great near two hours this is! <em>'Kick-Ass'</em> is a fantastic superhero movie, one that doesn't take itself seriously and that is actually the biggest compliment I can make. It's such a fun movie! That isn't its only strength though, there are some awesome action sequences and the costumes, albeit silly, are great.

Aaron (Taylor-)Johnson is a terrific choice of lead, this is the best work I've seen from that guy thus far - up there with his amusing performance in 2022's <em>'Bullet Train'</em>. The same could be said for Chloë Grace Moretz, who is equally as brilliant. She brings the character of Hit-Girl (arguably should've been her movie tbh) to life incredibly well, suiting both the comedy and the superhero elements.

Nicolas Cage is entertaining too, in a role that is undoubtedly right up his alley. That opening scene with him and Moretz is very fun. Everyone onscreen does worthy work, the standout being Mark Strong - a welcomed staple (among others) of director Matthew Vaughn's filmography, of course.

Hopefully the sequel didn't disappoint.

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Kick-Ass( 2010)

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Written by ohlalipop on Thu Feb 09 2017

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