I’m sure I’m not the first reviewer to tag the new Mathew Vaughn film Kick-Ass as being “Superbad meets Kill Bill : Volume 1“.
It’s got all the winning formulae from order viagra both those films, for all the good right reasons, and mingles them together into the perfect combination of geek-comedy and ultra-violent-action to scratch that very particular kind of itch. And by that itch, I mean this is a film that will most likely include fans of things like the buy prescription drugs online without prescription Buffy q buy cialis online universe, Sin City, anything Tarantino as well as most of the new-millennium teen comedy genre (the likes of which you’d normally how to get cialis Order Kamagra without a prescription find Seth Rogan or Michael Cera hanging out in).
The story basically follows an average nobody kid, really into his comic books, who decides to see what woul d ha
ppen when he put on a dodgy homemade superhero costume and head out on the streets of New York to save the world. He has no powers, no training, no fancy toys, viagra natural and understandably gets his ass hammered pretty hard, while in the process becoming an overnight cialis ordering shop zithromax internet celebrity after h is first triumphant encounter
is put up on YouTube.
The rest of what follows involves him getting tangled up with a couple of other nobody-superheroes in their revenge-trip against some local mafia mobsters….
Sounds pretty tame, but for this type of film, it’s executed fairly well and fluently (apart from an oddly dead-boring patch for about 20 minutes, two-thirds of the way through).
But what really pushes the film over the edge is not the titular character played by Aaron Johnson, but his pint-sized supporting character Hit-Girl played by Chloe Moretz (who you’ll low price levitra remember best as the plucky opinionated younger sister in 500 Days of Summer). She completely steals the show, and part of me was wishing the entire film
was about her character and not the nerdy teens.
Why?
She’s a 10yo killing machine who swears like a trooper and dispatches pretty much every bad guy in the film in an abnormally violent buy viagra online discount way – violent in a way that even if we were watching an adult in a QT film do the same thing we’d wince, but coming from a 10yo…. awesome.
And by “swears like a trooper”, I’m not talking your regular Hollywood tameness : F-bombs are nothing for Hit-Girl, dropping the C-bomb itself very early into her screen buy buy cialis pills generic viagra viagra | buy cialis domain | buy generic levitra online time.
By far one of the most entertaining characters on screen in a long time, Hit Girl slays this film, leaving even veterans like Nicolas Cage (as her Father) scrambling to keep up with her on screen.
Honestly, this isn’t the best movie I’ve ever seen, and even after an hour and a half of laughs I was still feeling like I’d had an average-yet-entertaining movie experience.
At least, until the finale.
Give Kick-Ass the time it deserves to set up the last 20 minutes of the film. Yes, the romance is entirely unbelievable and a passe departure from the comic-book source material.
Yes, some of the violence early on is decidedly fake, and yes, McLovin’ isn’t that awesome as the pseudo-nemesis in the film.
But the final fight sequence, as in Kill Bill, is brilliant enough to allow wading through the mediocrity of a lot of the rest of the film, and for me, completely pulls the rest of the film right onto a path heading toward Cult Film status.
Definitely worth a look, though if you’re tempted to take any youngsters along with you (since there’s a 10yo character in the film after all…) do think again, unless you’re quite happy with them yelling C**T around your house for the next week trying to slice your legs off with their ninja swords.
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