You're Better off Watching "Watchmen"

Rating: 4/10 (16 December 2010)

First off, let me premise this by saying that I loved the concept of this film. When I was younger I imagined myself dressing up and going around fighting crime and cleaning up the neighborhood. I mean let's be honest, who didn't? Up till the middle of the film it seemed that's exactly the direction this movie was going. Kick-Ass got his ass kicked when he tried to save stop people from stealing a car because the only fighting he'd ever done was in his mind, and in there you know exactly what the bad guy is going to do. But in real life you have no idea that's why people get formal training. So I applauded Matthew Vaughn on this by making Kick-Ass totally worthless.
But then something changed. The entire mood of the film shifted and all of a sudden it turned into your standard comic book movie. Suddenly, Kick-Ass knows exactly what to do in situations, and don't get me started on the end of the film. All I'll say on that is, I don't think you can learn to pilot a jet-pack like that in 2 hours, or attach mini-guns to it and not fly COMPLETELY off course when you fire TWIN mini-guns from a tiny little jet-pack.
The most disturbing part of this film however is the little girl. I think the whole reason she was in there was merely for shock value. I wouldn't have this opinion of it if at the end of the film it would have been more realistic for her. You know, like how an 11 year old should react to killing multiple people in gruesome ways; you have a nervous breakdown and end up being hospitalized for most of your life. Had they ended it that way I would have been impressed, but ending it with her being completely fine, that's what finally did it for me.
So watch this if you enjoy a cheap laugh or easy thrill, but don't look at it for any more depth than that. If you want that, the Watchmen film is much more suited for a realistic look on Superheroes, even with Dr. Manhattan.