Didn't Work

Rating: 3/10 (18 April 2010)

Had looked forward to seeing this movie but was really disappointed.
It seemed to me that the makers didn't know what they were trying to create: a teen-comedy? a comic-based actioner? an uber-violent fable? None of these worked.
I thought all the characters did their stuff well: Nicolas Cage and, of course, Chloe Moretz were fun to watch but the in the end, the overall package was well short of satisfactory.
Others might disagree but I felt very uncomfortable watching a 10 year old girl being beaten up (quite realistically) on screen. Maybe this film wasn't intended for fathers of ten year old girls?