Am I getting old or something?

Rating: 4/10 (19 June 2010)

I had heard lots of good things about this. Random reviewers on the interwebs, professional critics and my friends all seem to love this. Obviously, I had to see what the hype was all about but I was also careful not to keep my expectations too high so that I wouldn't be disappointed. Guess what, I was disappointed.
Now, I wasn't expecting an intriguing deep psychological movie or anything. I wanted to see a fun 'popcorn' movie with exciting action scenes and a nice portion of good humour. But the movie failed to deliver this for quite a few reasons. Firstly, even though there were some funny moments, a lot of the humour was based on swearing and sexual references (surprise, surprise). However, the humour itself is on short supply as a lot of the movie is wasted on drama and sappiness, something a popcorn movie should not have more than a few minutes of. Plus, the violence is a little too gruesome to actually fit into a fun movie. Just put the equation together and think about what we have here. I'll use 'Hit-girl' as an example. A strong little girl who constantly swears and takes part in all kinds of messed up violence, but also manages to have a sappy, dramatic history. Awww... how cute... NOT. Perhaps the movie should be named 'Hit-girl', because other than the fact that 'Kick-ass' is narrating and is simply in more scenes than her, there is nothing to insinuate that he is the main character. 'Hit-girl' had a much more important role in the story. But anyways, none of the characters are really likable, there way too much use of loud music in the a lot of the scenes, and nothing in particular sticks out about the whole film.
This movie did not live up to my expectations, let alone the hype. It did keep me entertained, but not in a mind blowing way. Even though the story gave the movie some potential, it turned out to be pretty average.