Great light movie

Rating: 9/10 (29 July 2010)

I loved it.
All I knew before watching it was that it had something to do with normal people trying to be superheros (I usually try not to even watch the trailers so that they don't influence me and they don't make me expect more than what the movie has to offer).
I think about this movie as follows: take Watchmen, do a low-cgi-version out of it, mix to it a few pieces of American Pie, add how you would try to behave when being a superhero plus some bloody Tarantino-shots for one of the characters, contour the whole with some interesting music and you've got the movie.
It was like with Zombieland - in both cases I expected a quite bad movie, but in the end they were quite good, not serious, with a story that unfolded without any problems, nice camera shots, nice music, good actors, happy feeling at the end - a profiled movie. Not one of those that mix everything trying to be OK for every kind of public.
As I always doubt if the person who wrote the review has the same taste that I have, here are a few more or less recent movies I liked: Watchmen, The girl with the dragon tattoo, Let the right one in, Frost nixon, Zombieland, Children of men, Gone baby gone, Snatch. This of course excludes older ones, even classics like 2001 Space odyssey or Seven samurai.
Nicolas Cage does his job - not more and not less. Chapeau. The little girl (Chloe Moretz) is great, probably the best character in the movie. The main actor (Aaron Johnson) was in my opinion flat. He could have been a bit better. The bad guy(s) fit well in their roles.
10 out of 10 would have been with a better main character and towards the end a badder bad character.