A truly unique movie

Rating: 10/10 (20 February 2012)

Kick-Ass may not be the best superhero movie ever made, but it does have one quality that sets it apart from all others. There have been so very many superhero origin movies, but most are set in comic book universes where superheroism is already known, and so the emergent protagonists are treated as merely the new kid on the block. In Kick-Ass we get to see the actual emergence of the first ever superheros, and the inevitable surprised and - at first - incredulous attitude of both the general populace and the "bad guys".
This, for me, makes Kick-Ass probably the most original handing of superhero lore that has ever been presented.