Chloe shines

Rating: 7/10 (8 May 2012)

Chloe Grace Moretz is Hit Girl, an eleven year old girl trained by her father, Big Daddy(Nicolas Cage) in the use of various weapons. She befriends a nerd named Dave who calls himself Kick Ass, after reading too many comic books. He makes a silly looking costume and becomes a "superhero," and in his first encounter he is stabbed and run over by a car. He gets into a fight with Rasul, a drug dealer, and as he is being beaten, Hit Girl and her father come to the rescue and kill the criminal.
The crime fighting duo, with the help of Big Daddy, an ex police officer who was framed as a drug dealer and therefore has a vendetta against his perpetrators. The plot is fairly complicated for a comic book inspired action film and although a kid leads the cast, the violence is too strong for young viewers. Moretz is someone to watch for, as she proved later in Let Me In, the American remake of the Swedish vampire movie, Let the Right One in. She and Cage make Kick Ass worth watching.