This is just not right at all...

Rating: 1/10 (19 December 2010)

Kick Ass is a failure. As someone already stated on, the main issue is that it doesn't decide whether it should be a funny movie or an action/serious type movie. Actually the opening gives you a hint, like am I supposed to laugh at a guy committing suicide? I guess watchers are expected to, as the off-voice present it as funny. After that few minutes later you get a father shooting his 11 year old daughter in the chest so that she gets used to. Child soldier, another matter of big unleashed laughs it seems. Whatever.
And then, the point where I definitely stopped wondering myself whether this movie was supposed to have anything of "real" : the accident. The poor guy gets stabbed (here I was sure, it was serious, looked pretty bad), he gets involved in a car accidents and half of his body has to be fixed artificially. Needless to say we are still supposed to find it funny, and not wondering how his poor old man could pay for the hospital (I just watched Sicko... how different!)
And don't tell me it's not supposed to take place in America... Actually I wonder how such a movie can get such a high score? I mean, is there so many people with no brain?
If people however want to see what could have been done, I invite them to watch "True Romance", a movie in which a regular guy becomes a "super hero" and takes huge risks to help his lover. Now that is a good movie, with a real tribute to comic books.