Brilliant, immoral and a lot more...

Rating: 8/10 (5 May 2010)

The critic Charles Koplinski wrote, "Kick-Ass is only half right.", but let me put it this way, "Kick-Ass" is half brilliant, but it's half immoral, and lacks rhythm. When I left the theater I was amazed about how good this film was, but then I started thinking about how many immoral messages and lack of depth (Which as OK when the movie didn't take itself too seriously, but then the second part came, and it started being a real super-hero movie, and, for a few minutes, boring) that it also contains. But when you see so many ignorant messages in such acclaimed movies like "Avatar", in this movie industry, that seems full of stupid people with diluted ideas, it was a relief that in the end of the movie they didn't say "Save the green!" or any of that childish crap.
It's the story of Dave Lizewski (Johnson), an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan with a few friends and who lives alone with his father. His life is not very difficult and his personal trials not that overwhelming. However, one day he makes the simple decision to become a super-hero even though he has no powers or training.
Right in the first sequences you can see that this movie is different than the others, probably because of it's style (That can be great sometimes), and narrative technique. The direction is mostly great. The action scenes and extremely well shot, except for the one where Hit-Girl use the night vision in the warehouse (It looked more like if we were watching someone playing "Doom"). The violence in this movie is well put sometimes, but at other times, very disturbing (And i'm not easily disturbed).
The screenplay is far from being great... Maybe it's good, but not something that improves the movie, on the contrary, it can ruin the movie if you look in some different points of view, but there is one thing that it really appreciated about the script... Right in the beginning we can see how dangerous Frank is, which was not present in other movies like "Ocean's Eleven" where Andy Garcia (The bad guy) spends the whole movie without killing a single person. Following the same grade, is the acting, that is great sometimes (Chloe Moretz, Mark Strong), sometimes good (Nicholas Cage, Aaron Johnson), and occasionally bad (Christopher Mintz-Plasse).
Another thing that stood out in the picture was that the movie looks cartoonish, without trying to be it every time, in this aspect, it works better than "Sin City", but not as good as "Spider-Man".
Verdict: Some may find it offensive, and I kind of understand them, but there is no doubt that this movie is entertaining, well directed and well acted, and worth watching.