Hit-Girl is as cool as Clint Eastwood in A Fistful Of Dollars

Rating: 8/10 (26 April 2010)

I don't often write reviews but I just have to write this. Chloe Moretz absolutely owns every scene she's in as Hit-Girl in this movie. Every word that comes out of her mouth exudes coolness. The squint, the sneer, the pauses between words, the gestures. Who taught her to do that? Who was her acting coach? And the scene in the bowling ally with Nic Cage, where she started laughing just before she told him she was just messing with him, that expression was priceless. And the way she said "I never play" before the final confrontation, that little bit of a Christopher Walken mannerism, that was exquisite. I've seen Angelina Jolie in Mr and Mrs Smith and Wanted and let me tell you, as good as Jolie is, she's got nothing on this kid. Watching her reminds me the first time I watched Clint Eastwood in A Fistful Of Dollar. I kept telling myself, this guy must be the coolest guy ever to appear on screen. His every little gesture is absolutely magnetic. That's how I felt when I watch Chloe Moretz in Kick-Ass. Sadly there won't be a sequel, or so I hope, as she has grown too old to reprise the role.