Amazing movie, on par with Watchmen for me

Rating: 9/10 (16 April 2010)

I give this a 9/10 because it's a movie that doesn't take a graphic novel or comic book series and butcher it (i.e. Spiderman, loved the first two differences aside but the third was disgusting.) or the X-Men. Although varying in places from the comic books in which it's based, Kick-Ass stays true to the source material much more often than it doesn't, resulting in a great mixture of comedy, action, and suspenseful scenes that make you wonder what's going to happen next.
For those of you who think the violence is over the top and too graphic, you need only watch movies like Watchmen or any other R-rated comic-book film. Chances are the violence is there because it was there in the comics, as is the case with Kick-Ass. Dumbing down the violence for a movie based on an equally violent comic would be doing the true fans of the series a great injustice and at the end of the day, those who decide to tackle movies based on comic-books are often great fans themselves.
If you don't enjoy a lot of graphic violence, you can opt out of seeing this movie, but remember it's not there to be "hip" as some reviewers are saying, it's there because it's supposed to be there to keep the movie faithful to the source.
I hope this review helps!