Kick-Ass is one of the best comic book movies I have ever seen!

Rating: 9/10 (18 September 2010)

I have seen a lot of comic book movies over the years. Some have been pretty good, and some have been pretty bad (Watchmen) I really wasn't that interested in seeing Matthew Vaughn's new comic book flick Kick-Ass in the beginning because it looked like another parody comic book film just like Mystery Men from the cheesy 1990s.
However, my friends all told me what a decent surprise it was, and so I checked it out for myself and man was a surprise it was.
Kick-Ass involved a young teenager living in NYC who wonders why no one has ever tried to be a superhero and after buying a wet suit over the internet he decides to become one. Little does he know that being a superhero in real life is much different than one in a comic book.
The biggest surprise is that Kick-Ass isn't even the main butt kicker in the film, that honor goes to a tween titan named Hit Girl, probably the deadliest child action hero ever put on the big screen. Her father, Big Daddy, is played by Nicholas Cage in easily his best role in years. The ending is so over the top it has to be seen to be believed.
I can't give enough praise to Kick-Ass. It takes the super hero genre and turns it on it's knees, it's easily one of the year's biggest surprises and I can definitely say that it's a much better film than last year's Watchmen was! Kick-Ass definitely lives up to it's name