Kick-ass

A friend of mine recently wrote about "The Flip Side" of Kick-Ass. Which made me wonder, I've seen that movie three times, why didn't I write something on this blog of mine?
So that's what I'm here to do.

Hit Girl is my hero. Big Daddy is a bad ass. Kick-Ass is...brave.

The movie was one of the better satire's that I've seen in a long time. While the acting was not perfect, it was very well done. In my option Cloe Moretz stole the show. She was the reason that I went to see the movie three times in theaters. That's unprecedented for me.
And I've seen this young actress in 500 Days of Summer. And she was fantastic. After a look at her IMDB page you'll realize that she is the voice of Darby on My friends Tigger and Pooh. And I absolutely love that fact!
She goes from cute, sweet, nice, and innocent to crazy, amazing, more-bad-ass-than-I'll-ever-be, and foul-mouthed. It is just some beautiful irony.

They also shot some spectacular scenes in this film. Everything from good old action movie slow-mo, to very trippy first-person view. The cinematography was just great. Not quite as experimental as 500 Days of Summer, but nearly as stunning.

While there are some reviews out there that find the movie disturbing, which I can understand, I think they've missed the point. Yes it was a dark satire made for adults. And yes there are going to be those fucking stupid parents that let their six-year-old child watch it. But what's the difference if it's an eleven-year-old girl doing the killing or a forty-year-old man? Killing is killing, no matter how you look at it.

So basically, go see this movie if you are not on the squeamish side. Yes it's violent, yes it's crude, but it was one of my favorite movies in a long time. And that does not happen all that often.