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"Kick-Ass and Big Daddy are tied to a chair. Beaten and tortured by a group of Italian/American mobsters. For them, it's the end. says the thug with the zippo in hand, ready to burn them alive. A thudding noise. A bullet straight into the bad guy's head. The lights go out. A pint-sized girl bursts into the room, equipped with night vision goggles. The shot turns into a first-person view, worthy of the best FPS games. A musical crescendo. Little Hit-Girl begins her personal massacre. The musical background grows, quickens in rhythm, until it becomes a chilling melody. A black and white slow motion starts. The only color on screen is the fire that burns Big Daddy alive. The little avenger with purple hair takes down the last two henchmen...". This is one of the best-shot scenes in an action film, in at least 10 years.
"Kick-Ass", based on the comic by Mark Millar, is a truly remarkable action movie. Full of humor and great ideas. The plot revolves around a group of superheroes, not so super and not even so heroic. Ordinary people, tired of always being the favored prey of society's sharks. The protagonist is a simple student. An ordinary guy, who one day decides to buy a wetsuit and transform it into his costume. His goal? To fight what makes him a loser: the sense of impotence. It's the desire to act, to break free from the passivity of just "existing" that drives him into something too big for him, almost leading to his demise. And just when our hero seems doomed, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and Hit-Girl, father and daughter thirsty for revenge, come into play. Two improbable war machines, determined to defeat Frank D'Amico (an excellent Mark Strong) with all his gang of thugs.
Amid betrayals, shootouts, and ultra-violent fights (where little Hit-Girl will play the role of the lioness); the film maintains a frantic pace from start to finish, making room for some truly entertaining comedy-style scenes.
The film is very faithful to the excellent comic book, despite some substantial changes in the finale, which make the story more exaggerated (the jet-pack with gatling guns and the rocket launcher) and decidedly more spectacular. Kick-Ass, from a "wannabe" superhero, will discover the pleasure of killing, in the most brutal way possible, the dregs of humanity.
A special applause goes to those geniuses who translate movie titles, for not inventing bullshit like: "kick in the ass", "boot in the butt", or "ass-buster". Well done, guys!
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