Kick-Ass (review part 2 of 2)

Kick-Ass (review part 2 of 2)

First off, Chloe Moretz is amazing as the 11 year-old Hit-Girl. Moretz carries herself extremely well in the disturbing role. Not for one moment did her acting seem annoying or fake. She is certainly a step up from many of the child actors today.

Hit-Girl is both a crowd-pleasing character and a disturbing one. Despite being a young little girl, Hit-Girl kills people just like what is displayed in The Matrix. Matthew Vaughn does a good job convincing us that this little girl can kill people. Hit-Girl uses her size to her advantage.

At one point, she kills a hooker for no real good reason. The hooker did have a weapon, but she was not much of a threat to Hit-Girl, but Hit-Girl runs her threw anyway. We kind of get a chuckle out of it, but the Hit-Girl thing is much deeper than being a kick ass fighter.

Damon MacCready (Cage) has brainwashed Hit-Girl into becoming a killer. It is one thing to become a “Punisher” type character yourself, but to bring your very own daughter into it is just morally wrong. Big Daddy and Hit-Girl are twisted versions of Batman and Robin. I am aware that’s what Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. are trying to do as well as try to push buttons. And, for the movie, they partly keep that creepy aspect of these characters present in the film version.

Yet, the comic book took it a step further, Big Daddy is more of a creep than the film version. In the movie, Cage/Big Daddy was a former cop that lost his wife to suicide, while he was being framed for corruption by the mob. So, he takes his daughter under his wing and they fight the mob. In the comic book, Big Daddy claims that’s the same story, but there is a catch. His wife was never dead and he was never an ex-cop. So, it makes the character of Big Daddy rather a pathetic character in the comic and tragic one in the movie.

This change probably is probably due to the fact Nicolas Cage played the character vastly different from the comic book roots.

Anyway, Kick-Ass is a fun little movie with a few flaws. But, overall it is a very enjoyable movie.

Grade: B