Kick Ass - the film and everything else!

***May contain Spoilers – But then this isn’t really a review it’s why this film is now my Number one film**

A week last Saturday the BD was delivered over the next 9 days I have watched the film twice, seen the extensive making off and even watched the audio commentary with Mathew Vaughn.

Watching it on that Saturday, it dawned on me just how good this film really is. Actually good is the wrong word, it’s not good, it’s outstandingly brilliant.

It has everything going for it, the cast are brilliant, the script is perfect, the action is amazing, and the look of the film is stunning.

And then the final piece of the jigsaw the music, the score is without doubt my favourite soundtrack ever, amazing pieces of music from start to finish. Uplifting, menacing and each theme works perfectly for each character.

Couple that with the brilliant songs soundtrack as well and this film is pitch perfect.

Moments stick out in nearly every scene, the putting on of the costume, Kick Ass’s first fight when Big Daddy kills. The trip to Safe-House B, the final showdown, and the list goes on and on and on.

The chemistry in the cast is amazing. The scenes with Clark Duke, Aaron Johnson and Evan Peters are just superb. They look like they have been friends forever. The scene where they discuss the notion of being a super hero is brilliant and sets the tone for these 3 throughout the whole film.

Cage and Chloe Moretz, need to have a strong daughter father bond for this film to work, and they do it is perfectly. This relationship for me is key; it’s the main drive of the story. If this had not worked, looked fake I don’t think the movie would have worked. One of my favourite scenes is with these two, and I bet it’s one you would never guess.

Then we have the villains, Mark Strong delivers as he always does. His goons are perfect, Vaughn's band of gangsters always look the part. But he is practised at this and this group are great. Dexter Fletcher reprising is role of Cody from Layer Cake even brings along the yellow Range Rover.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse is another well cast actor, originally up for the Kick Ass role, Vaughn saw his chance to fill Red Mist’s character. Here again Mintz-Plasse and Strong show a strong father son bond, to compliment Cage and Moretz. Again the chemistry between Strong and Mintz-Plasse is perfect, they really deliver.

The rest of the cast are all really good as well.

The action throughout this film is superb, with Moretz stealing all the glory, her action scenes alone are worth watching this film.

The language is choice, but this is the world of comic book gangsters, so it fits, nothing seems forced and when Moretz delivers the C-Bomb it just works.

Aside all the action and violence this film is full of humour. Most of it gets funnier the more I watch it! When the 3 lads are together they just work of each other so well, they just bring a smile to my face. Then we have Cage doing an Adam West impression when he’s big Daddy, which is brilliant!

Mark Strong is not all about the hard man here. Vaughn gives him some comic moments, as funny as anything else in the film. As much as he is the bad man, you can’t help liking him, same goes for his son, you want to hate them but they both are such well written characters who just like them.

Vaughn plays with the emotions and delivers some brutal scenes, like the stabbing of Kick Ass but has the courage to also deliver some rather touching moments as well. The most touching moment, is the death of Big Daddy and is my favourite scene. The way it’s lit is haunting, it just looks amazing, and for me that really helps deliver this scene.

My 2^nd favourite scene is Big Daddy letting rip in the wood warehouse, with a superb piece of music from John Murphy (which I thought was 28 Days Later but is not it’s just a version of it) to accompany it, it’s brilliant.

I can’t start listing scenes which I like, but as nearly every scene has something in it that I like it’s pointless. I’ll settle for sharing my favourite 2. But even now after 4 viewings I am still seeing new things in some scenes. Chris (Red Mist) is browsing the comics while Red Mist is on the Tv news.

So from this post I guess you could say I like this film!

Well a week later I ended up watching it again!

On the BD we have a decent making of, a piece with Mark Miller, and some other things I’ve not looked at yet.

The Making of is great, you can break it down into segments, which is cool as it’s about 2 hours long. But it’s got some really good interviews in it, the music section was really good and it showed Vaughn always wanted the best he could get, nothing else would do. Vaughn shows himself to be a clever man, has a good knowledge of music along with TV and film. And he never backed down, stood firm and he delivered the movie (more or less) he wanted to do.

He backs up his interviews in the audio commentary, which while he doesn’t set the world on fire, has some very interesting facts and observations. Well worth watching.

So the full package is great, Vaughn did hint at a Directors Cut, which I’d buy in a heartbeat!! I Hope it comes off!