The first big film of the year for me, one I've been waiting to see, since the trailer broke last year and the buzz hit the world wide web! So it had to been seen on the preview weekend!
I have a lot of time for the director Matthew Vaughn, liking both Layer Cake and Stardust his previous two directional films quite a lot. Also Jane Goldman needs some credit here as well, and I'm not one to heap praise on the writers, but her screenplays for Stardust and Kick Ass have been superb.
The cast is brilliant, and this even goes for Cage, who I've not seen make a good film for...... well a long time, but here he is great. Now the talk is of Chloe Moretaz aka Hit Girl, 11 years old and turning the air blue with her language and the floor red with the blood from her kills! She is brilliant, but I never missed her when she wasn't on screen, because I liked the other characters just as much. Cage as Big Daddy (Hit Girls Dad), Mark Strong as the mob boss (no surprise here) are great, and Kick Ass himself Aaron Johnson who is brilliant. The supporting cast are all really really good as well.
The script is brilliant, the soundtrack is outstanding, with Mika taking the film's main song, which I do really like. The direction and cinematography are fantastic, New York looks amazing but the action sequences are just superb. The Cage set piece is brilliant set to In The House, In a Heartbeat which sadly isn't on the OST. The first time we really meet Hit girl is brilliant, they all build to the thrilling end and one that doesn't disappoint.
The last point I have to make, the film is super-hero geek heaven, the homage it pays to it's genre is breath taking and none of it feels like a steal or misused. It's not taking the piss, it's not trying to cash in it's just saying maybe a superhero exits in all of us!
I'm sure I've missed loads which is why I'm going back to see it tonight!
Sets the standard for my summer (10/10) simply Outstanding!
Well this film did exactly waht is said on the tin - Kick Ass!! I read part of the comic and realised how true they had stayed to the original vision (as much as graphically possible). Good script (won't win any awards though), good cast and a great soundtrack. It make's no bones about they type of movie it is (superbad with super heroes and quite a lot of blood letting). All credit to Matthew Vaughn for taking this on. 10/10
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