Kick-Ass (2010)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 243
Fresh: 186 | Rotten: 57
Not for the faint of heart, Kick-Ass takes the comic adaptation genre to new levels of visual style, bloody violence, and gleeful profanity.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 44
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 14
Not for the faint of heart, Kick-Ass takes the comic adaptation genre to new levels of visual style, bloody violence, and gleeful profanity.
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Movie Info
Adapted from Mark Millar's hyper-violent comic book of the same name, director Matthew Vaughn's (Layer Cake) vigilante superhero film tells the tale of an average New York teenager who decides to don a costume and fight crime. Comic book geek Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) may not have good coordination or special powers, but that doesn't mean he isn't a fully capable crime fighter. After purchasing a flashy wet suit on the Internet, Dave starts busting up baddies with nothing but brute force. He
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Mark Strong
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Chloe Grace Moretz
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Omari Hardwick
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Xander Berkeley
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Michael Rispoli
Big Joe -
Clark Duke
Marty -
Lyndsy Fonseca
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Evan Peters
Todd -
Dexter Fletcher
Cody -
Corey Johnson
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Jason Flemyng
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Kenneth Simmons
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Randall Batinkoff
Tre Fernandez -
Garrett M. Brown
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Elizabeth McGovern
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Deborah Twiss
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Sophie Wu
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Anthony Desio
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Adrian Martinez
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Joe Bacino
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Stu "Large" Riley
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Walle Jobara
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Carlos Besse Peres
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Tamer Hassan
Matthew -
Yancy Butler
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Tim Plester
Danil -
Hubert Boorder
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Craig Ferguson
Himself -
Omar Soriano
Leroy -
Kofi Natei
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Johnny Hopkins
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Ohene Cornelius
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Russell Bentley
Medic -
Christopher McGuire
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Max White
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Dean Copkov
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Jacob Cartwright
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Maurice DuBois
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Harley Quinn Smith
Big Mean Boy
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Most of the lessons in Kick-Ass are juvenile, but Lordy are they stylishly told.
Top CriticI found it mighty painful sitting through all the bone crushing and blood-letting.
I know it's all supposed to be tongue in cheek and lots of fun, but frankly this turned my stomach.
When filmmakers nudge a child into viewing savagery as slapstick, are we not allowing them to do what we condemn in the pornographer -- that is, to coarsen and inflame?
Kick-Ass is some kind of twisted fun.
Everything you've likely heard about Kick-Ass is true, providing you've heard it's profane, outlandish, ultra-violent, shocking, funny and wildly entertaining.
A tremendously fresh experience.
It could be argued that you can't have your cape and eat it, but for the most part Kick-Ass is witty, knowing and hugely fun.
With its electrifying action sequences, a killer storyline and a maverick comic sensibility, the brilliance of Kick Ass will hit those who want to see it like a thunderbolt.
If you're not too put-off by lots of violence and profanity, and enjoy a good action-filled popcorn flick, then chances are you're going to love "Kick-Ass."
If you want to get serious, you could say that Kick-Ass is the movie that could finally drag comic-books into the credible mainstream. But being serious is to miss the point of Kick-Ass completely.
Where do I stand on Kick-Ass? On the fence, goggling with a mix of appalled fascination and guilty pleasure at the film's dark comedy and over-the-top violence.
Kick-Ass gains significant momentum in its second half, once it abandons the arch origin-story material and starts staking a claim as a straight-up action flick.
Fast, funny, and a hell of a lot of fun, Vaughn's film does, indeed, live up to the brash punch of its title.
... It feels fresh, with an edge about it that allows you to think anything can happen to any character at any time.
Defiantly irreverent and gleefully violent.
The movie just decided that thoughtlessness and splatter was its own reward. I'm okay with that.
Never has a title been so true, so funny, and so simple as that of Kick-Ass.
Kick-Ass is so refreshingly iconoclastic, it's a wonder it was made at all.
Kick-Ass is such an exciting, refreshing development in comic book filmmaking that I want to shout it from the rooftops
Kick Ass is about as exciting as movies get. Not just because it is a (mostly) anarchic splatter-fest that celebrates (nay, encourages) acts of ridiculous violence, but also the fact that it was made completely outside of the studio system.
A bait-and-switch movie that lucks out because its switch is so much more appealing than its bait.
Your appreciation will depend in how much you can appreciate it's utter wrongness as a twisted virtue.
America could probably use a good laugh just about now, what with all the problems plaguing this society. But the exploitation of children even if they are actors and the special effects are occasionally awesome, is way beyond just not cool.
A genre dress-up play date from hell.
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Movies Like Kick-Ass
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- Damon Macready/Big Daddy: Now you know how it feels. You won't be scared when some junkie asshole pulls a glock.
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- Damon Macready/Big Daddy: Take cover child.
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- Dave Lizewski/Kick-Ass: [narriting] If you think I would have to servive cause I'm talking to you now... Stop being such a smart ass.
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- Chris D'Amico/Red Mist: A world full of superheroes, eh?
- Chris D'Amico/Red Mist: As a great man once said... wait 'til they get a load of me.
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- Mindy Macready/Hit Girl: Show's over, motherfuckers.
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- Damon Macready/Big Daddy: Now Switch to kryptonite!
- Damon Macready/Big Daddy: Now go to Robin's revenge!
Discussion Forum
| Topic | Last Post | Replies |
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| Kick Ass : One of the best movies ever made? I think Yes!! You? | 5 days ago | 31 |
| I haven't seen this yet, but is it worse (in violence) than Kill Bill? | 55 days ago | 4 |
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