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I saw Kickass (a review... sorta)
15 years ago
踊れ愚か者ども!
The only way I can really describe this move is that it's a really REALLY GOOD bad movie. No I'm not saying that it's so good that it's bad. I'm saying that it's different. After years of adjust to the tried and true form of cinema something that pushes the boundaries on the rule is hard for me to swallow. It's a wrong that I myself need to fix so with that basically here's the story.
BUT BEFORE I FORGET POSSIBLE SPOILERS!
Kickass is about a young average teenager, Dave Lizewski who often wondered why nobody in the real world has ever tried to be a superhero. With that in mind he decided to one day take up the mantel and try his hand in superheroics... in a not so stylish fashion. He gets himself stabbed and horrible beaten the crap out of during his first venture before finally setting on something that works. After an incident where he gets caught up in a small gang fight where he defends one guy against 2 others. His fight gets recorded and ends up on the internet where shortly after becomes an internet phenomenon catching mass media hype and attention. With his newfound popularity he catches the attention of a large mafia drug ring during a confrontation where he gets his ass saved by Big Daddy, an ex-cop who was framed by the drug ring and his young 11 year old daughter Hit-Girl.
Here's the reasons why it's a really good movie:
The action sequences are by far the most creative both in concept and in technician. It's violence ranges from Dark Knightesque gritty realism to over the top Kill Bill bloodspilling surrealism. And when I mean is good, it's fucking good. The special effects make this movie feel immersive and almost realistic
The cinematography is at its best with some really good sequences, one in particular, a gun fight in pitch-black darkness.
Some of the most awkward heartwarming messed up relationships which felt really genuine. As well as a rather interesting side of vigilantism.
The characters are all top notch. Nicholas Cage's weird acting style is perfect for the psychologically balanced/unbalanced Big Daddy. Hit-Girl the show stealing side-main, who stole the entire movie since the trailers is everything that you expect her to be and more. The titular character Kick-Ass is interesting in that he plays the everyman really REALLY well. There is absolutely nothing special about Kick-Ass as a character, other than the fact that he is willing to put himself on the line.
Here's the reasons why it's a bad movie:
IF one word can describe this movie, its clusterfuck. The entire story is followed and narrated by Kick-Ass, but the problem lies in about halfway into the movie where he himself is no longer the main character, even though the movie follows in his perspective. He is basically a spectator of his own movie.
The continuity of the movie in terms of the type of violence gets pulled around in all sides where it feels like a different movie. In the start of the movie it's filmed like a spiderman movie, but is immediately brought down to earth by simulating what high school actually feels like. When kick ass gets his ass handed to him by some punks it looks like he's actually getting hurt for real.
Cut to about 1/2 hour later. We see hit girl slaughtering gangmembers like a quinton terinto film.
A lot of the scenes are forgettible and the moments after hitgirl feel rather dragged on and completely uninteresting. As well as the fact that a lot of the action sequences were predictable with the exception of the combat acrobatics of hit girl. And if it feels like im refering to her a lot, it's because she really is the best character in this movie
In any case I really did like this movie.
BUT BEFORE I FORGET POSSIBLE SPOILERS!
Kickass is about a young average teenager, Dave Lizewski who often wondered why nobody in the real world has ever tried to be a superhero. With that in mind he decided to one day take up the mantel and try his hand in superheroics... in a not so stylish fashion. He gets himself stabbed and horrible beaten the crap out of during his first venture before finally setting on something that works. After an incident where he gets caught up in a small gang fight where he defends one guy against 2 others. His fight gets recorded and ends up on the internet where shortly after becomes an internet phenomenon catching mass media hype and attention. With his newfound popularity he catches the attention of a large mafia drug ring during a confrontation where he gets his ass saved by Big Daddy, an ex-cop who was framed by the drug ring and his young 11 year old daughter Hit-Girl.
Here's the reasons why it's a really good movie:
The action sequences are by far the most creative both in concept and in technician. It's violence ranges from Dark Knightesque gritty realism to over the top Kill Bill bloodspilling surrealism. And when I mean is good, it's fucking good. The special effects make this movie feel immersive and almost realistic
The cinematography is at its best with some really good sequences, one in particular, a gun fight in pitch-black darkness.
Some of the most awkward heartwarming messed up relationships which felt really genuine. As well as a rather interesting side of vigilantism.
The characters are all top notch. Nicholas Cage's weird acting style is perfect for the psychologically balanced/unbalanced Big Daddy. Hit-Girl the show stealing side-main, who stole the entire movie since the trailers is everything that you expect her to be and more. The titular character Kick-Ass is interesting in that he plays the everyman really REALLY well. There is absolutely nothing special about Kick-Ass as a character, other than the fact that he is willing to put himself on the line.
Here's the reasons why it's a bad movie:
IF one word can describe this movie, its clusterfuck. The entire story is followed and narrated by Kick-Ass, but the problem lies in about halfway into the movie where he himself is no longer the main character, even though the movie follows in his perspective. He is basically a spectator of his own movie.
The continuity of the movie in terms of the type of violence gets pulled around in all sides where it feels like a different movie. In the start of the movie it's filmed like a spiderman movie, but is immediately brought down to earth by simulating what high school actually feels like. When kick ass gets his ass handed to him by some punks it looks like he's actually getting hurt for real.
Cut to about 1/2 hour later. We see hit girl slaughtering gangmembers like a quinton terinto film.
A lot of the scenes are forgettible and the moments after hitgirl feel rather dragged on and completely uninteresting. As well as the fact that a lot of the action sequences were predictable with the exception of the combat acrobatics of hit girl. And if it feels like im refering to her a lot, it's because she really is the best character in this movie
In any case I really did like this movie.
