Playlist: Kick Ass

Ok this is a film that was independently financed and so you gotta give props for the team that put this together. No company seemed to want to touch the harsh subject matter for some reason...I mean 300 was violent..I guess it was the 11 year old girl who swears a lot and kills people violently...because that's it...that's the reason. This film is good...but not as good as I thought it would be.

On one level I see that it is an anti-superhero film...pretentious folks will say "the deconstruction of the super hero phenomenon"...others said that about Watchmen...I think the film Defendor...and I haven't seen it yet...but that film with Woody Harrelson probably is better suited for that tag line...this film tries to say..."what would happen if you became a super hero" and you really had no powers...at least that's the way it starts off...I wish it would have stayed there...but no one had the reigns on this film...because it was financed independently...and that reason alone is not a reason to just make whatever crap movie you want to make...not that this is crap...but we just have way to many story lines that we have all seen before thrown together...the bad guy...the dead wife..the revenge...the kid is a wuss..the girl is the killer, the evil bad guy and how he became evil...this film starts out as a salve for all the bad superhero films of late and by the end becomes a crappy super hero film...as for the violence and language..Punisher Warzone was much much better..

As for the acting...the kid who plays Kick Ass is just OK...McLovin is terrible..the bad mafia guys are terrible...the great part ..the true greatness even is not with this "Hit Girl"...although I like her storyline best and if they make a sequel she will be worth it...but the best of course is Nic Cage...he has had a re-birth of good old school Nic Cage Craziness...He does an Adam West impersonation here...not over the top..but if you know Adam West as Batman...you will recognize it...remember in Bad Lieutenant he does a Jimmy Stewart impersonation out of no where?...here it works just as well...this guy plays memorable characters that you say.."What the Fuck was that?"...and that's the point..he is in the prime of acting again...maybe not Leaving Las Vegas...but at least Wild at Heart...his story line is the one most like a super hero story line...and the film uses that to say "look this is a typical story line and we will show you that we are making fun of those films by showing ultra violence, and what a real Batman would do"...but it winds up being bad ass and cool and instead of winking at that cliche...the film actually does a great job to promote that type of film to us, and by the way didn't The Dark Knight show us that a guy wearing hockey pads and a shot gun will get his ass handed to him by the real Batman?...we want to see Nic Cage kicking ass..and not this gay ass "Kick Ass"...

Overall I enjoyed it...Big Daddy was the best...real superheroes would simply have guns...that's why we have Police...in real life Batman would be dead in like 4 days...but Big Daddy he will not be in a sequel for "spoiler" reasons...the director is now getting ready to make X-Men First Class...great..he made an independent anti-superhero film...just to make a mainstream piece of steaming crap that we all see coming...sure the Twilight Tweens will watch that garbage...but not me...there are too many superhero films these days..and the critics are right..its overload..I have a feeling that Iron Man 3, Thor, and Green Lantern will all be terrible..I really do...I have hope for Captain America...but that will probably be just OK..The Avengers will be watered down..and all these independent graphic novel films will eventually dry up...we will be left with the hopes that Batman 3 is good enough to push for the Nolan inspired Superman...Nolan is our Only Hope.