Those who have the misfortune to know me well, or at least have had a conversation with me at some point in the past will know that i'm not often forthcoming with praise about films and the like, but I have to say that having sat and watched Kick-Ass this week I find myself very much so back in love with Hollywood offerings.
Kick-Ass is a film that goes back to the 'KISS' theory of film making - (K)eep (I)t (S)imple, (S)tupid. Where film makers forego the notion of layering plotline after plotline of pointless rubbish to keep the ending a suprise and filling our screens with so many Effects, famous faces and the latest crappy pop song overtures by today's useless popular musicians.
Kick-Ass was a fun "super"-hero flick, no delusions of grandeur mired the marketing, it was a simple story, ticking every monomythical structure box that could be thrown at it. It was a revelation to feel a real sense of tension when things weren't going well and elation when events took a turn for the better. I haven't had a genuine experience like that since that 3rd season episode of BSG when the Galactica is free-falling in New Caprica's atmosphere whilst launching Viper's and the sense that they may actually get destroyed in orbit later on.
I digress, Kick-Ass really was an enjoyable experience, I have it on good authority that even Nicholas Cage was good in it, apparently i'm the only person on earth that enjoys his movies as a rule - My better half isn't so forgiving and thus her opinion of his performance is probably more accurate than mine, but I REALLY liked him in this.
The lead, he was okay, his cronies - they were okay too.
The real gem is - Chloe Moretz as Mindy Macready AKA: Hit Girl - It's not necessarily the Catch yoU Next Tuesday utterance that made me chuckle but the fact that no-one survives her and her introduction of hacking someone's leg off is particularly endearing - Of Hit Girl one can say, She is simply a vicious little cherub whose easy on the ears dialogue is spectacular at points and i'm sure Nicholas Cage's life was made infinitely easier during filming having an incredible performer to work with.
She was a credit to the film, unfortunately her performance will be forever mired with the inevitable bad language backlash that the media dish out whenever a youngster utters anything that respreents them as being anything other than sweet innocent children, the aforementioned Catch yoU Next Tuesday line is more representative of how children actually speak and have spoken like since this author was young. I'm glad the film makers kept it in and i'm glad it was her line.
Kick-Ass won't win any awards for originality, but what it does do is follow the rules of an entertaining and thoroughly endearing tale of good vs Evil, Right and Wrong and victory over adversity.
I love it, and highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't.
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