Aaron Johnson stars as an ordinary New York teen who takes his comic-book obsession to the max and becomes a superhero
Aaron Johnson stars as an ordinary New York teen who takes his comic-book obsession to the max and becomes a superhero.
Calling himself Kick-Ass, he buys a daft green and yellow suit and mask off the internet and starts crime fighting despite his lack of superpowers.
Inspiring copycats, he's hunted by violent lowlifes, meeting up with a pair of crazed vigilantes, 11-year-old, sword-wielding Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) and her dad, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) - and makes friends with another novice superhero, Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse).
They soon find a nemesis in Red Mist’s dad, evil mob boss Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong).
Based on a comic by Mark Millar and John S Romita Jr, this has a dazzling, constantly surprising, brilliantly edgy and unusually challenging script by Jonathan Ross' wife Jane Goldman and director Matthew Vaughn (who worked together on the much less spectacular or well achieved Stardust).
Vaughn directs like a man inspired and obsessed but, be warned, the movie crosses the line when it comes to the violence and bad language involving Moretz.
