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Hit Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) clobbers a villain in the horrifically violent. graphic novel-inspired action thriller. |
The title doesn’t lie.
Here comes one Red Bull of an action film that doesn’t play nice.
It combines the fantastic underpinnings of a superhero costume adventure with the excessively gory violence of a cheap martial arts exploitation film.
“Kick-Ass” may upset some viewers, especially during the scenes when an 11-year-old female superhero named Hit Girl energetically wipes out a room full of thugs with sharp and scary blades, resulting in geysers of blood and lots of screaming.
If that doesn’t do it, the scenes where the story’s chief villain holds little Hit Girl down and pounds her with his fists certainly will.
Forget your granddad’s cartoony superhero movies.
Matthew Vaughn’s sensationalized story stays true to the darker heart of its source – the comic book series by Mark Millar and John S. Romita Jr. – and proves to be unforgiving of a society that stands idly by while witnessing crime and violence. (Read more…)