Who hasn’t secret wanted to be a super hero fighting crime and getting the girl? So why hasn’t someone tried it in real life? How hard can it be? Bruce Wayne didn’t have any super powers and he’s Batman. That’s exactly what Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) comes to the conclusion and sets out to make his mark in the world. One problem, he doesn’t have the bank account that Bruce Wayne had and he’s just a geeky high school student from New York. After making a cool costume and a lot of not so successful training sessions, he finds his moment to shine when he sees a couple of hoodlums breaking into a car. However this first attempt nearly costs him his life. He is beaten, stabbed and ultimately hit by a random car. A normal person would have walked away from the fantasy but not Dave Lizewski. The results of his injuries caused such major nerve ending damage that it give him an almost super human ability to endure pain. Back in action, he is videotaped trying t save a guy’s life and the video is put on YouTube. The online video becomes an instant sensation and “Kick-Ass” is born.
That is not to say that Kick-Ass is the only civilian doing good deeds in the world. Not too far away, a father and daughter team is quickly cleaning up the town by any means necessary. Somewhere between heroes and vigilantes, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and Hit-Girl (Chloë Moretz) are taking no prisoners as they track down the drug dealers one by one delivering their own king of justice. However this isn’t sitting too well with underworld leader Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong), who becomes convinced its Kick-Ass who is been ruining his business and makes it’s his duty to remedy the problem. With a little help from his son Chris (Superbad’s Christopher Mintz-Plasse), he may very well succeed.
So brings us up to speed on our intersecting tale of good and evil, in this quite entertaining take on the modern day super hero film. Director Matthew Vaughn, who got his start producing Guy Ritchie’s early two films - Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, proves he equal knows how to play with a genre yet make it his own in this highly intoxicating tale.
Extras
In case a blu-ray copy isn’t enough, this three-disc package has everything you need from a standard def copy to even a digital copy to take with you. Even with the Blu-ray, you have several options to view the film. You can watch the film with commentary by director Matthew Vaughn, that gives us details on every aspect of making the film. It’s a pretty descent audio track and keeps you entertained. If that isn’t enough, you can choose the Ass-Kicking BonusView option. This is a enhanced video feature, that at certain times of the film, will take us behind the scenes and show us how they created the Hollywood magic.
There’s a four-part featurette entitled "A New Kind of Superhero: The Making of Kick-Ass." This is a well thought out and made feature on the process of the film from drawing board to screen. "It´s on! The Comic Book Origin of Kick-Ass," is a featurette focusing on the original comic book series with interviews by artists Mark Miller and John Romita, Jr. Rounding out the extras is a art gallery.
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