Kickass: movie review

Okay so first off there will be spoilers, if this blog ever has any other readers than this message will mean something.

First things first the movie easily lives up to it's name. I called it the most awesome thing I have ever seen, and if the movie as a whole doesn't qualify the fight scene at the end with hitgirl taking on about seven thugs with guns, even those of her opponents, and knifes, to the tune of Bad Reputation, even when she reloads it's awesome, though too difficult for me explain here.

Now the plot, well you know most of it so I'll skip most of it but basically a nerdy guy begins wondering why nobodies ever been a superhero, and gets so obsessed with it he eventually becomes one. In one of his first fights he is saved by Hit Girl and Big Daddy who upstage him easily. The three team up to take on a crime boss Frank. Oh and there is much awesome mostly done by an eleven year old girl.

The characters, well first there is Kickass who is just a regular teenage nerd, well he has metal plating on most of his bones and most of his nerve endins are shot to hell but apart from that completely normal. Even at the end when he saves hitgirl twice, first with a jetpack with mounted miniguns then with a bazooka, he's still just a regular teen in terms of intelligence and strength.

I'll tell you who's not normal for their age though, Hit Girl, that's not a complaint though, it's perfectly normal as well given her backstory. She has been trained since she was five to be a martial arts expert and a pro with a gun, which is very handy when your a vigilante. She is also the best character in the movie, and most badass. My favourite scene involves her taking out seven or so thugs while running and jumping through a hallway using guns, and not limited to her own, and knifes to take them all out, the fact that it's all done to Bad Reputation just adds to the awesome.

Big Daddy is another awesome character, unfortunately he only gets one real fight but in that scene, and hell throughout the movie he is incredibly badass. He is basically Batman with guns, that should tell you what you need to know about his awesomeness levels. His story as to how he became a superhero is actually pretty sad as well which makes you feel for the guy, even when he's brutally murdering people.

All the other characters are good but none, nope not even Red Mist, stood out enough for them to warrant there own paragraph.

Now I do have one thing I don't love about this movie, the fact that it's Kickass who takes out Frank, not the girl who'd been trainging to do exactly that for six years and was out for revenge for not just her mother but her father. It seemed like the writers realised that Hit Girl was being too awesome and they needed Kickass to do something, they seemed to have forgotten about him coming in with the jetpack with mounted miniguns and knocing out Red Mist. This isn't a major complaint though, and the scene ended up being more awesome than it would have been if Hit Girl had killed him but it just annoyed me.