The interminable torrent of superhero comic adaptations was bound to lead to a sub-genre that milked the fans for laughs, especially with real-world vigilantism still on the rise.
Kick-Ass pulls off the action and comedy with more panache than
Defendor did, but at the cost of the pathos. A middle-aged mentally subnormal man putting on a costume to fight crime and mostly just have the shit beaten out of him by street punks works as something pitiable, whereas you don't expect much else from a nerdy teenager.
Still, it's perky and wears its ludicrosity well, a rather essential touch when a 10-year-old girl vigilante repeatedly slices and kicks her way through droves of beefy gangsters. Where it loses focus, however, is in the impact of the extreme violence: it's either cartoonised or realistic, entirely depending on who's at the receiving end, and the flapping from one to the other diminishes both its comic and dramatic effects.
6/10
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