Reviews

First off, let me premise this by saying that I loved the concept of this film. When I was younger I imagined myself dressing up and going around fighting crime and cleaning up the neighborhood. I mean let's be honest, who didn't? Up till the middle of the film it seemed that's exactly the direction this movie was going. Kick-Ass got his ass kicked when he tried to save stop people from stealing a car because the only fighting he'd ever done was in his mind, and in there you know exactly what the bad guy is going to do. But in real life you have no idea that's why people get formal training. So I applauded Matthew Vaughn on this by making Kick-Ass totally worthless.

But then something changed. The entire mood of the film shifted and all of a sudden it turned into your standard comic book movie. Suddenly, Kick-Ass knows exactly what to do in situations, and don't get me started on the end of the film. All I'll say on that is, I don't think you can learn to pilot a jet-pack like that in 2 hours, or attach mini-guns to it and not fly COMPLETELY off course when you fire TWIN mini-guns from a tiny little jet-pack.

The most disturbing part of this film however is the little girl. I think the whole reason she was in there was merely for shock value. I wouldn't have this opinion of it if at the end of the film it would have been more realistic for her. You know, like how an 11 year old should react to killing multiple people in gruesome ways; you have a nervous breakdown and end up being hospitalized for most of your life. Had they ended it that way I would have been impressed, but ending it with her being completely fine, that's what finally did it for me.

So watch this if you enjoy a cheap laugh or easy thrill, but don't look at it for any more depth than that. If you want that, the Watchmen film is much more suited for a realistic look on Superheroes, even with Dr. Manhattan.

I was hooked on this movie all the way from beginning to end. The characters were enticing, the plot was driving, and the suspense was amazing. It kept you guessing till the very end...and then it went to crap.

I'm so sick of movies having sad endings, or stupid endings, which is exactly what this movie ended with. Was she dead, alive? What? And the answer was obviously alive, Liam Neeson was obviously a serial killer, and obviously if Justin Long or Christina Ricci had been any smarter, she would have figured it out, killed Liam Neeson, and we would have had a happy ending.

It just didn't fit at the end with the characters at all. Also, if you were burying a coffin, 20 bucks says you could hear somebody screaming and yelling from inside of it! Especially if all you've thrown on it is ONE shovelful of dirt. The write just seemed to want to end it on a depressing note, which just irks me. Life's too depressing at it is. Could we please see some happy endings on occasion?

Okay, so the premise of the movie was really interesting; Imagine a world where vampires are the dominant species on the Earth and humans get hunted. A unique enough of idea with enough homage to I Am Legend that its an attention grabber.

However, you throw in enough dead space in the movie to make even the most avid movie-goer yawn, actors like Sam Neil and Willem Dafoe giving a B-Rated performance with One-Dimensional characters, and a random child killing herself at the beginning of the film, and you have one very horridly rushed horror film.

First, the dead space. There were just random shots of the city thrown in through-out it that makes you go...okay...I've seen this already, whats the big deal.

Second, the B-Rated performance. Now, I love Sam Neil and Willem Dafoe, but they both got screwed over when they got the script for this. Sam Neil's character has no depth, whatsoever, except for the random daughter they throw in. Then Willem Dafoe's character says so many two-bit one-liners that you could have made a whole movie just out of them.

And finally, the random death. Hostage with Bruce Willis, 2nd Pirates of the Caribbean, are all examples of movies that did not reach its full potential because they both had one thing in common...a child dying at the beginning. This sets a depressing over-tone for the whole movie, and an icky feeling that you can never fully discard during your whole viewing of the film. A child getting killed on screen is just...wrong. Especially in the beginning.

Though I may bash on this however, the story was a very good idea, and I want to know what happens next, but just in a comic book or a novel media because if they did a sequel to this, I would not go see it.

CONCLUSION: Wait for it at Blockbuster.