
2010 film directed by Matthew Vaughn
"Kick-Ass" is a 2010 superhero film directed by Matthew Vaughn that follows an ordinary teenager who decides to become a vigilante crime-fighter despite having no superpowers. The film became notable for its subversive take on superhero stories, combining graphic violence and crude humor with the coming-of-age narrative of its protagonist.
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Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
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Kick-Ass is a 2010 superhero black comedy film directed by Matthew Vaughn from a screenplay by Jane Goldman and Vaughn. It is based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., and is the first film in the Kick-Ass franchise.
It tells the story of an ordinary teenager, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), who sets out to become a real-life superhero, calling himself "Kick-Ass". Dave gets caught up in a bigger fight when he meets Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage), a former cop who, in his quest to bring down the crime boss Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong) and his son Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), has trained his eleven-year-old daughter (Chloë Grace Moretz) to be the ruthless vigilante Hit-Girl.
Rotten Tomatoes
78%
Metacritic
66/100
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