2010 · action · comedy · superhero
Kick-Ass
Directed by Matthew Vaughn1h 58m2010
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.
Our read: Kick-Ass (2010) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · comedy · superhero entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, extreme action / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
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