4. Kick-Ass, Make It About Hit Girl and Big Daddy
Kick-Ass was supposed to be a "realistic" take on the super-hero genre. If someone were to dress-up and take on crime what would actually happen? Well, billed as a dark comedy the end result is entirely too much of former with almost none of the latter. Dave Lizewski, Aaron Johnson, becomes Kick-ass a Nun-chuck wielding wanna-be vigilante. The focus is his journey of self-discovery and the pitfalls there of. The problem being is that Dave is a typical movie high-school nerd, something we have seen thousands upon thousands of times before. Aaron Johnson doesn't bring anything new to the role either, playing Kick-ass as the lovable wimp, as un-engaging as possible. What does stand out is the father-daughter vigilante duo of Big Daddy and Hit Girl. From birth Nick Cage's Damon Macready has trained his daughter Mindy to be a unstoppable killing machine, bent on dispensing hard-justice. The two especially Chloe Grace-Moretz's Hit-Girl completely steal the show. The whole film should've concentrated on their dynamic, not some High-school nerd completely out of his league.