Every Superhero Movie This Decade Ranked - Worst To Best

16. Kick-Ass (2010)

Kick Ass Nicolas Cage
Universal

Years before Deadpool hit with audiences, there was Kick-Ass, which at the time of its release was a fiercely fresh, boundary-pushing superhero movie that proudly rejected superhero tropes and forged its own R-rated path.

Matthew Vaughn serves up some of his best direction to date in the movie's brutal, visually kinetic action sequences - especially Big Daddy's (Nicolas Cage) warehouse assault - the one-liners are hysterical, and what could be better than Nicolas Cage playing a totally-not-Batman-ripoff (complete with an Adam West impersonation no less)?

That's not to ignore the easy highlight: a 12-year-old Chloë Grace Moretz playing the foul-mouthed murderer Hit-Girl. It's an hysterically entertaining, endearingly weird movie that still holds up well almost a decade later.

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