Sehwag, Tendulkar and Akhtar

Sehwag narrating a fun incident on the field involving Sachin Tendulkar and Shoaib Akhtar -

Movie: Kick-Ass (2010)

Having no idea about the movie except that it was an action comedy based on a comic book series and based on Netflix’s guesstimate that I would most likely rate it four stars, I watched Kick-Ass last weekend with low expectations and boy was I pleasantly surprised!

It starts off slowly with Dave, a high school nobody, bothered that ‘thousands of people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spiderman’, deciding to don a costume and fight crime as ‘Kick-Ass’. A couple of mishaps and millions of hits on YouTube later, he gets caught up in the revenge plot of superhero ‘Big Daddy’ and  his daughter ‘Hit-Girl’ against supervillain Frank and his wannabe villain son Chris aka ‘Red Mist’. From then on, the movie coasts forward, alternating between super funny and ultra violent, and ends literally with a bang. The action sequences are brutal, stylish and over the top, borrowing heavily from Tarantino, especially ‘Kill Bill’.

The highlight (and apparently a point of controversy) of the movie is ‘Hit-Girl’ - the foul-mouthed, brainwashed, well trained 11yr old assassin. She takes a bullet at point blank range and goes for ice cream afterwards; she orders weapons while drinking hot chocolate with marshmallows; she is thrilled to get a switch blade as a gift; she handles weapons like toys. Mouthing crude expletives that would put rappers to shame and brutally massacring villains, she is dynamite on screen.

A must watch, if you don’t mind a 11yr old mouthing expletives and kicking some serious ass.