Roger Ebert stronca Kick-Ass

Roger Ebert, uno dei più famosi critici americani, ha stroncato Kick-Ass senza appello.

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Il film racconta la storia di Dave Lizewski: frequenta le superiori e ha una passione per i fumetti di supereroi. Vuole diventare un supereroe lui stesso, acquista una tuta su ebay e si allena, pero poi quando si presenta l’occasione viene pestato pesantemente e finisce in ospedale. La sua seconda esperienza lo rendera’ famoso con il nome di kick-ass. I problemi si presentano quando durante una sua missione due veri supereroi intervengono facendo una strage: Big dad e Hit girl.

Scrive Ebert sul Chicago Sun-Times:

Shall I have feelings, or should I pretend to be cool? Will I seem hopelessly square if I find “Kick-Ass” morally reprehensible and will I appear to have missed the point? Let’s say you’re a big fan of the original comic book, and you think the movie does it justice. You know what? You inhabit a world I am so very not interested in.

It shows deadly carnage dished out by an 11-year-old girl, after which an adult man brutally hammers her to within an inch of her life. Blood everywhere. Now tell me all about the context.

…I know, I know. This is a satire. But a satire of what?

At the end, when the villain deliciously anticipates blowing a bullet hole in the child’s head, he is prevented only because her friend, in the nick of time, shoots him with bazooka shell at 10-foot range and blows him through a skyscraper window and across several city blocks of sky in a projectile of blood, flame and smoke. As I often read on the Internet: Hahahahaha.

…This movie regards human beings like video-game targets. Kill one, and you score. They’re dead, you win. When kids in the age range of this movie’s home video audience are shooting one another every day in America, that kind of stops being funny.