I don’t might seeing young children die in movies, any more than I do seeing adults die as a human being is a human being and we are equal so age shouldn’t be a factor but when I see a young child use bad language and murder people, then I have problems. “Kick-Ass” is a movie with violence that is too dark to be funny and it lacks the dignity to justify it.

In “Kick-Ass”, a comic book nerd named Dave (Aaron Taylor-Johnson “The Illusionist”) decides to become a real superhero in the form of Kick-Ass. He soon teams up with fellow superheroes Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage “Face/Off”, “Con Air”) and Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz “Hugo”) in order to take on a crime boss.

The idea of a real superhero is a novel concept but “Kick-Ass” doesn’t do it in a clever way but it sure as hell does it in a brutal way. I guess the Big Daddy character is actually quite funny and Nicolas Cage plays it very well but his sidekick Hit Girl is horrible. She is a girl round the age of 10 and she’s doing the most mature stuff, innocence has been lost; this is not the kid in “Home Alone”.

“Kick-Ass” has a few moments where it works and the initial concept is good but as it goes on, it delves into the disturbing and depressing realms of violence. How is it funny where the hero is tied up and being punched repeatedly with knuckle-dusters and receives blows from baseball bats? Plenty of other films get violence to work because you care either because you feel emotionally involved or you think it’s hilarious. If this was “Monty Python” or a cartoon, they’d get the tone right but a live-action film like this is unsettling.