Vaughn shows how an action sequence should be directed, with Hit-Girl and her wide range of weapons making excellent viewing. An excellent film in vain of Frank Miller films like Sin City and 300. Vaughn was able to make a live action comic, with stylist vision trick, compared to Ang Lee who tried and failed with Hulk. It is fast-paced, action-packed, violence and very funny throughout. With Kick-Ass he is able to make a stylist, colourful comic-book conversion. He has proved to be a skilled director, having done the great gangster film Layer Cake and the fun fantasy romp Stardust. He was offered the chance to do X-Men: The Last Stand but left because of the rushed production and weak script, and missed out on directing Thor when his script turned out would have cost too much. The director Matthew Vaughn had been touted to direct comic book conversions before. He also finally get's Katie's attentions, but for all the wrong reasons. As well as these superhero actives Dave has to hide his identity, whilst using his fame in the internet age to help people out through Myspace.
As Kick-Ass Dave is brought into their violence world. Big Daddy sets out to bring down the crime lord Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong), taking down his organisation from the bottom up. But Dave as Kick-Ass gets in over his head when he meets two real heroes, Big Daddy (Nicholas Cage), and his young girl Hit-Girl (Chloe Moretz), a brilliant martial artist and skilled assassin.
But this gives him a high pain threshold and after being videotaped fighting three men at once Dave becomes a internet sensation and his alter-ego, Kick-Ass is born. After his first attempt at vigilante justice Dave ends up having a big accident and his nerve endings are damage. Dave however fantasises about what it would be like to be a superhero and he makes an effort to make it happen. He is ignored by girls, including Katie (Lyndsy Fonseca), the girl he fancies. Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) is a typical New York teenager, who is a comic-book fan, and not in any particular group in High School. His first film adaptation was the weak, dumbed down version of the Matrix, Wanted: but luckily Kick-Ass is a lot better. Mark Millar whom started out in the British Comic Book industry, writing for 2000AD and Sonic the Comic has become one of the biggest comic book writers around, writing for Marvel and DC with major characters like Spider-man, X-Men, Wolverine and Superman, before being able to create his own comics.