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I loved Kick-Ass, but there are several places in the movie (particularly those places where the film differed from the comic book) where it does cheat its own premise.

Two things that spring to mind:

Spoiler:

- If the idea of the movie is that these are real people, the whole "flying jetpack" with machine guns - while satisfying - isn't really fitting with the movies realism.

- In the comic, when they kill Big Daddy (they just shoot him in the head), it's revealed that the whole police back-story is made up, and he's just a wannabe geek. Much more powerful, in my opinion, because it turned the 'supercop' cliche on its head, instead of playing out the established trope.

I still loved the movie, though.