Super (Gunn, 2010)
After seeing it land at an impressive #2 on Skepsis' list, a MoFo whose tastes and opinions have gained my respects, I figured it was time to check this movie out, and this is what I have to say about it.
Let me start this review by saying this is unlike any film I have seen......in my life. Of course, you can say it is a "comic book/superhero" offspring, in the same class as Kick-Ass, but this is something different. This movie was a visual explosion.
Of course, I got the same feelings as I always do in these kinds of films.....simply put, you root for the good guy. But, let's delve deeper.....just how good was Frank, and how much of it was delusion and in a sense panic towards being alone and an outcast again as he was in school and so forth, an idiot, and a man who doesn't understand how, in his words, someone this moronic and stupid can exist? You feel for his personal relationship with his wife, but, more importantly, you feel for him and his past, and what has lead this man to the actions he has came to.
I was literally blown away by Page and Wilson, who had their awkward moments together, but you could tell they were meant to be a team from the jump. It truly was the teacher and the student.
I cannot believe how amazed I was with this film. Nothing I have seen recently has compared. I just had to see what the big deal was to make someone choose this movie over American Beauty and other great films, but now I know. This truly is a diamond in the rough, and I am forever grateful to Skepsis for leading me on to what will definitely be in my top 100 list revised in about a year, that I promise you.
I feel like I have learned something from this movie, it wasn't just your average shoot 'em up Hit Girl in the corridor with a katana and killing 30 people with no problem bloodfest, THIS MOVIE MADE ME FEEL. I wanted redemption, I wanted clean streets, and I WANTED CRIME TO SHUT UP!
"All it takes to be a superhero is the choice to fight evil."
This is what the genre has been missing. This is what is between the panels.
Great action, great performances, great soundtrack, superb experience.