Super (2010)

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	Year of first release: 2010
	Director: James Gunn (Tromeo and Juliet, Slither)
	Actors: Rainn Wilson (Transformers 2), Ellen Page (Inception, X-men 3), Liv Tyler (Armageddon), Kevin Bacon (Friday 13th, Hollow Man, Stir of Echoes), Michael Rooker (Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Black Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 11.09.2011, cinema St Ex, Strasbourg, SFFF2011
Synopsis: A regular man (Wilson) becomes a vigilante after his wife (Tyler) leaves him.
Review: The comparison with Kick-Ass cannot be avoided. The movies are different, but follow a similar storyline. In fact I think they could be 2 visions from 2 different directors around the free theme: “regular people becoming Super heroes in the real world”.The main difference is the motivation of the character: while Kick-Ass is a comics fan and finds it a good idea to become a super hero (partly to get chicks), the Crimson Bolt from Super has a more noble motivation: getting back his wife who left for another man (Kevin Bacon, good to see him back since Hollow Man and Death Sentence), and in the mean time fight crime as Jesus told him to (!) in some grotesque visions, with the help of a violent and energetic side-kick.The central character is touching in his weaknesses, and his Super alter ego reminds me of Batman in the way that he could be considered as lunatic and violent as the criminals he fights. The movie is cut in long shots that help you identify with the hero. In general it is a good movie that never diverges from its morale “crime is bad”, along with some crude and dark humor.
Rating: 7 /10