re: I really enjoyed both Kick arse movies

The first was a surprise. Moretz and Cage picked the movie up and ran across the finish line with it.

The second was... well... it was there. Chloe Moretz was still a very good young actress but the shock value of her character was done. The split narrative between her story and the Aaron Taylor-Johnson story was even more uneven this time around.

It had some good moments but blaming its failure on box office piracy is a cop out. It just didn't have the oomph the first movie had. It wasn't, however, a bad movie. But I think the studio had been banking on it being a bigger movie then it turned out to be.