Chloë Grace Moretz

Kick-Ass (2010)

“Our once and, hopefully, future Hit Girl. Watching a pint-size eleven-year-old murderize a whole roomful of knife- and gun-wielding thugs is quite something, but the gleeful, little-girl smiles she shoots at Aaron Johnson’s Kick-Ass elevate the character from gimmick to iconic. She is so much more than just a Powerpuff Girl brought to life – and that’s why you can expect Comic Con ‘10 to be overrun with thousands of purple-haired, black-masked tributes. She will deliver us from Bella Swan.”
“And Moretz is no precocious Dakota Fanning-esque child star: she’s got the natural charm and self-posession of a young Jodie Foster.”
- Mr. Beaks, Ain’t It Cool News

“The engine behind the mayhem is Chloe Moretz, who basically steals the show as a miniature killing machine. As previously mentioned, Kick-Ass is violent, and the film always seem to place Hit Girl in the middle of the hardest violence. She is shown gunning people down, shooting them in the face, cutting off their legs with swords, and stabbing them with knives. Casting such a young actress in this role may seem questionable, but this character is part of the overall risk taking that gives Kick-Ass its edge.”
- Rodney Perkins, Twitch Film

“Chloe Moretz has to be the star of the show. She plays Hit Girl perfectly with the ability to get every one liner and she pulls of the action every time. I’m sure that there will be a flood of Hit Girls on the Cosplay scene very soon!”
- Lord Shaper, The Furnace

“Chloe Moretz is truly impressive at Hit Girl, but it’s the little grace notes that impress me more than the acrobatics and the bloodshed.”
- Drew McWeeny, HitFix

“But all of their performances seem supporting to that of Chloe Moretz. Fresh of her role as the sweet, straight-talking little sister in 500 Days of Summer, Moretz lights up the screen as Hit Girl. She’s crass, aggressive and whip-smart. It’s a brave choice for any 13-year old actress — a movie in which she says all the naughty words our parents taught us not to say, even the “c” word — but she commits to the role and drives it home with charisma that is far beyond her years.”
- Neil Miller, Film School Rejects

“But no one could rip their eyes away from little Chloe Moretz when she was running her blades through the backs of drug dealers. She was fantastic. Her chemistry with her father, played by Nic Cage, was spot on; her fight scenes were expertly choreographed, and she knew how to kick ass on screen. Everyone is going to be talking about her attitude, and everyone will be dressed like her for Halloween. Her screen time was nothing short of delightful.”
- Meredith Woerner, io9

“Make no mistake about it, Chloe Moretz (500 Days of Summer) owns this movie. She may only be 11 years old, but her performance as Hit-Girl is spunky, sassy, and exciting. Hit-Girl is poised to become a new comic cult icon, and Kick-Ass is quite simply a rollicking good time.”
- Shannon Hood, The Flick Cast

“A potty-mouthed pip-squeak trained in weaponry and weird sidelong glances by her cop-turned-vigilante freakazoid father – Big Daddy, played with typically nutty gusto by Nicolas Cage – Mindy doesn’t have the title role in Kick-Ass, but her presence is everything. Chloe Moretz, a 13-year-old who has already amassed more than 30 credits on her IMDB page, gives a performance of prodigious cool.”
- Steven Rea, Philly.com

“The adventures of the teenage Kick-Ass are often hilarious, but it’s a father-daughter pair of vigilantes — Big Daddy and Hit-Girl — who steal the movie. Chloe Moretz (of (500) Days of Summer) is terrific as the fearless and foul-mouthed 11-year-old Hit-Girl. [...] But it is the plucky Moretz who dazzles. Even as she wields outlandish weaponry, she comes off as adorable. Her devotion to her father adds a touching note amid the bloodletting and whacked-out mayhem.”
- Claudia Puig, USA Today

“By far, the best performance was by Chloe Moretz as the Samurai sword-yielding “Hit-Girl.” She played the part perfectly, flipping between excited daddy’s-little-girl to the all-business superhero putting down roomfuls of grown men.”
- Hannah Alanis, Coyote Chronicle

“…a wonderful young talent playing her heart out with no restraint.”
“With Hit Girl, Moretz is this year’s It Girl, alternately sweet, savage and scary. Tearing about like the Looney Tunes’ Tasmanian Devil, Moretz makes you believe she really could beat the stuffing out of grown men two or three times her size.”
“It’ll never happen, but she deserves a supporting-actress nomination come Academy Awards time.”
- David Germain, Associated Press