The 12th Annual Kick Ass Awards
This weekend the 90th Academy Awards are happening but more important right now is the 12th Annual Kick Ass Awards, Everything Action’s celebration of the best and worst from the previous year including such important categories as the best Jason Statham movie, the biggest Ass Kicker and what is our Kick Ass Movie of 2017? Read on to find out the winners of those and so much more.
Most Obscure Character Return: Eddie King in Arsenal
Best Directorial Comeback: M. Night Shyamalan with Split
Scariest Concept: The Sunken Place in Get Out
Best Xtreme Stuntz: xXx: The Return of Xander Cage
The “Thank God It’s Over” Award: Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
Best Batman Movie: The Lego Batman Movie
Best Low Key Shootout: John Wick vs Cassian
PC Principal Award for Biggest Outrage: The Great Wall (Runner Up: Ghost in the Shell, The Last Jedi)
Best Character Finale: Logan
Best Kaiju Action: Kong: Skull Island
Best Car Chase/Soundtrack Synergy: Baby Driver
Worst Day at the Office: The Belko Experiment (Runner Up: Mayhem)
Worst Product Placement Presented by Krispy Kreme: Power Rangers
Worst Attempt to Be 21 Jump St: Baywatch (Runner Up: CHiPs)
Most Needing a Spin-Off: The Shaw Family from Fate of the Furious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsTSN_SyU9E
Funniest MCU Movie: Thor: Ragnorak (Runner Up: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2)
Worst Explanation for Something That Didn’t Need Explaining: The Creation of the Xenomorphs in Alien: Covenant
The “That’s Enough, Johnny Depp” Award: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Worst Attempt at Updating a Classic Character: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Best Thing About the DC Cinematic Universe: Wonder Woman
Worst Attempt to Start a Cinematic Universe: The Mummy (RIP Dark Universe)
The “Probably the Worst Final Action Sequence in History” Award: Transformers: The Last Knight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfvvqlNArcU
Welcome Home Award: Spider-Man: Homecoming
The “Everything is Better with Zouks” Award: The House
Most Misleading Title for a Still Great Movie: War For the Planet of the Apes
The “War is Hell” Award: Dunkirk
Best Looking Trainwreck: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Most Exhaustingly Awesome Fight: Atomic Blonde
Worst Attempt at Condensing an Entire Book Series to One Movie: The Dark Tower
The “WTF is Even Happening” Award: Armed Response
Best Shane Black Impersonation: The Hitman’s Bodyguard
Best Use of Daniel Craig: Logan Lucky
Best Stephen King Adaptation: IT
Worst Use of Scott Adkins: American Assassin
Best Movie No One Saw: Blade Runner 2049
Strangest Plot Decision: Jackie Chan Disappearing for 1/3 of The Foreigner
Most Unforgivably Boring Disaster Movie: Geostorm
Worst Villain: Steppenwolf in Justice League
Worst Attempt to Relaunch a Horror Franchise: Jigsaw
The “Fun But Not As Good as the Book” Award: The Disaster Artist
Most Surprisingly Fun: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Best Use of “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by John Denver: Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Runners Up: Logan Lucky, Alien: Covenant)
Most Brutal Opening: Hostiles
Most Unnecessary Subplot: Finn and Rose’s Adventure in Canto Bight in The Last Jedi
Worst Netflix Original Movie: Bright
Ass Kicker of the Year: John Wick (Runner Ups: Wonder Woman, Lorraine Broughton, Deckard Shaw, Xander Cage, Logan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEU3HXXqEw0
Steven Seagal Direct to DVD Award, Sponsored by Lightning Energy: Savage Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd_8A42gwng
Jason Statham Award for Excellence in Stathaming: The Fate of the Furious
Lincoln Hawks Memorial Over the Top Award: xXx: The Return of Xander Cage
Kick Ass Movie of the Year: Logan (Runners Up: John Wick Chapter 2, Lego Batman, Wonder Woman, IT, Guardians Vol. 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFwOlEzzeFg