Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

bradkeller123 You will not see a better indie film ever and I still say if blows most of the studio films away. I'm not giving away any spoilers, this movie is so SICK you just have to see it for yourself. I don't know how they did it, but to have the combination of laughter and terror in the same movie is amazing. But what I took away from it mostly is pain. This movie wore me down, the fight scenes are so real and intense that they began to effect me physically as I watched. I really left the theater feeling like someone just kicked my ass. "The Prodigy" is a combination of old school and new technology film-making at it's best. It's a horror film, it's an action film, it's a drama, it's a martial arts movie, it's a sick and twisted comedy...Simply put this movie has it all.

Movize I was in Belgium this week and get a chance to see this movie (The Prodigy). I was visiting a friends home and watched the movie on DVD.  All I can say is this, Wow!  I was dumb struck from the beginning.  In the first 15 minutes there was more action than most movies have in their entirety.  The gun battles and fist fights were like no other ever filmed before.  The directing and acting was total quality. I never heard of these actors but they all did an amazing job.  I was really taken with the star of the film Holt Boggs and I really liked the female lead Diana Lee Inosanto.  Can't wait to see what they do next, hopefully a prequel or sequel to this movie. Also, your really going to like what the director Will Kaufman and his DP did on this film. They gave this movie both, a beautiful look and it was creepy all in one. Do yourself a favor and check this one out. I can't wait for the US release.

Justin Frazier It's been about 10+ years since I could actually say I enjoyed an action movie that has been released. There has been nothing but cheap Vin Diesel flicks with bad plots and diction that makes a 3rd grader sound good and the acting, lets just consider who plays in most of the action movies of the past decade...lets leave it at that.Not only was The Prodigy a great film, but the storyline kept the group I was with guessing through-out the picture. The fight scenes were authentic in a way that only a true fighter would know how to produce. A film of this caliber has the audience wanting a sequel to see where this concept could go!Would love to be able to see this again on the big screen and look forward to having it on DVD!

Shawn Watson The Prodigy begins with a drug deal going sour. Only instead of 2 sides facing off against each other in a typical Mafioso fashion, someone dressed like the Scarlet Pimpernel but with the aggression of Jason Voorhees on crack, appears out of nowhere armed with a zillion weapons and cuts them all down before getting into a brutal fistfight with last man standing Truman Fisher. The action is so searingly intense, it makes recent actioners like Running Scared look like a 70s episode of Seasame Street in comparison.The mystery villain is soon revealed to be some sort of mystical mega-psycho who goes by the name of Claude Rains (as he is, in a way, an invisible man) after he kidnaps the nephew of a gang boss. Truman Fisher is sent to find him but discovers that there is some kind of weird connection between him and Rains.That is where my understanding of the film ends as it becomes far too messy and unfocused. At a running time of 2 hours I feel a lot of fat could have been cut to keep a tighter, more nervously wrought pace. Whenever Rains is on screen, doing his shooting, slashing and torturing the film absolutely soars. But in between, when Fisher is going from one place to another, it really lags. And by the end you won't have a clue what's going on or why. Less filler during the second act and more coherence in the third would have made this film so much better. I wasn't the only one who felt this way as there were several people in the audience who left halfway through.Made on an unbelievably small budget of $219,000 the film honestly looks 10 times that amount. The action and fighting is amazing and Rains is a truly terrifying, imposing villain who pushes this film well out of the Crime genre and into Horror.Obviously, since the budget is so small, it won't star anyone you've really ever heard before but they do just fine. A few characters are completely superfluous and could have been cut-out in a more preferable, leaner running time however.The film is surprisingly stylish and action-packed considering it's low-budget nature but that doesn't excuse the increasing lack of sense as it goes on.Still, it's a fine attempt at film-making and adds something new to both Action and Horror.