This must have slipped past me at the cinema - a big regret! But at least I caught it last night on TV and it was a fine way to spend the early morning hours. It's hardly highly original and it has a dark, comic-book (super-villain) feel to it that initially had me wanting to laugh, but dialogue , action, direction, etc., are so tight that it soon had me drawn into the plot. Boggs does a remarkable job in bringing the hardened mobster Truman Fisher sympathetically to life, in contrast to the complete soul-lessness of the evil killer he pursues.There are moments which reminded me of, for example, Saw and Se7en and though the plot falters slightly towards the end as we are led towards the significance of the intrusive flash-forward/dream sequences that pepper the film it redeems itself with a cute touch of Angel Heart.Shame about the title. Slightly too comic-book for the final content of the film. The sort of title that might better suit a Jet Li film than this little gem.

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.

When I first heard of this film, I was afraid that it would just be some vaguely action-oriented slasher flick. Fortunately, my fears were baseless: what I found was a well-shot action-thriller. The cliché's I feared never appeared, and when they seemed about to, my expectations were turned upside down.I was surprised by the sheer number of images that have stuck with me. Oddly, such great images are not inside their trailer, so I was caught totally unaware by the talent of the Director of Photography.Also, and this is a concern in many movies, there are not many strong women characters. There is one woman, memorably, in the film that puts up a really excellent fight. I was surprised, and I wish that there were more women in these kinds of film that are more than window dressing and bad-guy fodder.Highly Entertaining.

Although I'm a little fatigued with the 'bullets and blood' shorts and features that are produced wholesale, I was genuinely stunned with the quality of this production. I have produced 10 shorts and 2 micro-budget features, so I feel the pain of being held back by monetary restrictions. Yet with this film I never once thought 'if only they had the funds and/or time to do that the right way'. If they would have announced the budget at 5 million, I would have said that it was money well spent. The cinematography was the best I have seen from a local production, the characters and acting were completely convincing, and the editing, pacing, and score were spot-on (if you notice any of these, then it becomes irritating) and did nothing to detract from the story…which I found refreshingly unique and richly layered. If I had a distribution company I would have signed them in the lobby after the screening.