I watched 1 hour of the movie and that was enough to conclude what a bad sh*t this is. I don't even want to spend time writing this comment... The movie begins with a big fight which took way too long. It didn't have a bad guy or a good guy, so you are just looking to a stupid fight. When it's finally clear who is the bad guy he gets killed!I had no idea what's the purpose of the main characters in the story, and couldn't really identify with the character. Just a sh*tty movie. Don't watch it. Save your money.

Glen Vorhis is a superb actor who plays a psychotic assassin who calls himself Rains (AKA "The Invisible Man") who has cunningly planned for years to bequeath his inauspicious legacy to an unwitting, abused pre-adolescent who must ultimately be molded into a like-minded psychopathic killer. Glen's subtle skills to portray his character are absolutely riveting in this action thriller… Glen's development of this pernicious character is reminiscent of Anthony Perkins's role as Norman Bates in "Psycho"."The Prodigy" is listed as a 2004 release, but just recently aired at a Texas theater for the first time and the DVD was released June 12, 2007. This is Glen's first public release and he plays quite the villain! "The Prodigy" was made a few years ago in the small Texas town of Denison outside of Dallas/Fort Worth. I absolutely loved this flick !!! It's definitely not for the whole family or the faint-hearted. The action is non-stop mixed with mysterious "dark" drama. The most recent movie I've seen that compares is "Saw", but personally I had a whole lot more fun watching "The Prodigy". It is almost 3 hours, but you won't even realize the time has passed because there are few moments when you will not be on the edge of your seat. Try to imagine watching Jet Li doing stunts for Al Pacino as "Scarface" in the next sequel of the "Texas Chain Saw Massacre". You may find yourself wondering, "Who is Rains & what is his connection with the protagonist, Truman?" Just as in all of the "Kung Fu" and "Kill Bill" flicks, there is an underlying theme that the compulsive need exists for all "masters of genius" (whether they are essentially good or evil) to perpetuate their obsession by developing an apprentice or student of the craft (like Batman's Robin) and to mentor him/her in order to perpetuate their art/skills/craft/knowledge/etc.. The Deleted Scenes and the Director & Editor's Commentary are very helpful in understanding the subtlety of the story progression.Grab the DVD!

After see this movie, go urgently to a rental films store and look for a movie intituled "Caché"! If the intentions of Mr. William Kaufman were innovate the cinematographic language, you must watch that french movie and discover what innovation means. While the opening scenes of "Caché" is something never seen before - at least for me (I've watched almost 10.000 films in my 60 years of live) - "The Prodigy" (in its first 30 minutes) caused me a weird sensation: "Am I watching someone playing a video game or am I watching a film?". What a sequence of gratuitous scenes of violence! But after all, a ridiculous plot leads to ridiculous situations, for instance, that scene in which the "heroe(?)" has the opportunity to kill his "enemy": what a stupid cop would shot anyone in the body, mainly when that person is wearing night vision goggles, indicating surely the use of other safety equipments? By the way, Sam Peckinpak used scenes of extreme violence in his movie "Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia", shocking the majority of the spectators in 1974. But those "takes" were perfectly inserted in the context, what is not the case of "The prodigy"... As I don't want waste too many words to classify something that's better to forget, in a scale of 10, I vote: 1 (awful).

Okay, so it's a different premise completely but it's been that long since a movie gave me goose-bumps like this one did.Being a mad fan of gangland flicks, this DVD won out over about half a dozen well-received big name rentals tonight and rightly so. The fight scenes are incredibly realistic, disturbingly so in some cases, the acting generally pretty good (hey, if you didn't feel for Pat or King you must be Claude Rains material)and while the plot wasn't madly intricate it certainly went in different directions than one may have expected.While there are certain folks who may find fault- my wife's more of a horror fan & her response was 'great movie...but I don't know if I get it..'- if you're into gangland movies, dark suspense or just flat-out psycho fare, you'll surely love this. Superb.