The Prodigy (2005) Reviews
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8 out of 10 people found this review helpful This movie is a bit hard to find, so if you stumble over it feel lucky. It's low budget and rips off some ideas from some pretty great films but then it creates idea's of it's own and kicks some ... Read More This movie is a bit hard to find, so if you stumble over it feel lucky. It's low budget and rips off some ideas from some pretty great films but then it creates idea's of it's own and kicks some major @ss even with the low budget.
Very watchable if you can look past the low budget stunts and action (though for what they spent on it they came up with some very inventive and sweet stuff).
If the director had a budget this movie would have been amazing. Think Boodock saints, Seven and Saw mixed together in a lowbudget blender and then made cooler then it has a right to be. Close this Review WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL? Yes | No | ||
4 out of 5 people found this review helpful I was expecting the film to be about this guy teaching his prodigy. If you like action and this is a good film it combines lots of ideas from other movies and also adds its own twists. Overall i ... Read More I was expecting the film to be about this guy teaching his prodigy. If you like action and this is a good film it combines lots of ideas from other movies and also adds its own twists. Overall i would like this to have been a big budget film. Some of the ideas where not very well plotted and some scenes could have been more realistic to truly make this a classic. Close this Review WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL? Yes | No | ||
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful Terrible. All 40 minutes of it. That was as long as I could stand to watch this. I am a huge fan of low budget and indie films. This movie is both. The premise for this film was very enticing and who ... Read More Terrible. All 40 minutes of it. That was as long as I could stand to watch this. I am a huge fan of low budget and indie films. This movie is both. The premise for this film was very enticing and who doesn't like a good assassin flick. However, 40 minutes later there is no more plot than in the first 40 seconds. There was no good vs. evil. Nobody to hope would make it out alive. Not even a decent anti-hero. Alien vs. Predator has more going for it. If you like senseless violence and 30 minute mind-numbing gun fights, this film's for you. Close this Review WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL? Yes | No | ||
0 out of 1 people found this review helpful I LOVED this movie. Particularly as this is essentially an idie/lo-budget flick. Gotta like a movie where the "good" guy's not all that good a guy and the bad guy is REALLY bad. Great script, ... Read More I LOVED this movie. Particularly as this is essentially an idie/lo-budget flick. Gotta like a movie where the "good" guy's not all that good a guy and the bad guy is REALLY bad. Great script, particularly well acted all around. Nice twists and turns. Action/fight sequences were well done - though certainly not in the John Woo category. All in all, an excellent ride. Fun, violent, unexpected. Good find. Close this Review WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL? Yes | No | ||
1 out of 8 people found this review helpful Just because you can entertain this way doesn't mean you should. This is a very negative movie without any redeeming characters. It is similar, in this way, to TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985). There ... Read More Just because you can entertain this way doesn't mean you should. This is a very negative movie without any redeeming characters. It is similar, in this way, to TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985). There is a lot of shooting and killing and ruthless sadistic violence without anyone in particular to cheer on as the hero. Director William Kaufman gives you a choice between the bad, the evil or the monster. If entertainment is not uplifting some way, it has no worth. I don't need a happy Hollywood ending but I do require more than violence for its own sake. And why is it called THE PRODIGY? It seems to be misnamed. The main character, Truman, never takes an actual lesson from the mysterious hooded hit-man and shows no inclination of taking on his work. Folks, looking at the response this review is getting, I wonder if our SOPRANOS culture is giving its respect to the wrong things in life. Close this Review WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL? Yes | No |
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