Prodigy

A two-hour movie that could have been done in 60 minutes (or less) and still achieved the same effect. It has a fatal flaw in extremely bad sound and overly-loud music in the last few minutes that made critical dialog very hard to understand. Anticlimactic in nature. Characters are cliche. Teen actor's voice is raspy and often difficult to understand. While the main story is mildly interesting, there is nothing original in this film, nor anything that makes it a "recommended watch". What starts out as an interesting premise turns into an excessively long yawner.

This movie has bad movie cliche all over it. Bad acting, poor story, terrible ending it is a cliched throw away movie you will not want to see again. Nothing redeeming except at the very end when the credits roll and you realize it is over.

This is the wrong kind of bad movie. Nothing fun like some cheesy 50's B movie sci-fi. This is plodding and dull exercise that will have you hitting fast forward in hopes something interesting happens. It is an okay story completely undone by poor acting, poor direction, poor scriptwriting and the worst editing and continuity I've ever had the misfortune to watch. Amazon Prime needs to do a better job choosing movies that show up on it's service.

Basically, a very cheap faith-based story with a poorly executed cliche every minute, horribly contrived situations, zombie-like acting, all working in unison to generate zero believability. There are absolutely no laughs, suspense, action or surprises for anyone who is not highly intoxicated. A cringe-fest and a complete waste of time.

In descending order of goodness: -The camerawork and general cinematography was really nice at times reminding me of much higher budget movies. -The concept was a good one. -The dramaturgy was fine and provided for some thrills and twists even if some of them ver really predictable. -The music used was good, but at times unfitting and always too loud. -The acting had it's moments from everyone involved, but also really bad moments from everyone involved. Decent effort, needs improvement. -The audio editing was not good. It wasn't quite as atrocious as other low profile movies, but bad enough to put this in the student movie category. -The story.... was atrocious. It left me with a 'damn this was awful' feeling, even though the whole thing wasn't really bad as a whole. The constant cringy dialogue and events and the super hamfisted religious bits... ugh

All in all if A movies are blockbusters, B aresmaller budget hollywood movies, C are direct to video, comedies, and arthouse, and series tie ins, and D are student films, this is a D movie. I hesitated between giving this a 4 or a 5, but eventually, it wasn't that bad, and it did some things right, the whole story just left one feeling profoundly unfulfilled and nonsensical and the ending didn't help much at all. It felt a bit like some american bible belt fantasy. If that kid was not jesus2.0 then he shouldn't have been acting like this much of a messiah figure. Nice effort, with lots of good bits, but could've been handled a lot better, with more believable characters especially the main father son duo, and a less shallow preachy plot