 what's wrong with me what is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overlord here this is going to be the review for the prodigy the prodigy came out this weekend it's directed by nicholas mccarthy and it stars taylor schilling who i think is from orange is a new black britney alan um jason jackson roberts or jackson robert scott rather who i think he plays george from uh 2017 is it we have comb fior and peter mooney now essentially what this movie is is it's a combination of if you've seen the first chucking movie it's a combination of the first child's play a little bit of orphan from 2009 the omen the good son uh there's like a several films that this movie is basically mirroring and basically just carbon copies of uh not that that's what it's set out to do there's just nothing really all that original here and there's nothing new being brought to this like sort of sub genre that we have in horror involving scary kids typical run of the mill type of deal uh that comes out early in the early part portion of the evil for the good stuff starts coming out you know during the summer and whatnot there's nothing really to this movie outside of it there's some some very good performances particularly from the mother in the film taylor uh shillingham or whatever her name is i can't really pronounce it correctly if i'm pronouncing it wrong i apologize uh from her the kid who is in it jackson robert scott who plays miles in the film he does an amazing job switching in and out of miles and going into this dark center for this other character he's portraying that is occupying the body of miles uh the father in the film for what he's given and that goes just to not to get sidetracked but just to go into one of the cons uh the father while he is like sort of like a background character he gets more character development than the mother who was put into the uh put into the main scheme of things she's like the focus character she's the main character her and miles are the two main focus characters but she is very underdeveloped compared to the father who really isn't there for much outside of just being the father and he doesn't really contribute much to the movie because he's just kind of gone at a certain point and the movie never really doesn't does anything to make him feel important to the narrative but yet he gets developed more so than the central character in the mother who is her name is sarah and then the father's name i think was john so john gets more character development than sarah i thought that was rather a rather odd decision seen as how john wasn't even focused on as much as sarah um the acting was good the cinematography was good uh i'm not really too familiar with neil mccarthy as far as like a director is concerned i might have or nicolas mccarthy right i might have seen some of his other works uh but i thought for what what what i saw on screen the way he shot certain sequences and wait certain things played out i thought that was amazing uh or well well put together the downsides to the movie fall in the narrative because the narrative is kind of all over the place there's a few plot plot holes or questions rather that you have that never really get answered the movie kind of stumbles over itself towards the towards the middle and it starts becoming too predictable uh not that that's one of the flaws but it's just like you're not really going to be engaged in anything when you know how it's going to play out because from the very beginning of the movie they make it they make it clear how what you know is going to happen you kind of can just put it all together but then they're still telling you the the problem here is that they're giving you everything but they're still blatantly explaining it word for word in so so much detail you're showing us everything you don't need to explain it right along with us like i feel like this movie tried to hold the audience's hand too much you're trying to explain way too much in this runtime rather than building on these characters uh but the kid in the movie i think his performance was absolutely amazing jase or jackson roberts he jackson scott rather he did phenomenal he was amazing going in and out of plain miles and switching over into the other person who was in the body he had some very tense and um very intimidating moments in the film and you can just the way he he plays the role so so amazingly you can just see see it like the switch he makes the switch so abrupt and you can perfectly identify when he's making the switch from miles to the other person and it's like he's he's doing it with such ease and it's very it's very fun to watch for such a for a child actor you don't really get too many child actors these days that can do what he's doing right here but the biggest downside to the movie was its narrative there's several things that go unanswered a lot of things could have been left unexplained seeing as how they were being being explained as we're seeing them on screen i think that's one of the most annoying things about a lot of films that come out today they want to explain too much to the audience they want to hold the audience's hand they don't want to let the audience figure out what's going on not not to say that that's really how every movie should be but a lot of people they need to start paying attention to what they're watching versus having the movie come out and explain everything word for word not really too much to say about this movie because there's there was really nothing new here that it was bringing to the job where it was just a nice solid decent mix of child's play orphan the good son all of that good stuff if you've seen those movies and if you enjoy those movies i'm going to say you'll want to go out and check this out you don't i wouldn't say that something you should rush the theaters to go see if i were to rate it on a scale of one to ten i'm going to give it a six for the performances for the direction for the musical score that was that was accompanying some of the scenes and how it perfectly added to the tense the tense nature and some of the scenes that were on screen uh jackson jackson scott his performances miles was amazing uh taylor schilling she did amazing as well in her little role as the mother that's my review on the prodigy i'm sorry i didn't really have much to say on this movie because it didn't really bring anything new to the genre it wasn't bad but it wasn't great nothing memorable here definitely don't need to go rush out to see this in theaters i'm going to give it a six out of ten if you've seen the project let me know what you guys thought about it down in the comment section below if you haven't already subscribed and turn on post notifications in the description i'll have links to all my social media accounts on my facebook twitter and instagram you can message me there to let me know movies news or tv series you like me to cover 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