Miles (Jackson Robert Scott) is a child prodigy or "smarty-pants" to use the film technical term. We discover early that he is the reincarnation of Edward the serial killer (Paul Fauteux) who was shot and killed minutes before Miles was born. Edward is back to kill the one that got away and it isn't long before the parents realize Miles is messed up and he is looking at ink blots.

The film is pretty much what you expected. The ending could have gone a number of ways. They opted for the sequel version.

Guide: F-word. Brief male nudity.

When I was given the chance to sit down and watch this 2019 movie titled "The Prodigy" from writer Jeff Buhler and director Nicholas McCarthy, of course I took the chance. I mean, the movie does have a rather interesting cover and a horror movie that has some scary child in it usually tends to be worthwhile watching.

Usually...

"The Prodigy" was not particularly interesting, nor was it scary. If it was anything, it was predictable. Which was a shame, because that factor definitely took away a lot of enjoyment from the movie in my opinion.

I wanted to like "The Prodigy", I really did. But it was hard to like it because the storyline was just less than mediocre, and it wasn't a particular scary or disturbing movie in any way.

It should be said that they had some nicely casted actors and actresses to perform in the movie, and it was nice to see Colm Feore make an appearance in the movie.

"The Prodigy" just failed to cut it, and it wasn't a movie that really was particularly outstanding in the horror genre. Especially since it was so frightfully devoid of anything overly scary.

I will say that the concept of the movie was good, and there definitely was a lot of potential there - untapped and squandered potential, I might add.

My rating of "The Prodigy" settles on a less than mediocre four out of ten stars. I've seen the movie and can tick it off the watch list, but this is hardly a movie that I will be returning to watch a second time, as it just didn't have the contents to support multiple viewing - hardly had enough for the first time, to be honest.

Thoroughly enjoyed this! Don't judge by the poor reviews. Good solid story line and gd acting. Tense and thrilling in parts! Would watch again!