The Prodigal is a martial arts flick based on the Biblical parable of the prodigal son, but set in the modern day. Instead of wishing to eat corn husks, our hero finds himself surrounded by his drug dealer pals with the most pschyo of them about to torture him to death.

The martial arts is A calibre, and the movie is worth watching just for that. But it has an added layer as the hero struggles between his rage and his faith (and at least once they seem to work together).

They do some interesting camera tricks which mostly help.

The actor does a very good job of portraying someone with deep wells of berserk fury. He might be good as the source for the CGI for the next Incredible Hulk movie. Too bad that he is black, or he could play Bruce Banner as well as he does a fairly credible mild manner as well.

The setting is primarily a Southern backwoods town which is another bit of added interest. The story as a whole is not too surprising, but what they do with the bits and pieces, the interesting variations they work are good. Its a movie made of nothing too shockingly different, but each bit is different enough, clever enough that it adds up to something quite cool indeed.

And of course, the last bit of humor, you need to watch into the credits for, definitely.