This is ostensibly the platonic ideal of a western, and with a very important angle: that the cowboy hero isn't civilized. The stranger, Con Vallain (Sam Elliott) is kind of a creep for a lot of this. He's very uncool towards another man's wife; not vile, just rude. And these are people he is helping out, not (just) because of her, but because he knows the family is in over their heads.
But. The story never pretends this is ok.…
This one I'm torn on. On one hand, I enjoyed the rollercoaster ride of the movie itself, but on the other, I don't think the first movie needed a sequel at all. Like, at all. I also don't love a lot of the sequel stuff we've thrown in either.
The retconning of her sister I'm fine with (probably because I just enjoy Kathryn Newton enough to make me not care that much) but the expansive world building, while fun on…
"Where should I put it, Antonio?"
Charming.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Bear with me for a moment while I imagine what it was like to pitch Prodigy to investors:
"What if Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lambs was ... a kid! But wait! So this kid killed her own mom! How messed up is that?! So she's in a gov't research think tank, like from Firestarter, but they wanna cut her open cuz, get this, she's not just like Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lambs, she's also kinda like…
