Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 136
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 130
A murky thriller with few chills, Godsend is features ludicrous dialogue, by-the-numbers plotting, and an excess of cheap shocks.
Average Rating: 3.3/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 34
A murky thriller with few chills, Godsend is features ludicrous dialogue, by-the-numbers plotting, and an excess of cheap shocks.
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Paul (Greg Kinnear) and Jessie Duncan (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) have barely begun the grieving process when Dr. Richard Wells (Robert De Niro) attends the funeral of the Duncans' eight-year-old son, Adam (Cameron Bright), with a pressing question in tow. Head of the Godsend Fertility Clinic, Dr. Wells claims he can use Adam's rapidly dying cells to clone a replica of the boy, though the necessary DNA will only be viable for another 24 hours. The process in itself is completely illegal; not only
Dec 1, 2003 Wide
Aug 17, 2004
$14.3M
Lions Gate Films
All Critics (137) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (130) | DVD (15)
As in most bad thrillers, the number of pointless shocks increases in direct proportion to the drama's decreasing vitality, like defibrilator paddles jolting a dying man.
A pea-brained hodgepodge of The Omen (1976), The Sixth Sense (1999), and about 30 Grade-Z Bela Lugosi mad-scientist movies.
Sometimes interesting but always predictable.
Working from the assumption that nobody remembers grade school science, let alone the last 30 years of horror movies, Nick Hamm's genre mishmash clumsily recasts The Omen as a cautionary tale featuring a human incarnation of Dolly the sheep.
Awful movie.
A silly if sporadically jolting thriller.
A bad thriller that is too intense for tweens.
"Godsend" suffers from a feeble plot, laughable dialogue, and thriller cliches that barely effect the characteristic jolts of the genre.
As anticipated the climax is very abrupt and unresolved, but by then I just didn't care, and was so glad to see this junk come to an end.
It ends up like any mass produced genre piece in which the only thing that is well developed is the film negative.
Occasionally suspenseful but more often ludicrous.
It seems a shame to waste any of these actors on a movie with no higher aspirations than educing a few second-rate chills.
The script is long on the Big Issues, but comes up short in compelling dialogue. It needed a couple more drafts.
[Relies] on cheap shocks instead of honestly exploring how the parents of a dead child might feel about raising his clone.
An embarrassingly nonsensical misfire.
Robert de Niro - once great actor whose name on a poster now tells anyone interested in good film to run to the hills
This pudgy, obvious DeNiro is definitely not the one I grew up admiring.
A film that was so by-the-numbers that they filmed FIVE (count 'em) five different endings.
I had the decency to stay in the theatre for the duration -- the filmmakers could have at least done the same and finished the darned movie.
Takes potentially interesting material and turns it into sleazy genre trash.
None of it is compelling in the least because it's readily apparent that all aspects of the plot serve no real function other than to create "creepy kid" scenes.
It's mangled into an Omen-lite disaster area, thanks to a script torn between making a moral point about cloning and cheap shocks.
holy craap ANOTHER SECRET WINDOW ENDING MOVIE??? man i guess i just forgot how many movies used that ending
June 23, 2009Super Reviewer
Human cloning is the topic, and it would of been a great movie had they kept it just as that. The movie itself had a great plot & start but the horror twist that they decided to throw in kind of ruined it.... They could of played with a persons emotions and really made a good flick without the cheesy special effects
December 8, 2008Super Reviewer
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