Godsend (2004)
Average Rating: 3.3/10
Reviews Counted: 137
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 131
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: 38
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 37
A murky thriller with few chills, Godsend is features ludicrous dialogue, by-the-numbers plotting, and an excess of cheap shocks.
liked it
Average Rating: 2.5/5
User Ratings: 40,082
My Rating
Movie Info
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
Watch It Now
Cast
-
Greg Kinnear
Paul Duncan -
Rebecca Romijn
Jessie Duncan -
Robert De Niro
Dr. Richard Wells -
Cameron Bright
Adam Duncan -
Marcia Bennett
Principal Hersch -
Zoie Palmer
Susan Pierce -
Janet Bailey
Cora Williams -
Devon Bostick
Zachary Clark Wells -
Deborah Odell
Tanya -
Merwin Mondesir
Maurice -
Raoul Bhaneja
Samir Miklat -
Jenny Levine
Sandra Shaw -
Jake Simons
Dan Sandler -
Elle Downs
Clara Sandler
ADVERTISEMENT
All Critics (138) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (131) | 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.
An embarrassingly nonsensical misfire.
Top CriticA 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 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.
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.
Some bad horror flicks take a while to reveal their ineptitude, but not so Godsend; it's identified as a chunk o' junk during the opening credits!
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.
Audience Reviews for Godsend
Super Reviewer
They could of played with a persons emotions and really made a good flick without the cheesy special effects and crazy son killing a mother for no reason at all. Why would one be interested in cloning a kid who butchered his entire family knowing mental traits would be passed on as well? It does not make much sense after the first half...
It's still an interesting show to watch and the concept is easy to grasp with some interesting food for thought. But it's not the best, and could of been much better.
Super Reviewer
Discussion Forum
There are no discussion threads for Godsend yet.
Latest News on Godsend
April 22, 2008:
Pacino, De Niro Take Lumps for Recent ChoicesRobert De Niro and Al Pacino might be among the greatest living American actors -- but have they...
What's Hot On RT
Bradley Cooper's Best Movies
Fast & Furious 6 is Certified Fresh
Fast & Furious cars gallery
Blockbusters ranked!
Featured on RT
- Critics Consensus: Fast & Furious 6 is Certified Fresh 37
- Red Carpet Photos with Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Gina Carano and More 0
- Video: The Hangover Part III Cast Interviews 0
- Total Recall: Bradley Cooper's Best Movies 40
- Parental Guidance: Epic and Beautiful Creatures 2
- Comic Book Movies You Can Watch Online 9
- In Pictures: The Cars of Fast & Furious 0
Top Headlines
-
Evan Peters Joins X-Men: Days of Future Past
0
-
Toby Jones Talks Captain America: The Winter Soldier
1
-
The Poltergeist Reboot May Actually Be a Sequel
11
-
Will Forte Promises MacGruber 2
1
-
Universal Plans Timecop Reboot
2
-
Return of the Jedi Turns 30
1
-
Vin Diesel Says Fast & Furious 7 Will Take Place in L.A.
0
Fresh Links
Featured
Star Trek Movies Ranked
HitFix offers their own take on the worst-to-best of the Enterprise crew's cinematic adventures.
Top 10 Star Trek Villains
Rolling Stone unveils the Enterprise's most irksome adversaries.
Celebrity Yearkbook Flashback
We'll bet you never realized how many stars were cheerleaders and high school athletes!
50 Most Classic Movie Moms
In celebration of Mother's Day, TimeOut offers up 50 iconic matriarchs from the big screen.
Weirdest Movie Siblings
From Twins to The Royal Tenenbaums, Moviefone explores cinema's oddest siblings.
Promos
Follow RT on Twitter!
Spice up your feed with hourly Tomatometer updates!
