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A murky thriller with few chills, Godsend features ludicrous dialogue, by-the-numbers plotting, and an excess of cheap shocks.
All Critics (139) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (133) | DVD (5)
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. Jan 5, 2007 | Full Review…
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.
J. R. Jones
[Relies] on cheap shocks instead of honestly exploring how the parents of a dead child might feel about raising his clone. Jul 22, 2006
[Relies] on cheap shocks instead of honestly exploring how the parents of a dead child might feel about raising his clone.
Noel Murray
An embarrassingly nonsensical misfire. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
An embarrassingly nonsensical misfire.
An expert at the kind of jumpy scares that will make most audiences spend more time in the air than their seats, Hamm turns everyday locations like bathrooms and bedroom closets into sites of terror. Jul 3, 2004 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
An expert at the kind of jumpy scares that will make most audiences spend more time in the air than their seats, Hamm turns everyday locations like bathrooms and bedroom closets into sites of terror.
Jamie Russell
A pea-brained hodgepodge of The Omen (1976), The Sixth Sense (1999), and about 30 Grade-Z Bela Lugosi mad-scientist movies. Jun 6, 2004 | Full Review…
A pea-brained hodgepodge of The Omen (1976), The Sixth Sense (1999), and about 30 Grade-Z Bela Lugosi mad-scientist movies.
David Edelstein
Sometimes interesting but always predictable. May 6, 2004
Sometimes interesting but always predictable.
Rex Reed
Perhaps it's appropriate that a horror flick about cloning should be a derivative affair... Apr 17, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Perhaps it's appropriate that a horror flick about cloning should be a derivative affair...
Eddie Harrison
A bad thriller that is too intense for tweens. Dec 24, 2010 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A bad thriller that is too intense for tweens.
Nell Minow
"Godsend" suffers from a feeble plot, laughable dialogue, and thriller cliches that barely effect the characteristic jolts of the genre. May 8, 2009 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…
"Godsend" suffers from a feeble plot, laughable dialogue, and thriller cliches that barely effect the characteristic jolts of the genre.
Cole Smithey
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. Apr 29, 2009 | Full Review…
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.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
It ends up like any mass produced genre piece in which the only thing that is well developed is the film negative. Oct 18, 2008 | Full Review…
It ends up like any mass produced genre piece in which the only thing that is well developed is the film negative.
Urban Cinefile Critics
Occasionally suspenseful but more often ludicrous. Aug 7, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Occasionally suspenseful but more often ludicrous.
Mark Halverson
holy craap ANOTHER SECRET WINDOW ENDING MOVIE??? man i guess i just forgot how many movies used that ending
Super 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 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.
Further proof, if any were needed, that Robert De Niro will make any old tripe if the fee is right. This is an unbelievably awful, instantly forgettable paranormal chiller. The parents of a genetically cloned child spend the entire film trying to prove there's a malevolent kink in his DNA and then, when they find this to be true, they choose to ignore it! How's that for plotting? The kid isn't creepy enough to make an impact, and the film is so painfully dull it feels three times longer than it actually is.
A very original story about a controversial subject. Good performances all around with an almost eerie feel to the film. VERDICT: Definitely worth a watch, it's unlike any storyline I've ever seen
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