Godsend (2003)
Godsend (2003)
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Critic Consensus: 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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Cast
as Paul Duncan
as Jessie Duncan
as Dr. Richard Wells
as Adam Duncan
as Maurice
as Dan Sandler
as Clara Sandler
as Samir Miklat
as Sandra Shaw
as Jordan Shaw
as Max Shaw
as Hal Shaw
as Tanya
as Roy Hazen
as Mrs. Farr
as Godsend Receptionist
as Thug No. 2
as Delivery Nurse
as Foot Locker Cashier
as Cafe Owner Patricia
as Dr. Lieber
as Principal Hersch
as Godsend Nurse
as File Clerk
as Susan Pierce
as Cora Williams
as Zachary Clark Wells
as St. Pius Student
as St. Pius Student
as St. Pius Student
as St. Pius Student
as St. Pius Student
as High School Student
as Mr. Baker
as Mrs. Baker
Critic Reviews for Godsend
All Critics (138) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (132) | 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.
[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.
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.
Audience Reviews for Godsend
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.
Super Reviewer
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.
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