Godspeed
Metascore
42 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    70
    A weird, wordy but oddly compelling thriller.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    50
    What keeps Godspeed from lasting power are its melodramatic swerves and less-than-revelatory acting. But despite its fissures in tone and technique, Godspeed occasionally plays like a sturdy indie outpost of revenge cinema.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Michael Rechtshaffen
    40
    Never really gets up to speed on any engrossing level, save for Michael Hardwick's notable cinematography.
  4. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Andrew Grant
    40
    Earnest to a fault, this tale of vengeance and retribution strives for Faulknerian pathos, but never rises above amateur theatrics.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Aaron Hillis
    40
    The tone fits the material and the performances are surprisingly measured, but Saitzyk's sappy pontifications on loss, redemption, and zealotry don't register as headily as they're meant to (every character gets at least one melodramatic speech), and the spirituality invoked feels about as sincere as the Christian who only attends Christmas mass.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Justin Chang
    40
    A little less chatter and a little more splatter might have improved Godspeed, an initially intriguing but finally overwrought tale of murder, retribution and quasi-religious fanaticism set in the land of the midnight sun.
  7. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    25
    Quite a slog, with most of the acting strictly amateurish save the veteran Ed Lauter as a fish and game inspector.

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