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  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Lightyear Entertainment
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Lightyear Entertainment
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary Charlie Shepard is a modern day faith healer, a man who claims that if you let go and believe, then his power to heal is very real indeed. Living a hand-to-mouth, blue collar existence with his wife Rebecca and young son, Charlie ekes out a meager living from his "healing" sessions. With his marriage failing, and an old drinking habit co...

Directed By: Robert Saitzyk

Written By: Cory Knauf, Joseph McKelheer, Robert Saitzyk

  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Lightyear Entertainment
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Lightyear Entertainment
  • 1 h 39 m

Godspeed

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Charlie Shepard is a modern day faith healer, a man who claims that if you let go and believe, then his power to heal is very real indeed. Living a hand-to-mouth, blue collar existence with his wife Rebecca and young son, Charlie ekes out a meager living from his "healing" sessions. With his marriage failing, and an old drinking habit co...

Directed By: Robert Saitzyk

Written By: Cory Knauf, Joseph McKelheer, Robert Saitzyk

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
42
14% Positive
1 Review
71% Mixed
5 Reviews
14% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
42
14% Positive
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71% Mixed
5 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review

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70
A weird, wordy but oddly compelling thriller.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
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.
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40
Earnest to a fault, this tale of vengeance and retribution strives for Faulknerian pathos, but never rises above amateur theatrics.
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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.
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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.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
40
Never really gets up to speed on any engrossing level, save for Michael Hardwick's notable cinematography.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
25
Quite a slog, with most of the acting strictly amateurish save the veteran Ed Lauter as a fish and game inspector.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Helios Productions (II), Highlander Films, Alterity Films, Film Harvest
Release Date Mar 26, 2010
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Glory Is The Fear
Website http://www.godspeedthefilm.com/
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Awards

CineVegas International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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