Godsend

Name: Godsend
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Released: April 30, 2004
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 24
Cast: Cameron Bright, Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn, Robert De Niro

2004

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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 32 Critics

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Lions Gate Films | Release Date: April 30, 2004

Starring: Cameron Bright, Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn, Robert De Niro

Summary: Paul and Jessie Duncan (Kinnear, Romijn-Stamos) have lost their beloved eight year-old son Adam (Bright) in a tragic accident. As they are arranging for his burial, Dr. Richard Wells (De Niro) approaches with the incredible offer to clone, and bring back their boy. (Lions Gate Films)

Director: Nick Hamm

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Horror

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 102 min

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Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman

The umpteenth recycled shocker about a mystical dark child with an aura of disaster. Read full review

Baltimore Sun - Chris Kaltenbach

Godsend is two-thirds of a good movie, with a final third that's just downright awful. So much wasted potential only makes the whole thing that much more painful. Read full review

Film Threat - Pete Vonder Haar

When is a horror movie not a horror movie? When it’s a strained, by-the-numbers production that limps to an unlikely conclusion like Godsend. Read full review

Washington Post - Michael O'Sullivan

As the film's boo! moments get spookier and more frequent, Godsend gets more and more inane. Read full review

Miami Herald - Rene Rodriguez

An unsatisfying, overly restrained bore, capped off by an ending so strange and inconclusive, it feels like something you'd find on the ''deleted scenes'' portion of a DVD. Read full review

San Francisco Chronicle - Mick LaSalle

In Godsend, we have the spectacle of three good actors tied to the mast of a sinking premise. Read full review

Slate - David Edelstein

Turns into a pea-brained hodgepodge of "The Omen" (1976), "The Sixth Sense" (1999), and about 30 Grade-Z Bela Lugosi mad-scientist movies. Read full review

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FelixQ.

Jul 25, 2006

For the most part, not terrible. It's a fair, if not wholely unique concept, and terrifically cast. It's not as bad as it's painted, it's really quite passable- a mid level thriller with the creepiest (I mean that in a good way!) child actor ever. I would've given For the most part, not terrible. It's a fair, if not wholely unique concept, and terrifically cast. It's not as bad as it's painted, it's really quite passable- a mid level thriller with the creepiest (I mean that in a good way!) child actor ever. I would've given it an 8, but really I expected more from the ending. As I said, the concept itself is intriguing if slightly over-used, but a great ending would've pulled this whole thing up.… Expand

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Deluge

Sep 18, 2005

Godsend is a terrible thriller. It's not worth watching in theaters, not worth renting it on DVD not even worth watching it on channel 45 if it airs on tv.

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