Godsend (2004)

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Despite the many legal, ethical and moral issues raised by the offer, the grieving couple, after much soul searching, accept Wells’ proposal, placing them in a sort of Faustian pact with the doctor. But to the Duncans, the secrecy Wells demands is insignificant compared to the hope that their son will again have the chance to grow up. The couple moves to the small town of Riverton, home of Wells’ impressive Godsend Fertility Clinic, where the stem cells carrying Adam’s DNA are implanted in Jessie’s womb and where Adam will be born and raised -- for the second time

Adam’s new life follows a comfortable and, to Paul and Jessie, predictable pattern, until he reaches his eighth birthday -- and virtually begins living on borrowed time.

The parents have placed their complete trust in Dr. Wells, but now questions are raised and they start to wonder: just how far did he really go? Did he settle for simply playing God? Once they unravel the

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Godsend is godawful. That's not a statement I expected to be making 30 minutes into this 102-minute motion picture. 

The acting is hammy, the story’s riddled by credibility gaps, and the technical aspects are dreary. In other words, it’s a perfect B-movie horror film, except that very little happens at a very slow pace. 

--Sean O'Connell (FilmCritic.com)

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Great premise, decent acting, nice score, a few "boo scares", but ultimately very little in terms of entertainment value, originality, depth or thrills. A cheapie video rental at best. 5/10

--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)

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Neither very scary nor very interesting, Godsend is an unresurrectable muddle, and one that Stephen King and Mary Lambert pulled off with much more aplomb (minus the sci-fi, of course) in Pet Sematary. 

--Marc Savlov (Austin Chronicle)

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Godsend is an interesting film to follow while you are sitting there watching it - it explores some interesting questions about a subject that until not too long ago was in the realm of science fiction and is now all of a sudden a rather chilling scientific reality. 6/10

--W. Andrew Powell (The Gate.ca)

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The picture, which fails to achieve its ambitions or to fulfill our expectations, is ultimately worse than a violent piece of hack work, in which the director isn't interested in displaying his integrity — or taste.

--Elvis Mitchell (The New York Times)

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No matter; "Godsend" isn't about cloning so much as about shock, horror, evil, deception and the peculiar appeal that demonic children seem to possess for movie audiences. 

--Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)

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What did the boy's mom (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) and dad (Greg Kinnear) expect, given the fact that they go out of their way to give Adam No. 2 a haircut that makes him look like something out of "Children of the Corn"? Heck, if a barber butchered my 'do like that, I'd change my name to Damian and flip out, too.

--Michael O'Sullivan (Washington Post)

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An intellectually barren thriller about the dangers of playing with nature, the movie begins with promise. Scratch that. It doesn't begin with promise. We gave it the benefit of the doubt because maybe, just maybe, something might have come of it.

--Desson Thomson (Washington Post)

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The narrative is so bad that people were laughing at scenes that were supposed to be tense and gripping. D

--Gareth Von Kallenbach (Lee's Movie Info)

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Cast

Greg Kinnear As Good as It Gets, You've Got Mail, The Gift Rebecca Romijn-Stamos X-Men, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand Robert De Niro Goodfellas, The Godfather: Part II, Heat Cameron Bright The Butterfly Effect, Ultraviolet, Birth Merwin Mondesir Bones, Soldier's Girl, Seventeen Again Sava Drayton Jake Simons Terminal Invasion, The Interrogation of Michael Crowe, Crossed Over [more]

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Brian Tyler Constantine, Frailty, Bubba Ho-tep

Overall, the film is mediocre, with some good scares and an interesting and original premise. It just lacked the ability to go to the darker places it wanted to go. 5/10 --Nate Anderson (Movie-Vault.com) Godsend is recommended viewing for fans of thrillers or any member of the cast, especially Kinnear and De Niro, who continue to give solid performances in most every film they appear in; never letting themselves slack off in the hopes of still garnering a paycheck for putting forth the least amount of effort possible like so many actors seem to do these days.  --Joe Rickey (Movie-Gurus.com) GODSEND is a turgid little mood piece that manages to miss every opportunity to actually engage, much less terrify its audience.  --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews) With a hot topic subject matter as potentially fascinating as human cloning, this film should have been at the very least thought provoking. Simply put, Godsend is an utter waste of time.  --Mike Pereira (Bloody-Disgusting.com)

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