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Movie Overview
Cast
Greg Kinnear
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
Robert De Niro
Director
Nick Hamm
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - for violence including frightening images, a scene of sexuality and some thematic material
Godsend (2004)
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OFCS Rating: 3% Rotten
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"Unabashed hokum."
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Betty Jo Tucker
3/5
"Questions themselves are much more engaging than the actual answers."
So You Wanna Sell A Script
Blake French
3/10
"I had the decency to stay in the theatre for the duration -- the filmmakers could have at least done the same and finished the darned movie."
Freeze Dried Movies
Brian Juergens
D+
"It's not that cloning is bad; it's that cloning done by
bad people
is bad."
AboutFilm.com
Carlo Cavagna
"No moving away, no contact with family or past friends: it's a relocation program for stupids. "
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
1.5/4
"...the film often resembles one of those cheesy straight-to-video thrillers which usually feature Eric Roberts and Kelly Rutherford."
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
2/10
"Robert de Niro - once great actor whose name on a poster now tells anyone interested in good film to run to the hills"
Draxblog Movie Reviews
Dragan Antulov
2/4
"Opts to waste its potential in favor of a barrage of cheap jump scares and clumsy plotting."
TheMovieBoy.com
Dustin Putman
C
"When it does finally get to where it's going, it rushes over the edge and into the pit of lunacy."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
1.5/4
"Have we been suckered into another cloned idea that should have been aborted at the minute of conception?"
eFilmCritic.com
Erik Childress
D+
"Opens promisingly and spins its wheels for a while before descending into complete, laughable incoherence."
Film Blather
Eugene Novikov
1.5/4
"...a flaccid frightfest that is all clumsy thumbs...a murky melodrama of crushingly half-hearted proportions"
Movie Eye
Frank Ochieng
F
"So not scary that it's positively frightening--and not in a good sense...Just stamp it as you would a piece of unwanted mail: Return to sender."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
1/5
"This psychological thriller about cloning doesn't take us into any fresh territory."
Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
1.5/4
"I'm still waiting for a movie that offers a real story about cloning; this isn't it."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
1.5/4
"None of it is compelling in the least because it's readily apparent that all aspects of the plot serve no real function other than to create “creepy kid” scenes."
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
3/5
"Atmospheric chiller about parenthood and peril has a cool, old-fashioned chill and subtle work from De Niro to help it along."
Netflix
James Rocchi
1/4
"A bargain basement thriller lacking both thrills and chills."
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
5/10
"It pains me to say that this film really isn't all that good."
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
JoBlo
1.5/4
"From God’s (rear)end to our cinema screens plops the latest pile of obsequious Hollywood ****: the aptly and ironically titled
Godsend
."
Slant Magazine
Keith Uhlich
D
"A young boy scans the movie theater and whispers, ‘I see bored people.’ Welcome to Hollywood’s latest attempt to duplicate The Sixth Sense."
FilmStew.com
Larry Carroll
1.5/5
"A dreary slog through haunted-child movie cliches."
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Maitland McDonagh
1.5/4
"A bland story with nothing going for it but a moderately timely premise"
Movie Habit
Marty Mapes
"[A]ll the awfulness you’ve been expecting spread throughout the film will be crammed into the last 30 minutes in an orgy of bad filmmaking..."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
C-
"A mishmash of jumpy surprises and creepy portents, with a dash of exposition drivel, some scenery-chewing, and stuff that even in suspending disbelief mode makes no sense. "
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Nell Minow
C
"This pudgy, obvious DeNiro is definitely not the one I grew up admiring."
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
2/5
"Uma versão ruim e 'científica' (com enormes aspas) do superior
Cemitério Maldito
– o que já é o bastante para que você tenha uma idéia da dimensão do desastre."
Cinema em Cena
Pablo Villaca
2/5
"The latest in a series of quote-unquote horror flicks that offer much in the way of cheap 'reach out and grab you' frights and little in terms of originality or genuine scares."
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
"A soulless clone."
Critic Doctor
Peter Sobczynski
2/5
"Some genuinely jumpy scenes, but it's so vacuous that it almost doesn't register at all."
Shadows on the Wall
Rich Cline
1/5
"Hopelessly predictable, consistently uninteresting and almost entirely worthless."
eFilmCritic.com
Scott Weinberg
2/5
"a series of ludicrous scientific explanations offset by cheap jolts to our nervous system."
Filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell
1/10
"Given the credibility of its cast, it's the worst picture so far this year."
Modamag.com
Susan Granger
1.5/4
"A nonsensical and overwrought update of
The Bad Seed
."
Reel.com
Timothy Knight
2/4
"A cheat of the worst kind."
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
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