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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
OFCS Rating: 3% Rotten
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