Great Film overall

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The movie is an incoherent mess. The movie actually has no ending. The kid is whako and the parents leave it at that. None of the visions make any sense or is explained in a way that doesn't make you laugh. The father's head is cracked open and recovers without even a band-aid.As suggested in other movies: The kid should have killed the doctor, the father who doesn't even seem to have a concussion should have started having visions from getting whacked in the head, the mother should have been committed to an institution (hopefully with an accompanying nude scene). The kid then gets cured at some point by re-engineering his genes. He is now living serenely with the father who now calls himself "Zach". The picture ends with a freeze frame of his eyes lighting up like Michael Jackson at the end of thriller. Good night.

From director Nick Hamm (The Hole), I had seen the leading actor make a little error with Hide and Seek, so I was wondering if this critically unpopular film would be the same. Basically Paul (Greg Kinnear) and Jessie Duncan (X-Men and Ugly Betty's Rebecca Romijn) lose their eight year old son Adam (The Butterfly Effect's Cameron Bright), on the day of his eighth birthday, and they are in serious mourning. While they are making arrangements for a funeral and stuff, they meet genetic scientist Richard Wells (Robert De Niro) who tells them of his extensive stem cell research. He says that he can give them their son back, cloning his DNA and placing it into Jessie's womb to give birth to their son all over again, to look and be exactly the same, and it is successful. They are happy for eight years in their new surroundings (to avoid the law), and then things go wrong on Adam's birthday, the day he died. Slowly subtle differences are appearing in the new Adam, he is suffering severe nightmares and flashbacks that start turning into an alternative personality, Zachary. Jessie is obviously much more connected to the new Adam than maybe Paul, he believes that his son is turning evil and that the authorities should know about the whole affair to get some help, but Richard is very forceful to make sure that this big secret is kept secret. De Niro, Kinnear and Romijn are all alright, the story wasn't completely predictable for me, it was in fact pretty confusing and a little rubbish, a not very convincing or interesting horror thriller, but a bit watchable. Okay!

This movie was poor!!!!! Could not get into it from the start.........and when I finally did it ended. Also the end poor and obviously showing that the boy is still troubled by it all so was a pointless time to end, and the point with De Niro looking in the obituaries to find another kid was wrong...... Was he not there during the 1st cock up???? Best bit of the film was the church scene which the only bit that kept me entertained. The times they tried to make it scary didn't pay off either, like in the bath tub.... how many times have we seen something like that happen???? Totally expected. The plot was poor, Romijn acting worse and feel sorry for stars like Kinnear and De Niro, caught up in this shambolic movie, directed by an unknown. Avoid this film as only giving it a 2 out of 5 **

My Take: Boring rehash that wastes its cast and its audience as well. From a title like "Godsend" or "The Omen" or "The Exorcist", one can't have an idea that the film being presented is a religion-based horror flick. Sadly I say, this isn't. "Godsend" is a science-fiction story about resurrection. The film opens with the birthday celebration of young Adam (Cameron Bright), the son of couple Paul (Greg Kinnear)and Jessie (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) Duncan. The film continues a few days later when Adam becomes victim of a car accident. While Paul and Jessie grieve the death of their son, scientist Richard Wells (Robert DeNiro) approaches them with a message of hope, their son can be brought back to life. After a couple of experiments, they have brought Adam back to life. Pretty soon, this 'new' Adam begins to have nightmares, terrifying revelations of a boy named Zachary (who looks like him) and a burning school. Of course, these are just nightmares, or a trick of the imagination, but can it be real? Oooohhh... The better question is can director Nick Hamm overcome the growing tedium of the script? How many more plot twists and revelations are they gonna keep throwing at us before we all say in unison that we don't get it? Can Robert DeNiro salvage his career in such a career-derailing role? Do I have to tell you where all this is going? Rating: 0 out of 5.