A couple agree to have their deceased son cloned under the supervision of an enigmatic doctor, but bizarre things start to happen years after his rebirth.
Working from the assumption that nobody remembers grade school science, let alone the last 30 years of horror movies, Nick Hamm's genre mishmash clumsily recasts The Omen as a cautionary tale featuring a human incarnation of Dolly the sheep.
– Mark Holcomb,
Village Voice,
4 May 2004
rotten:
Sometimes interesting but always predictable.
– Rex Reed,
New York Observer,
6 May 2004
rotten:
A pea-brained hodgepodge of The Omen (1976), The Sixth Sense (1999), and about 30 Grade-Z Bela Lugosi mad-scientist movies.
– David Edelstein,
Slate,
6 Jun 2004
rotten:
[Relies] on cheap shocks instead of honestly exploring how the parents of a dead child might feel about raising his clone.
– Noel Murray,
AV Club,
22 Jul 2006
rotten:
As in most bad thrillers, the number of pointless shocks increases in direct proportion to the drama's decreasing vitality, like defibrilator paddles jolting a dying man.