Godsend
When a miracle becomes a nightmare, evil is born.
When a miracle becomes a nightmare, evil is born.
Drama, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
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2004
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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.
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Runtime:
102 min
Release date:
30 Apr 2004
Country:
CA, US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$25,000,000
Revenue:
$30,120,671
Awards:
N/A
Top Critics Reviews
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.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
5 Jan 2007
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:
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:
Sometimes interesting but always predictable.
– Rex Reed,
New York Observer,
6 May 2004
rotten:
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