The Worst Film Ever

A Disappointing Continuation

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Godsend is a horror film that stars Greg Kinnear,Rebecca Romijn,Cameron Bright and Robert De Niro. It is directed by Nick HammPaul and Jessie Duncan have barely begun the grieving process when Dr. Richard Wells attends the funeral of the Duncans' eight-year-old son, Adam, with a pressing question in tow. Head of the Godsend Fertility Clinic, Dr. Wells claims he can use Adam's rapidly dying cells to clone a replica of the boy, though the necessary DNA will only be viable for another 24 hours. The process in itself is completely illegal; not only must Jessie and Paul be forced to relocate, but they will also be forced to sever all ties with friends and family in order to ensure the secret remains so. Within the space of a day, the Duncans consider the legal and ethical implications of such a procedure, ultimately deciding that their love for Adam is enough to trump the law and any high-minded philosophical questions. After resettling in an idyllic town near Dr. Wells' clinic, Jessie is impregnated with the late Adam's living cells, while Paul is given a beautiful home and a more than suitable job. Shortly afterward, the new Adam,a seemingly identical to the original Adam in every way, is born and lives a life quite similar to his predecessor until the morning of his eighth birthday. A series of night terrors is the first thing to disturb the Duncans' otherwise serene lifestyle. Adam's violent visions eventually mutate to ill temper, and an aura of menace permeates the aura of a boy who had otherwise been sweetness incarnate from the day of his birth. Eventually, Paul discovers that Dr. Wells is not a pediatrician, but a geneticist, and that their playing God may have been a Faustian bargain of epic proportions.It seems a shame to waste any of these actors on a movie with no higher aspirations than educing a few second-rate chills as it suffers from a feeble plot, laughable dialogue, and thriller clichés that barely effect the characteristic jolts of the genre.Basically,it features ludicrous dialogue and an excess of cheap shocks.The only thing developed in it is the film's negative.

first to respond to a previous reviewer 7 aren't C's ! Here is how it works ( in France and others European countries you get marks from 0 to 20 not letters as letters are to subjective and scientifically irrelevant ). so A is 16 to 20 that means 8 to 10 on a 10 scale, B is 13 to 15 = 6.5 - 7.5 C is 10-12 that is 5 to 6, D is 7 -9 means 3.5 to 4.5 , E is 2-3 F, is 0 to 1.5 . ( of course you can tweak it with + ,- and 0.5 points). so a C means 5 to 6 on IMDb not a 7. This movies is just awful for any scientific atheist. In a word if you are not an American then this movie was not made for you. It's a just the same old moralist science against Christians.. Don't do God job or you'll be in trouble. that kind of stupid crap they are so fond of in Texas and all catholics / religious crazy states. It's also a spin off of a small budget UK movies : in that movies 2 parents lost their children, a religious guys comes to help them : they should provide a bone to recreate the child, but the child must not be dead for more than 12 months. they proceed , but the child becomes devils and kill the mother : the reason was they lied to the "priest" as the child was dead for more than 12 months. Here it's about the same story but on a SF-scientist point of view. so really a waste of time.

I happened to stumble onto this movie while surfing channels so I missed the first 30 minutes or so. I was so sad and mad after this movie had ended as I could not believe such awful acting was acheivable by some good name actors. ...and the plot was so bland...(spoiler ahead) The nanny who confessed that she had tried to kill the evil kid but stopped half way into drowning him...what was that all about....why did the kid keep spitting...how and why did the bully kid die....the pathetic acting by the mother....I sat through the movie waiting for climactic ending only to walk away scratching my head. Probably the worst movie ever made.

This movie was bad on so many levels, but the main one for us was the fact that it contradicted itself. If the mother could not carry a baby to full term, as was mentioned early on, how was she able then to carry the "new" Adam to full term? And if there were no viable cells from Zachary, then how did Zachary's personality get into the Adam clone? And since she was pregnant, why would they have to move? They would just be having another kid, and so what if he looked just like the one that died? We all have seen siblings that look very much like they could be twins. And medically it just made us go HUH? throughout most of the movie. Maybe we missed something and someone can straighten us out on these 3 facts.