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When 8-year old Adam dies in a tragic accident, his
parents get an opportunity. The opportunity to clone
Adam so that they will once again raise the exact
same child over again. After careful consideration
they decide to do it even though it's illegal and
immoral. Well, on new Adam's 8th birthday something
happens to Adam... something evil.
Godsend never attracted me when it played on theatres.
The poster is truly awful and it sounds like some
religious horror movie in the vein of Bless The Child.
Well, I was wrong, both in good ways and bad ways.
See, it is not a religious horror movie in the vein
of Bless The Child but nor is it a horror movie at
all. It's just a drama with a whole lot of annoyingly
loud sound effects and some kid with a hammer. It opens
up pretty promising but half an hour into the movie
I was already bored to the bones and it's over one hour
and forty minutes long. I can not believe people
actually sat through it all in the theatres.
I feel kind of sorry for the actors involved in this
film because these are all terrific and talented
actors. But it can't be easy getting in character
when the script is completely ludicrous. The few
scares that we actually get feel unoriginal and
desperate, like things popping out of closets and
a very drawn out shower curtain scene. It's such
a shame that Nick Hamm fails so completely with
directing this film since his previous movie, The
Hole, was absolutely astonishing. I just didn't
think that this had anything special to it at all.
The fact that big name actors seem to jump in on
any horror movie that involves ghosts these days is
ridiculous. Just because it involves ghosts doesn't
mean that it's going to be a good movie. Sure,
Godsend might have worked if there was a bigger
horror factor in it and had a shorter running time
but it didn't. It was just a big yawn. I had
absolutely no expectations at all for this movie
and still I thought it would be better than this.
This is one flick to be buried in time.
Are you kidding me?
It's an American ghost horror movie, of course the
score consists solely of depressing piano music.
Seriously, piano music almost always work in horror
movies but this just didn't do it for me.
Godsend is a ludicrous horror movie that feels
more like a drawn-out sci-fi drama than anything
else. No wonder this one flopped! If you want to
see some cheap scares and a loooong drama movie
this might be one for you otherwise, avoid!
Review By: AnthroFred
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