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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The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Aside from a modestly effective twist near the end of the movie regarding the real identity of the child "Adam," this was a bland movie pretty much the whole way through. "Adam" applies to two characters, actually. The first being the child killed in a car accident near the beginning of the movie, and the second being his "replacement." After the first Adam's death, his parents are approached by a famous doctor (played by Robert De Niro in one of his more forgettable performances) who offers to use the knowledge that he's gained through laboratory experiments to clone Adam. The result is pretty much what you'd expect in this kind of movie. The new Adam seems to have memories of his previous life and seems from the beginning just a little "off." You realize that there's more going on here than meets the eye - the figure of Zachary (the boy in Adam's dreams) really doesn't seem to connect with the story, but to me the disconnect was so great that I settled for remaining confused rather than even trying to connect Zachary with anything. The movie tries to frighten with assorted chills, but never really succeeds in that regard. The twist (as I mentioned above) is modestly effective (I hadn't seen it coming) but everything that came before was so bland that I really didn't care by the time the twist came out. The ending was too open ended - there were at least two possibilities left open for continuing the story in a sequel that just seemed too wide open. Fortunately, the sequel never came. I'd have appreciated a bit more closure to this.This is a mediocre movie at best. I always give a bit of extra credit for a twist that catches me off guard, but it's still mediocre.
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.
GODSEND is a psychological thriller about a present and very interesting topic which is one of the greatest dilemmas of science today: clone a human being! Can it be done? It seems so; but is it morally correct? Is it ethically right? How far can science go about this issue? This movie, though, doesn't answer these questions scientifically but emotionally, through a story of psychological disturbance and paranoia. So, this movie, in spite of mentioning this subject, is not really a good basis to think or debate about this complex and "almost philosophical issue", because it ends being just a classical psychological thriller (which embraces all the classical clichés of the genre) in which the genetic topic is just used as plot's background. I don't know if this film was inspired in Gabrielle Beaumont 1980's GODSEND, but it really seems it was, and the genetic engineering topic seems just like a "plot's upgrade" of the 80's title! Like the director had thought: "Demonic possession is so overtaken, let's choose genetic engineering, cloning process and the remembrances of a passed life instead, to create suspense! It's so much modern and cooler!" Yes, that's right; I think the movie fails a bit trying to cross a scientific and "real" subject with the "classical borders" of the horror genre! On one hand it seems to pretend to follow the "real" genetic engineering knowledge, but on the other hand it crosses it to a plot which seems to be taken from a classic ghost story movie! So, overall, I think GODSEND is just an average film which hardly tried to be a genre's masterpiece, but failed!
Hide and Seek is another one of the crop of generic, bland, and vanilla "thriller" movies, and there's absolutely nothing about it that's worth watching, ever. In fact, if presented with the chance to watch Hide and Seek, one would be most advised to tear the accursed demon-creation out of the hands of the presenter, and burn it into nothing but the tiniest grains of dust. Hide and S---wait, I'm not talking about that movie anymore?It's really a crushing blow to the producers and directors of a film when you say that the film in question invoked no emotion at all. But it's true here; Godsend spends about an hour and forty minutes going through the motions and boring the hell out of you, employing every "thriller" cliché in the proverbial law book along the way, and then just...ending. There's nothing there, it leaves you empty and bored; neutral to the whole mess. That's almost worse than hating it - at least a film has accomplished something if it's invoked an emotion as strong as hatred. But no, Godsend is nothing, nay, nada - a mere blemish on the face of the genre. Not even Deniro can save this one. Godsend doesn't pass Go, it simply lies there, limp and lame, waiting for a better film to stomp it's ass flat.I use the word "thriller" so cautiously because this really isn't that much of a thriller. I don't know what to call it, but there's a whole blasted army of 'em now, all with the same stupid, convoluted plot lines and little kids running around acting like they're possessed by evil spirits and whatnot. I'll just stop now...why waste a good review on a half-baked movie? Avoid this one.