Although the cloning dilemma has cooled down recently, Lion’s Gate Films has brought the controversy back in its science fiction thriller Godsend. The film is jam packed with an all-star cast, including Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear, and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos.
The movie starts out by showing the love Paul and Jessie Duncan (Kinnear and Romijn-Stamos) show for their son Adam. Adam was the love of their life, being the first and last born, since Jessie could no longer conceive a child. Then, disaster strikes and Adam is killed in a car accident. A “fertility specialist” named Robert Wells (De Niro) hears about the situation and tells the them that they could clone the child by taking a single cell from his dead body. They decide to go on with the procedure and eventually have the baby boy. At first everything goes as planned, but when he reaches the age at which he “previously died,” homicidal tendencies arise.
With such a great cast, it is hard to picture such a disappointing film, but that is exactly the case here. The film started off good with the whole cloning thing but switched gears to a horrible thriller flick. The problem with this is that the only thing remotely scary is the child himself! Don’ get me wrong, the acting was good, but the story line was just lame.
If you want to see a good thriller flick, don’t waste your time with Godsend.
