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Godsend
Besides the legal issues surrounding the practice of human cloning, there are many ethical and moral issues connected to the application, which have caused the pursuit of a human clone to be banned in most nations. In the new film Godsend, the cold clinical facts of human cloning are presented in human terms when a loving young couple named Paul and Jessie Duncan (Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos), lose their only child, Adam (Cameron Bright), in a freak accident the day after his eighth birthday. Stricken with grief and unlikely to have another child due to complications from Adam’s birth, the couple have collapsed in upon themselves. A prominent doctor named Richard Wells (Robert De Niro) learns of the tragedy an offers to help. At first angry and skeptical over the offer, the Duncan’s soon accept the offer and sever all ties with their former life in order to complete the illegal cloning in secrecy. Everything seems to go as planned when Jessie delivers the baby boy who is the exact image of her lost son. Shortly after his eight birthday, however, the new Adam starts to have horrific dreams that are explained to be night terrors. As the weeks go by, Adam becomes more and more disturbed, and potentially dangerous leading Paul to question what they have done and to suspect that Dr. Wells is hiding something. What starts off as an interesting premise with a good cast quickly becomes stale, as the narrative of Godsend is so bad that people were laughing at scenes that were supposed to be tense and gripping. The resolution to the story never arrives and the explanations are so ham-fisted that they will have you rolling your eyes in disbelief. The plot is a jumbled mess filled with red herrings, stilted dialogue and non-sequiturs that one has to wonder how a film with such a good cast could have gone so wrong and made me wonder on more than one occasion how De Niro could let himself be attached to such a mess as it plays out at best like a bad TV movie of the week. The film was almost painful to sit through. Take my advice and avoid this lemon and Godsend is simply God Awful. Gareth Von Kallenbach 5/17/2004
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