Review – Godsend

A couple (Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn) lose their eight-year-old son to an auto accident. Enter Robert DeNiro as a well-intentioned but creepy doctor who offers to clone the kid. But when Offspring 2.0 reaches the age where the original was killed, strange things start to happen. So far so good. Unfortunately, at this point the film-makers decided to start tossing in a bunch of pointless complications. The worst of it is the turn-of-the-screw explanation for everything that’s happening, a resolution that proves to be both predictable and unsatisfying. Despite the story, this might have been a slightly better picture if the young actor playing the kid had a bit more range. He plays innocent and evil with the same deadpan smirk, and that makes it tough to build up much of an emotional response to the character one way or another. Mildly amusing