Rating of
2/4
"Godsend" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 07/06/12
Grieving parents are offered the chance to "replace" their lost child by a genius geneticist, but once he reaches the age of his death, he is haunted by horrifying visions. A rather hokey supernatural chiller that is bolstered by the presence of Robert DeNiro, who is hardly stretched by his character, but suddenly bursts into life when confronted by Greg Kinnear towards the end of the film. This extremely promising scene comes to nothing though, as he then just disappears and the film just, well, stops. Some of the scenes involving the boy are stylishly done in a kind of Omen-meets-The Dead Zone kind of way, but the film just peters out to a whimper at the end. A shame, because the build up was actually quite good.
