GODSEND
With
Robert
DeNiro,
Greg
Kinnear,
Rebecca
Romijn-Stamos
Directed
by
Hamm
The
Duncans
lose
their
8-year
old
son
(the
aptly
named)
Adam
in
a
freak
road
accident.
They're
devastated.
Hope
comes
in
the
shape
of
the
wife's
old
lecturer,
Dr.
Wells,
a
brilliant
medical
researcher
who
suggests
cloning,
a
second
chance
to
have
their
identical
son
back
again.
It
is
illegal,
but
they
eventually
look
past
the
moral
dilemmas
and
agree.
Everything
is
great
until
after
(the
new)
Adam's
8th
birthday.
He
has
horrible
nightmares
and
suffers
from
terrifying
flashbacks
of
a
life
he
never
lived.
With
the
parents
at
a
loss,
things
escalate,
becoming
deadly,
the
sweet
affable
boy
becoming
the
opposite.
While
it
all
starts
out
interestingly
enough,
the
narrative
seems
to
lose
steam
midway.
With
the
topical
subject
matter
that
can
keep
you
in
a
debate
for
much
longer
than
the
film's
running
time,
it
eventually
boils
down
to
a
basic
thriller
with
some
cheap
scares
that
at
least
sees
DeNiro
getting
a
little
closer
to
what
he's
good
at
-
not
lame
comedy.
The
title's
syllables
can
obviously
also
be
adjusted
to
infer
the
more
obvious
'God
Send'
of
a
child
returning
to
its
parents
and
'God's
End'
when
it
comes
to
dabbling
in
matters
some
believe
to
be
in
the
hands
of
the
higher
power.
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