Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

SnoopyStyle Paul (Greg Kinnear) and Jessie Duncan (Rebecca Romijn) are married celebrating their son Adam (Cameron Bright)'s 8th birthday. Adam is killed hit by a truck. Jessie's old professor Dr. Richard Wells (Robert De Niro) of The Godsend Institute offers to clone their son. After the new Adam reaches eight, he starts having nightmarish visions of another boy named Zachary.Even if I buy the premise, this thriller has no tension. The start is so low energy. The movie may as well start later in the story or compress the introduction more. It turns into some sort of ghost story but the investigation isn't that compelling. This is a second-tier horror movie without any thrills or frights. The solid actors are left with nothing good.

sddavis63 Aside from a modestly effective twist near the end of the movie regarding the real identity of the child "Adam," this was a bland movie pretty much the whole way through. "Adam" applies to two characters, actually. The first being the child killed in a car accident near the beginning of the movie, and the second being his "replacement." After the first Adam's death, his parents are approached by a famous doctor (played by Robert De Niro in one of his more forgettable performances) who offers to use the knowledge that he's gained through laboratory experiments to clone Adam. The result is pretty much what you'd expect in this kind of movie. The new Adam seems to have memories of his previous life and seems from the beginning just a little "off." You realize that there's more going on here than meets the eye - the figure of Zachary (the boy in Adam's dreams) really doesn't seem to connect with the story, but to me the disconnect was so great that I settled for remaining confused rather than even trying to connect Zachary with anything. The movie tries to frighten with assorted chills, but never really succeeds in that regard. The twist (as I mentioned above) is modestly effective (I hadn't seen it coming) but everything that came before was so bland that I really didn't care by the time the twist came out. The ending was too open ended - there were at least two possibilities left open for continuing the story in a sequel that just seemed too wide open. Fortunately, the sequel never came. I'd have appreciated a bit more closure to this.This is a mediocre movie at best. I always give a bit of extra credit for a twist that catches me off guard, but it's still mediocre.

The_Movie_Cat The post-millennial "I'll take any role" version of Robert De Niro continues in this, an increasingly nonsensical "thriller".Almost like two films stuck together, what begins as a decently acted but cheaply shot tale of cloning emerges into a silly, highly derivative "jump and scare" runaround. By the time we manage to trudge to the second half of the film the thesping has become so bad that even De Niro is being acted off the screen by a candle. Slow and lacking in genuine innovation or originality, this only serves to remind us that the actor who appeared in Taxi Driver and Raging Bull now seemingly has a large mortgage to pay off.

Lawrence Griffin Hide and Seek is another one of the crop of generic, bland, and vanilla "thriller" movies, and there's absolutely nothing about it that's worth watching, ever. In fact, if presented with the chance to watch Hide and Seek, one would be most advised to tear the accursed demon-creation out of the hands of the presenter, and burn it into nothing but the tiniest grains of dust. Hide and S---wait, I'm not talking about that movie anymore?It's really a crushing blow to the producers and directors of a film when you say that the film in question invoked no emotion at all. But it's true here; Godsend spends about an hour and forty minutes going through the motions and boring the hell out of you, employing every "thriller" cliché in the proverbial law book along the way, and then just...ending. There's nothing there, it leaves you empty and bored; neutral to the whole mess. That's almost worse than hating it - at least a film has accomplished something if it's invoked an emotion as strong as hatred. But no, Godsend is nothing, nay, nada - a mere blemish on the face of the genre. Not even Deniro can save this one. Godsend doesn't pass Go, it simply lies there, limp and lame, waiting for a better film to stomp it's ass flat.I use the word "thriller" so cautiously because this really isn't that much of a thriller. I don't know what to call it, but there's a whole blasted army of 'em now, all with the same stupid, convoluted plot lines and little kids running around acting like they're possessed by evil spirits and whatnot. I'll just stop now...why waste a good review on a half-baked movie? Avoid this one.