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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: A mix of A.I., The Bad Seed and a dozen other films, Godsend isn't god-awful, but it's not all that clever either. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: An unsatisfying, overly restrained bore. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's hard to be frightened when you're snickering. Read more
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: Downright scary in some places, Godsend might be more potent if it wasn't watered down by religious trope predictability. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: As in most bad thrillers, the number of pointless shocks increases in direct proportion to the drama's decreasing vitality, like defibrilator paddles jolting a dying man. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Awful movie. Read more
Bob Townsend, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A weak psychological thriller. Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: [Relies] on cheap shocks instead of honestly exploring how the parents of a dead child might feel about raising his clone. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Has the sensitivity of a cactus, the ingenuity of a square wheel, and the integrity of a CEO. Read more
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: Godsend reveals an almost depraved indifference to logic, but it hides its craziness with the aplomb of the expensively medicated. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: By the end, we're laughing at dialogue that's supposed to be serious and clucking at behavior that makes no sense. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Godsend certainly leaves future filmmakers room to improve the next copy. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: We're just seeing the umpteenth recycled shocker about a mystical dark child with an aura of disaster. Read more
Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: Though not an out-and-out bad movie, Godsend is an unforgivably bland one, a thriller without thrills, an exercise in missed opportunities and wasted potential. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Sometimes, Godsend manages to scare us in spite of itself; more often, it's just laughable. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: This is one film that should be stamped, 'Return to sender.' Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Next to The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, this is the worst movie De Niro has ever been in. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Sometimes interesting but always predictable. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: You'd be better off downloading the trailer: a much more convincing piece of storytelling. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A stylish variation on the age old science-as-boogeyman thriller. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: I'm still waiting for a movie that offers a real story about cloning; this isn't it. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A bad thriller. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Godsend goes nowhere and takes the whole cast with it. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: A pea-brained hodgepodge of The Omen (1976), The Sixth Sense (1999), and about 30 Grade-Z Bela Lugosi mad-scientist movies. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Save for a few asides about 'moral trespassing' and a cliche or two about 'opening Pandora's Box,' the script isn't interested in that thorny debate. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The scariest thing about Nick Hamm's sci-fi thriller Godsend isn't the skulduggery about the origins of a devil child but the terrifying prospect that Robert De Niro has been replaced by an inferior clone. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: A poor man's Shining, with some lame Sixth Sense and Omen elements thrown in. Read more
Joe Leydon, Variety: After a modestly promising set-up, pic devolves into a stale rehash of cliches and conventions left over from dozens of demon-child thrillers. Read more
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: Working from the assumption that nobody remembers grade school science, let alone the last 30 years of horror movies, Nick Hamm's genre mishmash clumsily recasts The Omen as a cautionary tale featuring a human incarnation of Dolly the sheep. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: A silly if sporadically jolting thriller. Read more