Review of Godsend (2004) by Wesley B — 08 Sep 2004

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[/u][size=4][color=white]Godsend[/color][/size].

[/b]In the tradition of "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Others," this taut and gripping thriller tells the story of devoted parents who are willing to do anything to resurrect their beloved son who was tragically killed in a freak accident. "Godsend" stars Academy Award winner Robert De Niro, Academy-Award nominee Gren Kinner, and Rebevva Romijn-Stamos. The film is directed by Nick Hamm, best known for his succes with the higly stylized British film "The Hole". Following the death of their eight year old son on his birthday, Jessie (Romijn-Stamos) and Paul (Kinnear) are befriended by a doctor on the forefront of genetic research (DeNiro) at the height of their mourning. He leads the couple ina desperate attempt to reserve the rules of nature and clone their son. The experiment is successful and under Richard's watchful eye, Adam grows into a healthy and happy young boy, until his 8th birthday. As time goes by, the Duncan's gradually start to see a small, subtle differences between the new Adam and they Adam they lost. At the time of the new Adam's eighth birthday, the changes in character are more pronounced. Adam grows distant and fearful as a palpable sense of menace settles within the young boy. This Adam begins to suffer from night terros and frightening flashbacks as a sinister personality begins to emerge. Paul and Jessis cannot escape from the fact that this Adam is different. Terror settles on the couple as they try to come to terms with just what they have done, or what has been done to them.

Before I even saw this movie my feelings toward it jumped around, first I heard Robert De Niro and Greg Kinnear was in it and it was about cloning got be excited to see it. Then as the movie was released it did pretty bad in the box office and got slammed with bad reviews, so I decided to rent it and my feelings for it started to lessen, and as people I knew watched it and told me they didn't like it they got even more lessened. Now, that I've watched it I realized why it got what it got. It started off promising and at about the 20-30 minute marker, it started to go down hill. The scenes just seemed to jump around, not explaining stuff, but attempting to is the sad part. What tried to be a Horror/Thriller got the Borror effect. It was pretty predictable at times, I will admit there was a few parts that got me twisted. If it wasn't for the acting, the acting saved it from getting a worse review then this movie would get like a 1. It's still not getting a great review a 4 I believe serves this movie quite well. I wonder why De Niro picked this movie, he was good in the movie though, Kinnear did well to. It wasn't their top performances but it was good. All I can say is Godsend this movie to hell. This is a movie to catch on TV when you really have nothing else to do.

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[/u][color=white]Hawaii Five-O getting a film.[/color].

[/b]George Nolfi is set to write the script, he wrote the the script to Ocean's Twelve which hits theaters in December. With its lush Oahu setting, popular theme song and signature lead detective character Steve McGarret played by Jack Lord. Nolfi has begun writing the script and filming is expected to start next Spring in Oahu for with an early Summer 2006 release. Nolfi is said to be sticking close to the orginal series plot.

[b][color=white]The Dukes of Hazzards have been found.[/color].

[/b]Jackasses Johnny Knoxville and American Pie's Seann William Scott have just been cast as Luke and Bo Duke, from the CBS series The Dukes of Hazzard. They still have not found a person for Daisy Duke but Jessica Simpson seems to be the one the top one. For Boss Hogg they have they're eyes on Burt Reynolds. [b].

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[color=white]Medical Investigation[/color].

[/u][color=white]Episode 1:[/color] [/b]Pilot.

[b][color=white]Aired:[/color][/b] September 9th, 2004.

[b][color=white]Director:[/color][/b] Marc Buckland.

[b][color=white]Writer:[/color][/b] Jason Horwitch.

[b][color=white]Cast:[/color][/b] Anna Belknap (Eva Rossi), Christopher Gorham (Dr. Miles McCabe), Meal McDonough (Dr. Stephen Connor), Kelli Williams (Dr. Natalie Durant), Troy Winbush (Frank Powell).

[b][color=white]Guest Stars:[/color][/b] Clare Carey (Jess Bowman), Chris Nelly (Unknown), Micheal Nouri (Wes Douglas), Rich Hutchman (Novack), Glenn Plummer (Cooly), Karis Campbell (Kelly Leslie).

[b][color=white]Synopsis:[/color][/b] When people are suffering from a mysterious and deadly illness, which turns them blue, the team must work to put the pieces together to find the source of this potentially deadly epidemic.

[b][color=white]Trivia:[/color].

-[/b]This is the series Premire and this episode is also titled "You're Not Alone".

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