Godsend started with a premise full of promise. After a terrible accident claims the life of 8-year old Adam (Cameron Bright), grieving parents, Paul and Jessie Duncan (Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) are presented with an offer they can't refuse. Brilliant geneticist Dr. Robert Wells (Robert DeNiro) offers to give them their son back - by cloning him.

All is right with the world until Adam 2's eighth birthday. Having outlived his clone, the boy starts having terrible nightmares, strange visitations and unexplained visions. This is where the real terror is supposed to begin. This is where the thriller is supposed to get thrilling. What is the source of Adam's night terrors? What is the sinister secret Dr. Wells is hiding? How come 16 years have passed and Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn Stamos still look so damn young? Well, I don't think writer Mark Bombeck and director Nick Hamm intended for people to ask that last question but for me it was the only really interesting question posed.

There were so many plot holes and implausibilities in Godsend that by the end, I really didn't care what happened. And it's good that I didn't because the ending was lame. It was a real cop-out. If I'd had an emotional investment in this movie, I would have felt robbed by that ending.

Decent performances were not nearly enough to save such a weak script and poorly directed film. A godsend is defined as something wonderful that happens unexpectedly. It definitely doesn't begin to describe my experience in this film.