Nick Hamm's shocker, just about the worst ever film in the Scary, Stary Child genre, concerns a process by which clones of living - or, in this case, dead - humans can be created that differ from the original subjects in only a few, possibly crucial, respects.
It is surely not fanciful to suggest that such a procedure may have been performed some years ago on the popular actor Robert De Niro and that the star of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Deer Hunter may be currently chained to the wall of some dungeon while a superficially similar figure stalks the earth ready to act alongside Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy and - it can only be a matter of time, surely - David Spade.
Godsend begins with "Robert De Niro", in the mad scientist role that usually went to Lionel Atwell in horror flicks of the 1940s, approaching bereaved parents Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos at the funeral of their son Adam (the name is, of course, moronically significant) and offering to knock up a new version of the unfortunate tyke. They agree and, before long, young Adam II is prowling crazily about the house staring scarily at anything that catches his eye.
Rebecca is prepared to accept the various weird things that transpire, but Greg begins to suspect that "De Niro" has some sort of sinister agenda.
Maybe, we fervently hope, he is breeding an army of super-powered mutants with which to take over the planet. Sadly, nothing so exciting (or so plausible) is in store.
Total rubbish.
