(rated PG13, 102 mins)
If you lost the person closest to you, what would you do if you had one chance to bring them back? Rebecca Romijn-Stamos is the mom who says to husband Greg Kinnear, “I don’t want another child, I want Adam” when they lose their son (Cameron Bright) to a tragic accident. And so they visit Robert DeNiro, a mad scientist with cloning ability. The movie focuses on today’s real life genetic technology and what the political and religious issues might be, when choices are given that perhaps one should not take. This slow moving thriller starts out enticing and then fizzles midway attempting to get all “Sixth Sense” on us, and delivering the outcome too late – translation: lots of seat squirming midway through. Kinnear and Stamos give heartbreaking performances in what would be a parent’s worse nightmare. The child actor is reminiscent of Macaulay Culkin’s performance in “The Good Son” and DeNiro is pure evil, at his reassuring, twisted best.
