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Having behaved on camera their entire lives, the Olsens know how to counterfeit emotion, though not, yet, how to convey it. Then again, De Niro and Streep would have trouble bringing to life an inert mix of farce and sentiment that ends up being both exploitative and bathetic--kiddie corn...
While mourning their recently deceased eight year old son, Jessie (Romijn-Stamos) and Paul Duncan (Greg Kinnear) are approached by Dr. Richard Wells (Robert De Niro) with just that proposition: create a genetically “identical” son through the Godsend project...
Robert De Niro has the film’s sole intriguing roll: the personification of mixing God and science. His character, Dr. Wells, tampers with ethics and morality through cloning, supposedly demonstrating the unpredictable and malevolent ends that can come from disregarding the laws of nature. Even though the movie doesn’t live up the character’s potential, De Niro’s monotonic intensity compliments the overriding tedious nature of the film...
...defend their honor, demanded star quality in its bad guys. Gotti and Gigante provided it. The suspicion is that both men bought dangerously into the Mafia movie myth. They wanted to be the wiseguys with lethal charm, the types who get immortalized onscreen by the "O Team"--Brando, De Niro, Pacino. And maybe become their own O team: Soprano. The FBI loves this, because a mobster's ego is the most fragile weapon in his arsenal. Set it off in public, and it can explode. Indeed, the mythologizing of the Mob by Hollywood and HBO could almost be a giant...
...forlorn, any or all of these in a flash, with just a flick of her head, a sigh, a glance. Movie charisma may not be easy to analyze, but it's a cinch to spot. And when Zhao shares a scene with anyone?with Jiang Wen, China's De Niro, or Hong Kong heartthrob Ekin Cheng, or bad boy Nicholas Tse?she's the one you watch...