Fresh
Despite its fissures in tone and technique, Godspeed occasionally plays like a sturdy indie outpost of revenge cinema.
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Godspeed
Glory is the fear.
2009 · 1h 39m · N/A
Comedy, Drama, Family, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Robert Saitzyk
Overview
Joseph McKelheer and Cory Knauf (The Hamiltons, The Violent Kind) star in this intense thriller set in the lingering light of the Alaskan midnight sun. Charlie Shepard, a modern day faith healer with a small flock of believers, is stunned when his family is brutally murdered. Six months later a young, mysterious girl (Courtney Halverson) appears and becomes the link to his family's killing and the murderers themselves, ultimately leading to violent consequences for all.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
50%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Opens tentatively but ends confidently with a climax that's bloody enough to jolt but not enough to sicken -- a trick that too many directors have yet to master.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Rotten
The location -- Sarah Palin's beautiful old stomping ground of Wasilla, Alaska -- is the main attraction in Robert Saitzyk's talky and overwrought melodrama.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Rotten
Earnest to a fault, this tale of vengeance and retribution strives for Faulknerian pathos, but never rises above amateur theatrics.
Andrew Grant, Time Out New York
Rotten
Saitzyk's sappy pontifications on loss, redemption, and zealotry don't register as headily as they're meant to, and the spirituality invoked feels about as sincere as the Christian who only attends Christmas mass.
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice
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