By STEFANIE HILL

Staff Writer

Paul (Greg Kinnear) and Jessie Duncan (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) are a happily married couple and loving parents.

Then their lives are shattered when their 8-year-old son Adam (Cameron Bright) is killed in a traffic accident.

While making the funeral arrangements, the couple is approached by a former science professor of Jessie's, Dr. Richard Wells (Robert De Niro). Wells offers them a chance to get their son back through a genetic cloning technique.

The first eight years of the boy's life are about the same as the first time, but when Adam surpasses his original death age, things start to become a little weird.

Adam starts having night terrors of death and cognitions of people dying, and his behavior starts to change.

This movie starts off as a promising show for the money, but as it continues, things jump all around and the audience is lost amongst the confusing twists and turns of the storyline.

There are many moments of the movie where it seems to drag on and on.

The suspense begins to build because just maybe all this nonsense will all be tied together.

Either director Nick Hamm tried to create a movie that addresses the morality of cloning and let the audience come to their own conclusion at the end, or he could have been trying to make a science-gone-wrong horror movie. He failed either way.

If his idea of cutting a young boy's hair and adding make-up to make the child appear creepy is a way of creating fright amongst the audience, then he succeeded.

On top of the movie going nowhere, the acting seemed a little out of place. Kinnear and Romijn-Stamos did a wonderful job, but DeNiro seemed an odd choice. His acting ability did not stop the movie from flowing; the writing took care of that.

The film's inclusive and strange ending leaves the audience wondering if the deleted scenes on the DVD will hold all the unanswered questions they hold.