
Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O'Connor's well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York City hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn, autistic daughter at her home. Maggie takes the baby in, and she becomes the daughter she never had. Six years later Jenna suddenly re-appears with a mysterious new husband, Eric, and abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no l... (Full plot summary below)
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Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O'Connor's well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York City hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn, autistic daughter at her home. Maggie takes the baby in, and she becomes the daughter she never had. Six years later Jenna suddenly re-appears with a mysterious new husband, Eric, and abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, F.B.I. Agent John Travis, an expert in ritual homicide and occult-related crime, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children. The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply "special". She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries to control, and her abduction sparks a clash between the soldiers of good and evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one small child and the love she inspires in those she touches.
Leave your thoughts about Bless the Child.
| Philadelphia City PaperCynthia FuchsTo call Bless the Child ridiculous doesn't begin to cover it. |
| Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)Jeffrey WesthoffAny movie where the villain is a combination of Danny Bonaduce and L. Ron Hubbard has at least has one thing going for it. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumDirector Chuck Russell also made the infinitely better comedy The Mask. After this, he may want to wear a mask. |
| Matinee MagazineChuck RudolphAs ponderous and pointless as a supernatural thriller can possibly get. |
| E! OnlineE! StaffLet's hope Smits didn't quit the 15th Precinct for this crap. |
| Akron Beacon JournalGeorge ThomasHackneyed script, shoddy direction, flat acting and laughable, cheesy special effects. |
| Screen It!Jim JudyThe film starts off with a mediocre premise, and then quickly and progressively becomes more ludicrous as it proceeds. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordMostly derivative junk, but its few novel touches are worth noting. |
| Film.comGemma FilesIt's all just cheap metaphor and stupid spectacle, with technology standing (rather inadequately) in for any sort of genuine inquiry into the fascinating mysteries and difficulties of actual faith. |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob VauxWatching it stumble about reminds one how difficult this sort of material can be, and how Satan needs more than some bad CGIs to be truly scary. |