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Plagued by nightmares and visitations from tortured ghosts, Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman) turns to a spiritual adviser named Sendak (Gary Oldman) for help. They discover a family curse that dates back to Nazi Germany: an evil spirit that can take over the body of anyone and is getting stronger with each possession, as it tries to gain full entrance to this world.
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The Kabbalah. Hot college students. An abandoned mental institution. Gary Oldman. Jogging. Twins. Nazi scientists. A suicidal mother. A lost blue mitten.
What do these things have in common? They're all pieces in the convoluted mythology of "The Unborn."
Best as one can tell, writer-director David S. Goyer's film is a sort of Jewish version of "The Exorcist," which is a vaguely novel concept. Catholics are usually the ones who have all the fun purging demons. But Goyer, who wrote the "Blade" series and co-wrote "The Dark Knight," makes things laughably more complicated than they needed to be.
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