Incarnate

Incarnate

Starring Aaron Eckhart, Carice van Houten, David Mazouz, Catalina Sandino Moreno

Directed by Brad Peyton

The Story:
Dr. Seth Ember (Aaron Eckhart) is a man with a gift: he can go into the minds of people and help draw out demons possessing them.  However, he doesn't consider them demons, but rather as parasitic entities that he evicts from the person - he doesn't do exorcists because he doesn't believe in religion.

He is on the hunt for an elusive demon known as Maggie, who he holds responsible for the deaths of his wife and child and leaving him in a wheelchair.  When eleven-year-old Cameron (David Mazouz) comes under demonic control, the Vatican - led by Camilla (Catalina Sandino Moreno) - wants Dr. Ember to get the demon out.  He doesn't agree at first, but they reveal to him that the demon is Maggie, so he takes the case and goes into the child's mind to evict the entity and get his final revenge.

The Synopsis:
I feel like with every word I write about this film, I'm giving it too much credit.  There is absolutely nothing noteworthy about this film, as it's a complete mess from start to finish, and something I was surprised to see Aaron Eckhart star in.  He is much better than this complete crap.

Basically all you have to do to understand (can you really understand this film?  The answer is no) this film is to take "A Nightmare on Elm Street," "Fallen," "Insidious," "The Exorcist" and "Inception" and throw them all into a blender and drink the results, plus some vomit.  That'll leave the same bitter taste in your mouth as seeing this film in the first place.

I would like to be professional and really delve into why I think this is terrible, but I could write a novel about why it's terrible, and can't even think of three words to say why it's good.  I mean, the story is that he can go into peoples' minds (which isn't fully explained how or why, just at a certain age he said he could do it), and demons hate that so they go out to kill people who can do that, except for Eckhart's character who they leave alive to tease him or something.  So Eckhart goes into different peoples' minds to find the demon, hoping each leap will be the leap home...oh wait, got that mixed with something else...

Seriously, it's such a mess it's not even funny.  Like not even worthy a direct-to-DVD treatment.  It's something that shouldn't even exist.  Awful, awful, awful.

The Summary:
Awful, awful, awful, awful, awful...

The Score: D- (Can't give it a full F, because...well...I mean Aaron Eckhart isn't TOO bad).