The film received largely negative reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 10% based on 115 reviews, with the site's consensus stating: "David Goyer's Unborn is a tame genre effort with cheap thrills and scares that border on silliness."[6] Metacritic gave the film a 30 out of 100, based on reviews from 16 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[7]