The Host (2013)

Director: Andrew Niccol
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons, Jake Abel, William Hurt, Chandler Canterbury, Diane Kruger
Certificate: 12
Genre: Romance, Sci Fi
Awards: None

The Host is about an alien race who live inside of humans and control them, therefore making the world a peaceful, lovely place to live in. However, there are a group of Humans left who do not like living with aliens and want to keep their free will. Melanie (Ronan) is one of these people. She is captured and forced to occupy her body with Wanderer, one of the aliens. The two come to an agreement after a while that the aliens aren't really that nice and decide to run away to Melanie's remaining family. Unfortunately most of the family don't like her anymore as she is seen only as one of the alien creatures. Wanderer then has to gain their trust in order to........ I don't think they really had a plan after that.

The Host is unintentionally funny with dialogue that feels stupid and completely unrealistic. It's a comic style premise that tries to take itself seriously. Some parts are incredibly rushed such as a part where Melanie disappears from Wanderer's thoughts. It's supposed to be going on for three days but I hadn't really noticed she was gone due to the fact that it was resolved so quickly in the film.

The film still has an interesting premise and it's by no means terrible. It does have a problem of showing who the audience should root for. The humans all seem to like hitting each other a lot while the only violent alien is acting as such because of the human consciousness inside her. The end also feels like a massive cop out with a solution pulled completely out of the blue.

***Okay