The Host Reviews
We Got This Covered
The Host lacks quality acting and any hint of a decent story. The result is a sci-fi film with no science and a romantic film with no romance. In other words, it's the dullest 2 hours imaginable.
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| Original Score: 2/10
ScreenRant
The Host is a passable film that could entertain a slim segment of viewers that were turned-off by Twilight - while fully catering to the Twihard crowd.
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| Original Score: 2/5
CraveOnline
The Host lacks the adolescent foolishness that made Twilight even remotely relatable, and it isn't even bad enough to be fun.
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| Original Score: 5/10
The List
Teen sitcom-level dialogue, wooden acting, snogging-in-the-rain flashbacks and ludicrously chrome-plated alien racecars.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Hollywood.com
The Host is like its central character: a vacant husk, completely bewildered inside and out, with the faint sound of a good idea trying to scream its way through.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Slant Magazine
Its title, very graciously, doesn't end with a "Part 1," but The Host sure has enough plot points and ideas to fill two installments.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Quickflix
Clunky, dramatically inert, ideologically repugnant, and just a plain old bore, The Host may be the worst thing anyone involved has ever been affiliated with. In some instances, that may also prove true for the audience.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Flicks.co.nz
Come back Bella and Edward - all is forgiven.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Movie Nation
'Twilight' of the Body Snatchers, without much urgency or sexual heat.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Niccol crafts some arresting imagery, though the slow pacing and droning new age score makes everything feel like an endless Ambien commercial.
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| Original Score: C+
Birmingham Mail
Just like her Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer's 2008 novel The Host becomes another feature in which people are standing around and brooding ( ... ) Proof that it's not easy to make thoughts seem riveting when little is happening.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top Critic"The Host" is top-heavy with profound, sonorous conversations, all tending to sound like farewells.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The movie's structure is awkward. There's no real narrative thrust.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Beliefnet
Melanie had two voices in her head. I only had one, but it was clearly telling me that this movie is a mess.
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| Original Score: C-
During the dull stretches of The Host -- and, sadly, there are many of them -- you may find yourself rewriting the movie as a French farce.
The film may as well be titled "Stephenie Meyer's Waiting Around."
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| Original Score: 1/4
SFX Magazine
It's a reasonably intriguing premise, but the alien invasion soon takes a back seat to the kind of tiresome teen angst where crucial plot points hinge on a kiss.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
ScreenCrush
It stinks. . .and yet. . .I'm glad I saw 'The Host,' and more so than just as an anthropological study
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| Original Score: 3/10
Times-Picayune
There's much grave talk of souls in this sci-fi romance. Ironic, then, that it ends up being such a soulless and trifling affair.
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| Original Score: 2/5
MediaMikes
One of the side effects of having a soul take over your body is the appearance of beautiful blue eyes, shining brighter than a star. Which means unless you're Yancy Butler or Jeff Fahey you have to hide your eyes lest you be discovered.Or wear sunglasses!
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
