The Host
The Host
PG-13 | 29 March 2013 (USA)
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A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond with her host and sets out to aid other free humans.

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NekoHomey

Purely Joyful Movie!

MamaGravity

good back-story, and good acting

Mischa Redfern

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

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Winifred

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

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eberkerbatur

I think there is a really nice story to look at, but the movie was a bit heavy, so they would have tried to shoot an alien movie at a lower cost than other films so much that Saoirse Ronan was really good at playing in short I have to say the last thing wanda died in the end it would have been better if i did not like the last part

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zasde-31406

" The Earth is at Peace. There is no Hunger. There is no Violence. The environment is healed. Honesty, courtesy, and kindness are practised by all. Our World is perfect. Only it is no longer our world. " It is a Fantasy movie of course, but I would like to live in That World.

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cinemajesty

Movie Review: "The Host" (2013)After his lasting takes on sophisticated motion picture entertainment with "Gattaca" (1997) and "Lord of War" (2005), author director Andrew Niccol continues to share intriguing approaches of engaging another accomplished science-fiction thriller, yet missing the target to come full circle with his recent projects in the decade of 2010s with "In Time" (2011) being as unfulfilled as "The Host" (2013) due to misgiven young male character casting decision with actors Jake Abel and Max Irons hardly prevailing in tension-building chemistries with actress Saorise Ronan, who performs picture-carrying and scenes-owning in a split-characters' role of Melanie and Wanda; a character invaded by alienated body-snatchers-reminding metaphysic spirits, which inhabit human bodies as peace-, balance- and stability-loving entities, which leads to a science-fiction drama, accompanied by single undecisive, no connection-building action scenes, where Melanie's nemesis actress Diane Kruger performs as the alien character "The Seeker", when Director Andrew Niccol and initial writer Stephanie Meyer on her same-titled 2008-published novel completely fall-out to present one striking stake-raising scene in an too slow-received editorial by editor Thomas J. Nordberg of unless professionally captured footage by cinematographer Roberto Schaefer.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

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Artur Machado

Designated as an action/adventure/romance/sci-fi/thriller film it does not have any of that. It's a mix of everything that in the end equates to none of it at all. Never in my life have I seen such an illogical story in a movie so slow and boring and without action. Probably the teenage girls will be able to find some adventure/romance here because the main protagonist is going to flirt with two guys at the same time throughout the movie in "Twilight" style, which is not surprising if we take into account that this movie is also based on a work of that same author. This is just a really cheap bad romance (the focus of the movie) while aliens try to annihilate the last humans (scenario, and very secondary). The performances are also not convincing at all. Completely unbelievable.

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