The Host



What if everything you love was taken from you in the blink of an eye? The Host is the next love story from the creator of the "Twilight Saga," worldwide bestselling author, Stephenie Meyer. When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan) will risk everything to protect the people she cares most about - Jared (Max Irons), Ian (Jake Abel), her brother Jamie (Chandler Canterbury) and her Uncle Jeb (William Hurt), proving that love can conquer all in a dangerous new world.

I had read this book and expected it to be very difficult to translate to the screen. I was pretty much right. They sped through the first third of the book that established the world that the movie was based in with a quickened narrative play by play. The biggest part of the story was that the "host" was still awake in the alien's new body and talked to her inside their shared head. The voiced over host communicating was lamely done and awkwardly over dramatic. The movie is still watchable but nowhere near as it could have been if they would have emphasized the sci-fi part of it instead of the fluffy lovey/dovey stuff.

I would lukewarmly recommend people checking this out. It's not a bad watch but you kind of are better off reading the book prior to seeing the movie for background knowledge. But the book is better and makes the movie somewhat disappointing.