Reviews for this film from our members:
- Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: The Host has so many things wrong with it that it soon becomes too hard to catalogue them all.
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Excerpt: squanders any quality from its concept to deliver a vacuous, unoriginal and painfully dull film
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The sight of Ronan speaking to herself as the alien as voice overs account for Melanie is titter inducing even before the standard Meyer supernatural love triangle is introduced.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: In short, The Host is just stilly.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: It’s bewildering how sci-fi aficionado Andrew Niccol (“Gattaca,” “The Truman Show,” could mastermind such a parasitic mess.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Stephenie Meyer has found a whole new way for teen girls to be conflicted about sex…
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Brent McKnight @ Beyond Hollywood
- Excerpt: The Host is a cool idea dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, infused with zero subtlety, and totally squandered on overly serious melodrama.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- [New – 9/12] | Frank Ochieng @ Yahoo! Voices Movies
- Excerpt: In the syrupy teen body-switching sci-fi fantasy The Host, Meyer once again delivers the sugary surrealism that made her aforementioned Twilight sagas the gospel according to teen disillusionment. Labored, tedious, mushy and pandering, Niccol’s one-note narrative is unintentionally hilarious in its dopey rhythms of monotonous moodiness and despair.
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: The Host is akin to the grade-Z schlock you might catch on Mystery Science Theater 3000; no amount of technical proficiency – which this film certainly has, in most respects, with its metallic sparkling-new sheen and teal & orange palette – can overcome lousy sci-fi writing.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: A great opening is drowned by the next two hours of slow, boring torture.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: A great opening is drowned by the next two hours of slow, boring torture.
- Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: An extremely silly story made worse by Andrew Niccol’s ponderous, self-important adaptation.
- Jean-François Vandeuren @ Panorama-cinema.com [French]
