Saturday, 11 January 2014

A host of bad things

The Host (2013)

Directed by Andrew Niccol this film based on the novel of the same name stars Saoirse Ronan, Jake Abel, Max Irons, William Hurt and Diane Kruger. Earth has been invaded by parasitic aliens and few humans remain free.

There are some interesting concepts in this film but none of them are ever explored and in general the characters seem poorly thought out. The story relies on the usual ideas of humans being different or better than all races out there which is pretty arrogant and not an especially interesting way to take the story anyway. I have always been a big fan of Andrew Niccol but what he is doing here is beyond me as this is way below the level of his other work.


2/5

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