![]() One of the Souls is less friendly than the others. ![]() This might make for a slightly creepy nightmare of possession, but it makes for a somewhat dull action flick, where the few deaths are more likely to be suicides by humans who’d rather drive a truck into a concrete barricade than share head space with a talking tequila worm. Despite their habit of crawling into people’s spinal columns, the Souls are a generally peaceful sort, preferring the kumbaya of colonization over killing. That’s the dilemma at the heart of “ The Host.” It tries, with less success, to gin up a little excitement around the fact that Melanie/Wanda has escaped from her alien overlords, but the stakes are too low to generate much heat. #THE HOST WRITER AND DIRECTOR MOVIE#Wanda and Melanie spend most of the movie bickering with each other over boys, which makes Ronan look like a crazy person. The alien - one of a race of creatures known as Souls, who have taken over most of humanity - has its own personality and name: Wanderer, later shortened to Wanda. But Melanie’s body has been taken over by a parasitic alien that resembles a fiber-optic caterpillar. Like the Edward-Bella-Jacob triangle that anchored the “Twilight” books and movies, “The Host” centers on a teenage girl (Saoirse Ronan) who’s torn between two lovers. ![]() It’s a mushy and unsuspenseful melodrama. This sci-fi love story has way more Harlequin Romance in its DNA than Harlan Ellison. Judging solely by the film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s 2008 novel “ The Host,” the “ Twilight” author’s commitment to the love triangle is inviolable. ![]()
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