Earth has been taken over by aliens. They are known as Souls and are parasitic lifeform that takes over the human's body and now the Souls live a normal life on Earth. I would secribe the souls as a ball of light with a vague shape of some sort of sea urchin. Melanie Strider (Saoirse Ronan) several years after the invasion is found by Jared Howe (Max Irons). Two good looking teenagers find each and love, it's so heartwarming. That is until Melanie is captured and has a Soul placed in her body. The Soul is known as Wanderer and Melanie and Wanderer often yell at each in the apparence of a yound woman yelling at the voices in her head. Wanderer eventually goes in search of Mealinie's realitives and thus begins the love square of Jared, Melanie, Wanderer and Ian (Jake Abel), te boy who falls for The Soul. William Hurt plays Mealinie's uncle who belives that a person can still live in a body taken over by a soul and Diane Kruger plays a Seeker (Soul cop) who looks to hunt any surviving humans down and preventing our oh so dear love square, she's the square! The plot is more stupid then it is complicated.
A sci-fi movie in the in the vain of maintaining one's will with a hint of Invasion of The Body Snatchers could have been cool, having Andrew Niccol direct with Ronan, Hurt and Kruger lending their acting talents could have made this a good movie. Yet the source material based on a Stephenie Meyer book is so weak the film leaves no impression. The movie moves at a snail's pace and there are very few scenes of interest to break on the mundane fair. The romance is nothing beyond the "you live on the opposite side of town but we can fall in love anyway" cliche. The most redeeming qualities is the movie is that the music is hauntingly lovely and bad sci-fi is normally somewhat entertaining. Still The Host is so meaningless in execution that I have no need to remember it rather than actually want to block it from my brain.
*1/2 out of ****
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