The Host

"The Host is born from the mother of all things Twilight, Stephenie Meyer, which is the next best - or worst - thing, depending on your point of view (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"

 

"There's something about novelist Stephenie Meyer that induces formerly interesting directors to suddenly make films that are slow, silly and soporific" 

"Meyer is undeniably canny at using genre to address the age-old struggles of adolescence, but at just over two hours, even 'The Host's' air of guilty pleasure eventually subsides" 

"'The Host' is top-heavy with profound, sonorous conversations, all tending to sound like farewells. The movie is so consistently pitched at the same note, indeed, that the structure robs it of possibilities for dramatic tension (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)" 

"Dopey, derivative and dull, "The Host" is a brazen combination of unoriginal science-fiction themes, young-adult pandering and bottom-line calculation"