2013 · action · adventure · sci-fi
The Host
Directed by Andrew Niccol2h 6m2013
A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond with her host and sets out to aid other free humans.
Our read: The Host (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · adventure · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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