Fresh and Exciting

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Blistering performances.

I like this horror movie. The monster they made for this movie looks realistic enough.

Okay maybe I went a little bit too far with the title, but this movie tries to hard on smashing several genres together.From time to time is funny, then corky, then emotional, then action, then thriller and so on.Don't get me wrong I really appreciate small indie films, but this is no indie film, they had a budget to do something better. They should had focused on doing just one genre, but they tried too hard on doing like a Hollywood block buster.It amazes me that Kang-ho Song participated on this film, is like when Anthony Hopkins did that role on Transformers. Kang-ho Song had several roles on some of the best South-Korean thrillers. Here is doing a clumsy, goofy, comical relief main protagonist. The monster CGI is really bad. The acting is a little bit weird some scenes are too overreacted, some scenes don't make sense at all. Some none-sense dialogues just for the sake of making time.This is not one of those "so bad that is good" movies, this is just bad. I'm sorry South-Korea please stick to thrillers.

I LOVE monster movies, and I've been looking for this movie for a while, but I couldn't find it because of Stephanie Meyer's movie with the same name. Finally, Netflix added it. I really wanted to like it, but despite the other reviews, I've found the FX bad. The animation was amazing, but there was something odd and the monster seemed out of place, I think it was the texture. Maybe if it had some scales instead of polliwog skin (I guess that is what they wanted to achieve?) it would have looked better.Anyway, that wouldn't have matter if the movie wasn't boring. I just didn't feel anything (except from the scene with the pictures). The tense moments didn't feel tense, or maybe it is just my love for monsters. And some parts were too slow. But I had already watched half of it so I had to finish.However since there are people here that loved it so much, I suggest you to watch it, maybe you are one of them and pass a good time.

After "Jaws," monster/large predator movies grew into a cheesy pop culture phenomenon, particularly by the late '90s. "The Host," Korean filmmaker Joon-ho Bong's 2006 riff on the genre that once launched the blockbuster, is a rare return to form for creature features, and maybe the closest any movie has come to evoking Steven Spielberg's style in the 21st century.Most monster movies made in the last 20 years feature a fearsome juggernaut of a beast that carefully picks off each member of the cast one by one throughout the film. "The Host" disposes of that formula, opting for family-driven narrative, though many R-rated monster movie hallmarks remain. In response to the B-movie tendencies of most monster flicks, modern filmmakers have gone with a more reserved approach, like in Ridley Scott's "Alien," keeping the creature hidden or obscured for most of the film, usually until the climax. Bong steamrolls us with the mutant fish-lizard-beast the first chance he gets. The high- intensity attack sequence is easily a highlight of the film, juggling fun and entertaining notes with terrifying moments that put us in the shoes of the people running for their lives.In the aftermath of that attack, young Park Hyun-seo (Ah-sung ko) is essentially kidnapped by the monster, though her lazy father, Park Gang-Doo (Kang-ho Song), aunt (Doona Bae), uncle and grandfather all believe her dead. When they find out she's alive, they plan to break free from a government quarantine site (contact with the monster is believed to result in the contraction of a deadly virus) and save her.To do so, Gang-Doo and his family must push back on a clearly misguided emergency responses system that's been put in place. There's a lot of background context to the film's events with the disease element and the world governments' handling of the situation, none of which have a direct bearing on the plot, but do lightly color the way we view and think about the film. The opening prologue also chillingly implies that the monster is a result of irresponsible human attitudes toward the environment. You could argue Bong and co-writers Won-jun Ha and Chul-hyun Baek are suggesting we have only ourselves to blame for the Park family's suffering.In the end, however, it becomes clear that Bong's priority in "The Host" is entertainment with a payoff. He wants to deliver the thrills of a monster movie, just in his own way. He has a brilliant way of twisting sequences in ways that defy expectation. You think you know exactly what's coming, and it does indeed come, but not in the way – or at the time – you expect it to. Both Bong's direction and the script do an excellent job of recognizing Hollywood conventions and altering them in such a way that feels novel and exciting, but still ultimately deliver the satisfying payoffs that genre fans prefer. Bong isn't Spielberg, but he's someone who is bringing his own take to a concept born and popularized in the West, that has gone through iterations good and bad. He's sorted through those iterations and pulled out what interests him as an auteur, and he is able to punctuate the film's most memorable moments with his distinctive style and vision. In today's special effects era, "The Host" might seem like nothing special on the surface, but the family-centric bones of the narrative make it a compelling watch that both speaks to a very familiar sub-genre and imbues it with unique vision.~Steven CThanks for reading! Visit Movie Muse Reviews for more