Review – The Host

The creature in this Korean production is the best movie monster I’ve seen in years. Every time the thing is onscreen I wanted to give this four stars. Unfortunately, the rest of the picture is a bit less consistent. After a schoolgirl is kidnapped by a beast that suddenly emerges from the local river, the kid’s ne’er-do-well father and his eccentric family defy the authorities and risk their lives to try to find her. The family is a little too goofy for my taste, and sometimes the plot twists don’t make a lot of sense even from an okay-this-is-supposed-to-be-goofy perspective. But oh, that monster. Worth seeing