‘The Host’ concerns a carnivorous mutant in Seoul's Han River that attacks city folk and eventually kidnaps a little girl. The family thinks that she is dead; but when they get a phone call from a sewer by the river, they embark on a hunt to find their lost family member and kill the beast who took her.

When I first walked into the cinema, I was full of anticipation. Unfortunately, anticipation then took a complete U-turn, threw up along the way, and headed for the hills. The movie started off with a Korean scientist working for the US Army who was told to dispose of around 20 bottles of toxic chemicals down the drain.

Oh yes, the label certainly reads ‘Throw Me Away However You Want, Please’.

This careless and utterly unexplainable act gave birth to a carnivorous mutant! Ladies and gentlemen, we now know how to destroy the world. The story continues as the mutant terrorizes a park next to a lake by consuming numerous amounts of human beings. It then gallops off into the sea, grabbing one measly ordinary little girl with its tail. The father, played by Korean actor, Kang-ho Song, gave me the impression at the beginning that he was, well, let’s just say a bit of a ‘doozey’, if you know what I mean. All of a sudden, his elderly father, his sister, his drunk of a brother-in-law and himself turn into the X-Men as they sneak past military-trained guards and obtain machine guns in their quest to find the little girl, subsequently attempting to kill the monster.

Overall, I thought ‘The Host’ was a disaster. It was time-consuming, uninteresting, and a total ‘the trailer tells it all’ movie. In fact, the trailer was better than the whole show. There were parts of the movie where the camera just shows the lake for a long time with no background music, leaving the audience in awkward moments of silence. The story itself was utterly tedious as well. What a movie!

To end in the words of Simon Cowell, “Rubbish”.

Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ -- Not worth your time