This tedious teen re-tooling of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers is perhaps notable for creating the dopiest and least interesting on-screen love rectangle in memory. Niccol excels at creating yet another cold, emotionless future without conflict, the problem being that it also makes for rather turgid viewing. The solution to the novel's internal conversations between alien 'soul' and human 'host' does work but it becomes tiresome quite quickly. Saoirse Ronan disappoints here, and her two bland A&F human suitors lack the emotional humanity that is surely the whole point of them being there. At least the Twilight movies occasionally acknowledged the ridiculousness of Stephenie Meyer's source material, unlike this dull and humourless adaptation.
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