Whittling down the almost 700 page novel The Host into the two hour movie The Host was never going to be easy-but Andrew Niccol seems to have done a pretty good job of hitting the high points. The Host movie is what The Host novel might have been if an Editor had the balls to tell Stephanie Meyers to rein it in a little. I liked The Host, the story of a race of benevolent overloads who travel the stars looking for populated planets to conquer-and they found ours a few years back. The bulk of the human race has…