The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

2013

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 13% · 127 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 138569 138.6K

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Plot summary

In New York City, Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who protect humanity from evil forces. After her mother disappears, Clary joins forces with a group of Shadowhunters and enters Downworld, an alternate realm filled with demons, vampires, and a host of other creatures. Clary and her companions must find and protect an ancient cup that holds the key to her mother's future.


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November 17, 2013 at 02:15 PM

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Kevin Durand as Pangborn
Lena Headey as Jocelyn
Lily Collins as Clary
Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Valentine
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by siderite 6 / 10

Harry Potter meets Twilight via Season of the Witch

I wanted to enjoy this movie, I really did. However a very annoying lead character coupled with a below average direction made it really difficult for me.

The story is the classical teen who discovers she has special powers. They probably are trying all of these movies with female leads as to attract the female audience to the productive teen fantasy movie segment. Yet, of course, the chick needs at least two guys fawning over her and protecting her until she finds out how awesome she really is. That's really lame. This year is the year of witches, all movies and series have to have one, this is one of those films.

Anyway, back to the story. Lena Headey is the mother of a freak again, married with a weirdo again, widowed again. The casting holes actors fall in these days are really specific, aren't they? The plot proceeds like a mix of Harry Potter finding he is a wizard and the Twilight love triangle ... err... angle. There is even a medieval castle in the middle of New York (that, of course, people cannot see).

Bad people are after the main character, of course, but one of them is Kevin Durand in a really tiny role. Give that guy a break, man, he is too cool for these evil henchman roles!

Since I watched Twilight and I watched Harry Potter and I can safely say I wasn't terribly impressed, but I enjoyed myself, it would have been expected to at least enjoy this film as well, but I couldn't. The love scenes are ridiculous, the fight scenes don't make sense, the magical scenes either (check out the one when they battle demons, she freezes them up, and then they try to move around them rather than just kill them like they would do just a few seconds later when the demons unfreeze) and some of the roles in the movie are really confusing, like the one of the great warlock that seems to know all, appear out of nowhere when you need him and everybody trusts him.

The acting wasn't bad, but the direction and individual scenes were clumsy and sometimes outright bad. I have no choice but to rate it a failure.

Reviewed by HorusEye 6 / 10

All the same old but with a new haircut.

I enjoyed this film although I'm in no ways its target audience. It's a teen film, primarily for chicks, but I'm having a cold and my wife isn't home, so perhaps I'm a little more sentimental than usual.

It starts off like any other coming of age yarn. Clary, our protagonist, is littering the house with drawings of her womb, a clear sign that she's on the verge of Growing Up. Luckily, she runs into the right people first, and they teach her what she needs to know about tattoos and black outfits with buckled boots, and all that other stuff that makes you cool and adult. A romance story is fired up right away as well, between Clary and this guy Jonathan with the cool sticky hair and silky British voice, and the two seem a little naive in that they don't pick up on each other's signals, but I guess that takes some life experience.

The story is very simple, utilizing all the expected elements of the genre, but does manage to keep them fairly fresh, and the plot has sufficient twists to stay interesting, although most of them have only minor impact on later turns of events. At some points it meanders a little and several scenes could have been cut out without affecting the plot at all. It would have suited the film to be a little bit shorter.

The characters are all exceptionally pretty people, and most of them have no character flaws either, yet it didn't become annoying like it very easily does in such cases. Clary is sympathetic enough for one to care about her, and it helps keeping you involved in the story despite the often predictable setup.

All in all, it had good entertainment value, and I think I only zoned out briefly a couple of times. Worth a watch, just don't expect anything from the Deep End of the pool.

Reviewed by g-bodyl 9 / 10

I Liked It......

Now I am a sucker for YA novels/fantasy films and I actually read the first three books of the series, but it has been so long since I have read them. But naturally, I would have to check out this film, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. Despite the lack of originality, I found the film to be engaging. Everything has been done before, but I couldn't resist watching Clary fight demons and fall on love with the main demon hunter, Jace. The visuals are strong and I liked the look of the monsters. There is lots of action. The screenplay may be the weakest link as some of the dialogue was cringe-worthy, on the scale of the Twilight films. But I'm a very forgiving person it seems.

Harald Zwart's film is about a girl named Clary whose world is turned upside down when she finds out a world of demons and vampires exist and there are a group of Shadowhunters that exist to kill them. When she finds out her mother may not seem to be all she is, she is put in a tough spot when she retains the knowledge of the Mortal Cup, which an evil man named St. Valentine is looking for.

The acting was actually decent. Lily Collins makes for a better, more emotional heroine than Kristen Stewart did in the Twilight Series. Speaking of which, Jamie Campbell Bower was pretty good as Jace. Jared Harris made for an excellent Hodge, who is the "Dumbledore" of the Institute. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers was okay as Valentine, although he may have over-acted just a little bit.

Overall, the City of Bones is a fine book-to-film translation, although I cannot remember how much material was left out. The lack of originality did not disturb me all that much but I shall point out I saw comparisons to Harry Potter, Twilight, Ghostbusters, and so on. But the film was fun and entertaining and it worked as a fantasy film. Too bad the next time we see Clary, it will be on the television screen. But I did like this adaptation, perhaps a bit more than I would like. I rate this film 9/10.

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