The highly anticipated film adaptation of “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones” hit theaters last week.
Lily Collins (The Blind Side) plays Clary Fray, a seemingly normal teenage girl living in New York City. Secrets about her family soon surface after she witnesses a murder at Pandemonium Club.
Clary thinks Jace Wayland, played by Jamie Campbell Bower (Twilight Saga) is a murderer, but soon she finds out what he actually killed, a demon.
She comes from a long line of Shadowhunters, warriors that are half human and half angel able to fight and kill shape-shifting demons. Clary can see cryptic symbols everywhere she goes, unlike her “mundane” friend Simon. Mundanes are anyone that does not have Shadowhunter blood in their ancestry.
When her mother disappears it is her memories that will help find her, along with the mortal cup.
Clary joins Jace and his Shadowhunter friends to bring down the villain, Valentine. With werewolves, warlocks and vampires this is no simple trek.
Valentine is set to rid the world of downworlders and to do so he needs the same chalice.
The computer generated imagery used in the movie makes all the demons and creatures look very realistic. This action adventure film even brings on the scare with the different types of demons the group encounters.
A romance erupts between girl-next-door Clary and narcissistic Jace. Jace is the epitome of a bad boy decked out in leather, with his tattoos known as “runes” and a motorcycle.
Every teen fiction movie must end with a fight scene, right? Well you won’t be disappointed here, unless you’ve read the books.
The movie is the picture image of the book. Avid readers of Cassandra Clare’s mega-hit series will enjoy the small things in the movie that truly bring the book to the screen.
It isn’t until the adrenaline in your body starts pumping when things go a bit awry.
Details from other books in the series creep in the final 20 minutes. So you may be clenching onto your theater chair thinking, are they really doing this?
No. What they are trying to do is get you on the edge of your seat, but you were there all along. They did a great job of making sure there will be a sequel. But, come on, these films always have a sequel.
And to our surprise “The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes” is already in production.
The film plans to release next year and will pick up right where it left off. The gang will fight to bring down Valentine, because what villain is defeated in the first installment?
I predict that there will be at least five films in the franchise, with a possibility of creating prequels from Clare’s “The Infernal Devices” series.
