The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Movie Blurb by Shale August 24, 2013 This was my second movie to see this weekend. Unlike The World's End that was loved by 92% of the aggregate critics on Rottentomatoes, this movie was only liked by 13%. However, this movie was liked by me and 77% of audiences. I'm always up for a Goth adolescent fantasy tale with vampires, werewolves, demons and unrequited teen love triangles. The movie is based on a series of books by author Cassandra Clare with the same target audience as the Twilight series. This along with The Host which also has a young woman protagonist is probably hoped to fill the void left by Bella, Jacob and Edward. The setting is Brooklyn, where Clary Fray (Lily Collins) lives with her mother Jocelyn (Lena Headey). When doodling, Clary is drawing strange symbols that her mother and her live in BF Luke (Aiden Turner) seem to recognize and are concerned. Jocelyn & Clary at Home When Clary and her longtime friend Simon Lewis (Robert Sheehan) go out, Clary finds she is seeing things that others can't see, including a person getting murdered in an underground dance club. She later sees the murderer, Jace Wayland (Jamie Campbell Bower), even tho Simon doesn't see him. Clary & Jace Turns out that Jace is a shadowhunter who kills demons in an ongoing battle that is mostly unseen by mortals on this plane. The reason Clary can see him and others on that plane is because she and her mother are more than just mortals themselves. When demons come for Clary's mother and trash their apartment, Jace shows up to dispatch one of them and rescue Clary. Tho her mother disappears and the demons capture Luke. Luke Being "Questioned" by Demons Clary is slowly unlocking her occult gifts and is taken in by Jace and the other shadowhunters, siblings Alec (Kevin Zegers) and Isabelle (Jemima West) Lightwood. Clary, Simon and the Shadowhunters Her mother and Luke were targeted because she stole a magical Mortal Cup to prevent her ex, Valentine Morgenstern (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) from gaining absolute power. Thus the rest of the movie entails a quest to find the Mortal Cup and Clary's mother. This is a complicated story and may be a bit hard to follow but it runs well, with lots of action where you can usually tell the bad guys from the good. (Some double-crossing going on) It is more modern in its cultural realism, where the fact that one guy might be in love with another is taken matter-of-factly. Adolescents today can relate to that. This movie gets back to the traditional vampires who burn up in sunlight, but they still seem to be arch enemies of werewolves. Someone in the know, while answering Simon's questions about all these underworld figures mentions that you don't need to kill zombies because they don't exist. Glad they cleared that up - I have always hated the whole concept of zombie movies (Except Warm Bodies).
Dear i too like this movie, Really a awesome movie and i watched it 10 to 15 time from the date when it was released .
