The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones is a bad film, a flawed a film and a film that’s beyond logic. The film takes the overly played plot of angels and demons, good vs. bad and delivers a disaster of a movie.
Lily Collins stars as Clary, a 16 year old who discovers that her mother (Lena Headey) is a Shadowhunter. At the same time she also realizes that she can see an invisible world, where Shadow Hunters, demons, werewolves and warlocks together operate, invisible to humans, or ‘mundanes’.
MI gives you glimpses of cheap imitations of classics like Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings. As the film progresses one feels extremely grateful to Harald Zwart, the director of film, for not having made it a 3D film.
The only thing that really that’ll catch your attention is that the three significant characters of the film-Clary(Lily Collins), Jocelyn(Lena Headey) and Robert Sheehan(Simon) sport thick eyebrows (which I believe was just a co-incidence).
There’s a particular scene in the film where Clary and Jace are led into a dungeon by grim-reaper look-alikes. The ‘Bhoot Bungla’ in Essel world World, looked far more scarier than this dungeon.
The second half seemed promising, but just when you start taking the film seriously you realize you’ve been tricked. Drama is overdone as they show young love blooming between two Shadow Hunters-Clary and Jace. The awfully cliched dialogue of `you know I told you I’d never seen an angel?` between them makes it only worse.
The last few scenes are like a mockery of the film itself.
Kosha Srivastava
September 11, 2013 at 7:24 pm
You really need to read the books. Says this die hard Harry Potter fan. The film could be bad, which it wasn’t , but you definitely didn’t get the plot. And seriously, dungeon? Grim reaper look-alike? You mean The Silent City which is made from the bones of shadowhunters who sacrificed themselves to save humans? From bones so that the place is safe? And, Silent Brothers who heal Shadowhunters? And your attention was focused on their eyebrows. Wow. An eye for an eye. Sarcasm for your sarcasm.
natasha chinna
April 12, 2015 at 2:58 pm
hahahaha that is funny and yes i agree the movie is crazy .. i cant crazier for whom , the once who have read the book or the one who have no idea of the story ?
but yeah the book is really awesome so dont get dishearten by the movie