The Mortal Instruments : City Of Bones (2013) 5/10

Starring : Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan , Kevin Zegers, Lena Headey, Kevin Durand, Aidan Turner, Jemima West, Godfrey Gao, CCH Pounder, Jared Harris
Director : Harald Zwart
Running Time : 130 mins

When Clary Fray (Collins) starts seeing strange runes everywhere she goes, she soon discovers that she is descended from a line of half-angel demon killers called Shadowhunters. Joining forces with a group of these half-angels, Clary finds herself launched into a magical world of good versus evil.

This had potential, and this feels like a world that is filled with possibilities, but the lazy execution made this a troubling and confusing movie. Nothing is really explained (exposition is sometimes necessary) and the powers of the characters are ridiculously convenient. Things happen to characters that are later largely ignored, and the relationships between the characters have little or no relation to what they have been through together, some of them being spelled out to us and others just randomly occurring as if from nowhere. I haven’t read the books, but I’d like to just to give Cassandra Clare the benefit of the doubt. Plus, carving runes into people’s arms? Talk about promoting self-harm!!

You’ll like this if you liked : Eclipse