In the Twilight
Film: Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Cast: Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower
Directed by: Harald Zwart
Duration: 2 hrs 10 mins
Rating: * 1 / 2
I must
confess that I had vaguely heard of the Mortal Instruments series of books and
having seen the film, I have absolutely no interest in knowing more. Authored
by Cassandra Clare it is like a cross between Percy Jackson and Twilight with a
stronger tilt towards the latter because it has a young girl as the lead
character. It is also being hailed as the New Twilight because that one girl
starts liking two different men.
The plot is
so tedious and boring that it doesn’t hold your interest for more than the
first ten minutes. And with every passing minute, you couldn’t care less about
any of the characters.
Clary (Lily
Collins) is a teenager who sees strange symbols, her mother knows the reason
but refuses to enlighten her about it. Clary witnesses a murder and it gets
murkier when she finds her home ransacked and her mother is missing. But then
comes a Shadow hunter (Jamie Campbell Bower) who specializes in ‘slaying
demons’ and you know that the film is going to go downhill from there because
there is more mumbo jumbo to come. The quest it seems is for the Mortal cup
that allows humans to become half angels. I would have been happy with a cup of
tea which was badly needed to digest all the info about vampires, werewolves,
demons and Shadow hunters. Oh yes and you can use the Mortal cup to open a
portal which the villain does to and gets all the demons to help him.
The special
effects which are not great anyway, cant be of much use when the story is so
insufferable. Apparently, a sequel, City of Ashes is being planned. I hope they abort the
idea before it is too late.
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