The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)

One of my all time favorites.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

This film is for those who grew up missing Buffy, Twilight, and Star Wars. For you older guys out there, make sure you take a bag with you as I discovered my theater doesn't take kindly to hurling chunks. Like Twilight, the film is designed for the female tween audience. Clary (Lily Collins) rhymes with Carrie (Fisher) and reminds us of clairvoyance, is the main teen character. She can see things her friend Simon (Robert Sheehan) can not, especially that symbol that looks like the head of a deranged bunny.One day Clary comes home to find mom (Lena Headey) left a mess and a demonic attack dog. Her life now consists of hanging out with a goth half angelic being (Jamie Campbell Bower), trying to find out who she is, rediscovering her powers, killing the beings Kristen Stewart would rather procreate with, and something about a cup. There is no Bella in this film, just an Isabelle. Could we please get off the Bella Donna word play.The film is a culmination of pop culture designed to appeal to young female fans. All others beware of nausea. Keep an eye on Clary's hair part as it magically changes aka Deb in "Napoleon Dynamite."On a side note: Both Lily Collins (Mirror, Mirror) and Kristen Stewart (Snow White and the Huntsman) both played the role of Snow White. Lily was clearly the superior actress by being able to read a line and use facial expressions.Parental Guide: No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. Awkward blend of religion and occult.

When her mother disappears, Clary Fray learns that she descends from a line of warriors who protect our world from demons. She joins forces with others like her and heads into a dangerous alternate New York called the Shadow World. I never really understood the hate for this film cause i really had alot of fun while watching it in Theaters but also some years later again and i was very much entertained by it's very good visuals and it's very much interesting story and i would definitely recommend you to give it a fair share of a shot. (10/10)

OK just wow werewolves some vampire things that come at night, things "special" people can see,an academy about those things No i'm your father moments.The movie feels like what if twilight,Persona 3, Harry Potter and some parts from Star Wars had a child. They were some good fight scenes. the Romance was terrible especially at the end. The concept was good. and the list goes on when i will find something good i will find something bad

This review might contain spoilers.With very few new original ideas or reimagining that are still trapped in the creative mind, filmmakers sometimes must turn to preexisting properties. The main source of this being books. Who doesn't want to see a real personified version of their favorite book character? However, how far can this go? Basically, fans should be prepared to see scenes and details cut for their beloved series. But how much can this hurt or help a movie adaptation? City of Bones is the first book of a six book series about a girl named Clary Fray who finds out she's not your 'average girl' and part of secret demon-hunting race known as the Shadowhunters. After her mother is kidnapped, Clary must work alongside accomplish Shadowhunter Jace Wayland to not only find her mother, but a recently lost artifact from his clan called the Mortal Cup. This book is basically the construction of the magical world Cassandra Clare has created and background info needed for this series and is considered by many fans of the series to be one of their least favorite because of this and its slow pace. Due to this and the movie only being two hours long, unlike many other fantasy movies, much is lost in the constructing this magical world, characters' background, and their motivations.I know movies differ from their source material, sometimes, but The Mortal Instruments City of Bones movie takes this to a whole another level. In both the book and movie, a character is supposed to betray the team to the antagonist. However, in the book, he attacks the main character after his curse is lifted, part of the book's mythos that was left out of the movie, before she saved by other character. This mythos plays a big part in the series. It showed how harsh and unforgiving the central government of the Shadowhunters were. They put a curse on this character where he/she was forbidden to leave the home base of the Shadowhunters in New York City area. The movie, however, makes it where he allows demons to penetrate the institute by opening the ceiling with a lever which he breaks off, hides only a few feet away so he can return to redeem himself before the end of the movie. In the book series, he does return but not until a later book and he never really gets a redeeming moment. The Mortal Instruments City of Bones is also a bad movie, because it loses many of the themes from the book. Like many of the more recent books in the Young Adult genre, this book questioned certain political views. Going back to lost information, we never even get a mention of the governing of the Shadowhunter clan. The movie doesn't even show how Shadowhunters dislike mundanes, or normal humans like you and me, or the Downworlders, basically the magical beings of this worlds. Other than Shadowhunters, that basically everyone they are supposed to be protecting. Are Shadowhunters really as good as they think they are? The book shows us both the light side and dark side of things. Is our main character really a good person? What about her mother? Is Jace a product of our antagonist's mind or is own person? Speaking of our antagonist.Lastly, The Mortal Instruments movie utterly changing of the antagonist and the spoiler that went along with that. In the book, one of the scarier thing about the antagonist is the way he could manipulate people with just his words, twisting their wills, meeting his own desires even if it was benefiting the other person or not. The movie portrays him like a villain you would find in a children's TV show. This leads me to the spoiler that the antagonist and our good friend mentioned above reveal in the movie. I will not give it away here, but the movie flat out gives away a spoiler for the book series that isn't supposed to be answer till book three. In the books, the audience is carried along with the suspense with the characters, not knowing the truth till they know. This not only changed the dynamic of the rest of the series if they had continued with some other minor changes to the ending of the movie, but the dynamic of a very complex character. I don't believe that his backstory was mention or, if so, was simpled down. All this and much more is why I would strongly recommend reading the book over watching the movie.