The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)

Sadly Over-hyped

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This movie is just like Dragon Ball Evolution But worse

Okay taboo to review this film as a fan but honestly don't hate it. From a visual point of view anyway. And yes I've read the books and yes I've watched the TV show (total waste of time. Complete trash). This film falls into a franchise pit of money. They wanted to sell this to all audiences and appeal to people who weren't fans and in doing so f#*ked up the content. The film itself is visually stunning. The cinematography. The costumes. The props. The settings. They are all what you picture when you read the books and picture the Shadowhunter world. The aesthetics are spot on. And my god the score of this film is amazing. But the acting leaves something to be desired mainly down to the scriptwriter who could write nothing but cheese. Pacing was clunky and they tried to cram too much into 2 hours. It just wasn't well thought out. Had they cared about the content or characters this film could have been amazing. It had so much potential but instead it's another franchise that fell through the cracks of the money grabbing film industry

Clary is apparently an ordinary girl with a normal life, but when she starts drawing a strange sign and sees things and people ordinary humans cannot, she is introduced by Jace to a supernatural world in which werewolves and demons coexist. As a shadowhunter, Jace is in charge with maintaining peace by fighting against demons, and thus, he helps Clary find her missing mother which holds deep secrets regarding her origins, childhood and special gifts.This movie features a great fictional world, full of monsters and magic places in which Clary and her friends must fight for survival and a for magical object. It looks great and the CGI is truly awesome but that is about it. Except some thrilling fights, there is nothing more to amaze you. I had the impression I was watching a soap opera much more times than I thought it was an action film. Too much romance, or things related to it, look there's father, look there isn't father and such nonsense instead of focusing on the interesting part of the plot. In addition, almost everything related to Clary in the action part seems too superficial and not very well thought, when I was expecting a bit more implication from her. Instead, she focuses of figuring out which boy she "loves" more, thus deriving from the main idea which could have provided a lot more than her sentimental interests.It could have been a great movie if it had done what this movie is all about. It had potential, it had a good idea, it had a great SF world but as always, they didn't know what to do with them. Big shame

Can't really add anything not mentioned before.But must say it's funny how most good reviews are made by profiles who ONLY ever commented on this movie...friends/family members much? :P Shame IMDb is corrupt with ratings based in this way any1 with enough fake account's/friends can rate up even worse of production's... Overall utter junk compiled from little of every series/movie u can think of from Dracula to Buffy the vampire slayer.Sad attempt at scrounging some cash from fans...Would recommend to watch only to producer's/director's who wanna learn how NOT to make movie.