The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2013
	Director: Harald Zwart (The Pink Panther 2)
	Actors: Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan (the Red Riding trilogy), Lena Headey (300, Dredd), Kevin Durand (Real Steel),Jared Harris (Sherlock Holmes 2)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Fantasy
	Conditions of visioning: 09,06,2014, HD VOD, Home cinema
Synopsis: Clary (Collins) start to have visions. Her mother knows something. She will discover an underworld known to only a few.
Review: This movie is exactly as I have read about it: another Fantasy story for teenagers (following the success of the Twilight saga) in which a regular girl (to which the average viewer can easily identify) discovers that she has powers and meets a group of other young and beautiful teenagers that fight against evil in a world unknown to the other humans. In addition, the characters are very poorly constructed and the love triangle is ridiculous, a feeling not helped by pitiful dialogs ('If you wanted me to remove my shirt you should just have asked me'). The few older actors in the movie make it bearable to a viewer my age, as well as some nice special effects (the flock of crows melting into a demon monster, nice). The morale (bad guys becoming good and vice-versa) and the ending are questionable. To think that a sequel (City of Ashes) is in preparation...
Rating: 3 /10