Hollywood seems to be trying to find the next Twilight, so now we get The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones. The plot follows this girl played by Lily Collins as she finds out that she is a shadow hunter, and must find a magic cup. You also have Jamie Campbell Bower playing the male lead, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers playing the bad guy. To be honest at first I was actually really enjoying the movie. There were some cool action scenes, and I was actually kind of liking the plot. There are vampires, werewolves, angels, demons, and a lot of other stuff here... but that is one of my problems with the movie. It lacks originality. For example, there is a place called "the institute" in this movie and it looks just like Hogwarts from Harry Potter.
I tried to ignore all of that, but then midway through the movie something happens. They decide to throw in a love triangle, just like Twilight, and the movie starts focusing on that. The story starts tu suffer here because the important plot points are rushed over thanks to increased focus on the romance. Demons, and werewolves are running around, and there is not really almost any explanation as to why all of this is happening. I also noticed some really big plot points that are left completely untouched. It´s as if the writers just forgot about them. The villain isn´t that great either, since I never really understood the point of him doing all he was doing. He is like Voldemort, but there is 0 build up to his character. They barely talk about him in the movie before he shows up.
I didn´t hate the movie, but there was alot of potential here that was wasted. What started out as an actually decent movie, started to become messy and generic in the second half. Hopefully if they make a sequel they will learn from their mistaked here and actually make a good movie next time around. I´m going to give The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones 2/5.
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