Review of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) by Richard D — 08 Jun 2014
Okay ... so I am very clearly not the intended audience for this film. It's based on a popular series of YA books, and it certainly plays like that ... our heroine finds out that she is "special", and her brand of "special" brings a hunky young man along with it.
Even though I'm probably never going to be terribly fond of this film, it would have been nice if it wasn't a clearly awful book adaptation. There are several places in the film where you can tell that the film is a condensed version of a longer book, and each time we get several minutes of exposition thrown at us in long, terrible character monologues.
After the first couple of such scenes, you pretty much take it for granted that you're not going to really bother following this plot too closely. When Jonathan Rhys Meyers finally appears as the main villain after 3/4 of the film has elapsed, we're faced with a villain who has performed no actions and whose only motivations were described in a couple of these exposition heavy dialogue tracts.
He's trying to get an object ... but it's not clear exactly why, and by this point, who cares anyway?
This review of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) was written by Richard D on 08 Jun 2014.
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones has generally received mixed reviews.
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