Review of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) by Tina L — 17 Feb 2014
I rented it with the full expectation that it's a bad movie. Still it's painful to watch. I've watched my share of YA novel adaptation such as Hunger Games, Twilight, Harry Potter, Narnia and even some of the lesser known ones.
Still Mortal Instruments is painful to watch. It jams so many sub-plots into it with little explanation and it has a lot of loopholes and inconsistencies. But the fatal flaw is in the casting of the male lead.
Twilight is successful as a franchise largely thanks to many fangirls swooning over Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lutner. Jamie Campbell looks like a underage drug addict with really bad hair and even worse attitude.
And the grand finale fight is ludicrous, almost to the level of the a Supernatural episode. The only thing watchable is Jonathan Rhys Meyer but he has very little screen time and his plot is not developed properly.
He ends up a crazy villain with no real purpose.
This review of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) was written by Tina L on 17 Feb 2014.
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones has generally received mixed reviews.
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