Member review

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is a film adaptation of the book by the same name wrote by Cassandra Clare (which I read and highly enjoyed.) The film stars actors Lily Collins (Clary Fray), Jamie Campell Bower (Jace Wayland), Kevin Zegers (Alec Lightwood) and Aidan Turner (Lucian/Luke Graymark), Robert Sheehan (Simon Lewis). The film was directed by Harald Zwart and was released on August 23, 2013 in the U.K. You can either see this film online or ask your film club teacher if you can see it in your upcoming film watching session. In a distance city, a teenaged girl called Clary Fray suddenly learns that she has blood of Shadowhunters. – Human and angel guardians who save the world from demons and sometimes downworlders. After Clary’s mother gets kidnapped, Clary meets with a group of Shadowhunters with the rude and sassy Jace and starts investigating the Downworld, a different world with demons, vampires, warlocks and werewolves. Clary, the other shadowhunters ad Simon her human friend must find the mortal cup that holds the secrets to finding and waking up her mother. Let’s me just say that the film isn’t terrible but it did feel extremely rushed, you didn’t have a moment to take a breath. I read the book and everything is much more stretched out and gives you more time to process it all, explaining everything that is going on much better. I loved the casting for the film seeing as the new TV show based of the books casting looks atrocious. I just feel like they should have split the film into two, seeing as the book is extremely long too. They couldn’t have made the film any longer thought seeing as it is already two hours long. Maybe just don’t add in stuff that isn’t in the book and focus on the great parts from the book. I would say to see it if you are fans of the Moral Instruments book but otherwise don’t bother. You would get easily confused from the amount of stuff happening at once. The special effects are amazing and look realist for the type of film. Just remember if you do watch this film that it won’t live up to the hype of the books. The books are far better and I hope they do a better job in the TV series if they cast gets a bit better. Over all the film could use a bit more work and intense concentration from watchers at all times.