The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Apologies for late review. I watched this movie last week but I have been so busy with my job hunting. Plus I got sick for few days and my brain didn't work properly. So here we go for the late review of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.

1. If you are Twilight fan who loves whole crazy love-in-first-sight, you will like this movie. watch it. But, if you don't like Twilight and doesn't like this crazy childish love-in-first-sight, you will hate this movie. don't watch it. Personally, it was okay because (1) I don't mind this childish movie. I only paid $8.50 for this movie ticket. (2) My friend who hates Twilight was sitting next to me and she doesn't eat popcorn but through out this movie, she was growling and ate popcorn. It was just hilarious to look at her reaction so my general movie experience for this movie was okay. (3) The main character guy's accent was H.O.T. I didn't find him hot but his voice and his accent was dead gorgeous. I personally love British accent and he had one. It was so good to listen to his hot accent.

2. This movie is a combination of other movies. Remake, if you prefer. This movie had a bit of Harry Potter, Twilight, High School Musical and other Fantasy movies. Harry Potter in terms of how there is one earth but different world (Harry Potter, it's wizard world and Muggles. For this, they call normal people as Mundane). Then this movie has magic. Then demons and angels (shadow hunter). Twilight in terms of how two characters, a girl and a boy fell in love at first sight. Then they have this tension and scenes where it looks like they are going to kiss (like when Clary falls on top of Jace, that was like "wow.. really? so obvious!") and when they go to roof top and the water sprays the garden, they get wet so they laugh and they kiss (this scene reminded me of High School Musical 3). 

3. The movie in overall is CHILDISH. I'm not talking about childish but okay to watch, I'm talking about, if you are in a workplace or even in tertiary education, you will not like this movie childish. It was SO childish and SO obvious. Nothing new and surprising came up. Instead, when you think "is this going to happen?", it happened. For example, I thought "they are gonna kiss", they kissed. When Simon came out from Clary's bedroom, I thought "they are gonna fight", they fought. Then when Blackwell came out and talks to Clary, I was like "don't tell me they are father and daughter", they were father and daughter. When Alaric told Clary a story of how she had brother, I was like "don't tell me it's Jace", it was Jace. Because all of these obvious and childish stuff in this movie, I couldn't concentrate the story plot of this movie.

4. This movie has everything abnormal. Shadow Hunter tattoos their body as if this was a normal thing to do. They have this symbol all over their body. I didn't read this book so I have no idea if that means anything but as an audience who didn't read the book, it just looked as if they just tattoo their body for fun. Funny thing is that the movie actually shows them tattooing. Imagine what young audiences will think of tattoo after this movie.Yes, many people these days do tattoo. But, it's not something that disappears. It lasts for the rest of your life. So personally, I think you need to be really really be careful when you are doing tattoo because you can't just erase it if you don't like it anymore. It's going to stay on your body for the rest of your life. This movie has made the tattoo look so easy, it could potentially deliver the wrong message to younger audiences. Second, this movie has gay concept included. I have never seen a fantasy movie that includes gay concept as this is still a very sensitive issue. Then they have brother and sister fall in love. Well, they didn't know when they fall in love. But, it was sick when Jace says "I don't believe it", "I don't care". I mean, they are brother and sister, how can he not care about loving his sister?

5. Movie was fast paced so people who didn't read the book like me, this movie was like "what the heck just happened". The whole idea of Shadow hunter and demon and mortal cup was confusing enough, I had to deal with Jace and Clary being brother and sister and the movie didn't confirm whether it was true or just Blackwell confusing them. I had to confirm this with my friend who read the entire book. Also, I understand that the movie should not be over 2 hours but it was so funny how Clary and Jace kissed and Clary just invites him to her room and when Simon came out from her room, Jace suddenly gets angry and jealous. This whole thing happened in one scene and I was like you guys just kissed and now you guys are fighting over someone who happens to be in her bedroom. How is this Clary's fault and why is Jace getting angry with this thing? He knew Simon likes Clary. He saw how they were close right before Clary meets him on the roof. It was so stupid and so silly and so childish and so fast! Was the book like this? or was it just in the movie?

6. Of course, there was some product placement. I can't remember it now because it has been over a week. But I remember me thinking "oh, product placement". I personally don't want to watch it again in cinema (I don't mind watching it again for free though, just because I like Jace's voice and accent) so I'm not going to tell you how many and what brands. But there was definitely more than two product placement !!

Overall, 1.5/5. It was 1.5 because I loved Jace's voice and his British accent. Also, I like Clary. She is so pretty ! but that's it. seriously, that's it. Don't waste your money.