Based on the novel by Cassandra Clare, “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones” is another supernatural “Twilight”-esque film that seems to be taking over theater screens.
More similar to the recent novel-gone-film “Beautiful Creatures,” the female lead, Clary Fray, played by Lily Collins, discovers she was born a “demon hunter” and joins forces with others of her kind to retrieve her memory, find her mother, and prevent the villain, Valentine, played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers, from getting his hands on the mortal cup.
Collins also plays the center of a love triangle between her fellow demon hunter, Jace, played by Jamie Campbell Bower, and her lifelong best friend, Simon, played by Robert Sheehan.
With this complex plotline and plenty of battle scenes, the film’s fast pace easily keeps an audience’s attention.
If supernatural is your thing, the casting and action-packed nature of “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones” brings it a step above the typically expected.