Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Though the title is misleading this is really another love story made for the young adult audience. Of course there is a reason for the title and that is that the setting is again another hidden world right under our noses, full of demons, vampires, werewolves, warlocks, and well... you name it (there are no zombies though, phew!)

MI: City of Bones is the first of a series of films based on a series of novels written by American writer, Cassandra Claire. It begins with Clary Fray (Lily Collins) a fifteen-year-old girl who ignores is the descendant of a demon-hunter race called the Shadowhunters. The day her powers manifest themselves renegade Shadowhunters attack Clary's home while she is out. These renegades want a precious object Clary's mother has, a magical cup of sorts but Clary's mother drinks a potion that induces her into a coma so the only other person that holds clues to the whereabouts of the cup is Clary though she herself does not remember anything about her real identity. In order to be protected Jace (Jamie Cambell Bower) helps her and takes her to the Institute, a hidden place in the heart of New York where she will remain until the cup is found. But the leader of the the renegade Shadowhunters knows about Clary. His name is Valentine (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), apparently his father and also the father of the man who saved her life and Clary is in love with, Jace, which makes them siblings.

I saw the movie and would say is not bad. There is nothing especially different, nothing that you cannot find in other movies. Still I liked what I saw and found it entertaining. True there is no the sexual tension of Twilight (it tries to but fails), but let's remember it is only the first installment.

Three stars out of five.