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Thursday 30 January 2014

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES [2013]

Director Harald Zwart adapts City Of Bones for the screen, the first book in Cassandra Clare's youth oriented fantasy novels series, The Mortal Instruments.
It's a messy execution that is cluttered up with too much dead end background lore and a collection of way too many characters that serve next to nothing to the story.  As opposed to the overly mopy Twilight series, TMI tries to add in some cheeky one-liners to lighten the mood and although some of them are pretty funny they are in all the wrong spots.  There's simply just too much pointlessly tossed in to the simple story that is pretty much just an excuse to dress up pretty young people in skimpy Goth clothing.

2 tarot cards out of 5

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