Thursday 29 August 2013

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

2013 Film






  • 6.9/10-IMDb



    Description
    In New York City, teenager Clary Fray (Lily Collins) begins seeing strange symbols, concerning her mother Jocelyn Fray (Lena Headey) and her mother's friend Luke Garroway (Aidan Turner). Later, while attending a nightclub with her friend Simon Lewis (Robert Sheehan), Clary witnesses a man being murdered by Jace Wayland (Jamie Campbell Bower), whom only Clary appears to see. Meanwhile, Jocelyn is abducted by two men, Emil Pangborn (Kevin Durand) and Samuel Blackwell (Robert Maillet), and leaves a message for Clary warning her that someone named Valentine is coming after her. Returning home, Clary is attacked by a demon and rescued by Jace, who reveals himself to be a Shadowhunter, a warrior trained to slay demons hidden on Earth, such as the man in the nightclub. Jocelyn was a Shadowhunter as well, and Clary has inherited her powers, including the ability to read runes.
    Clary and Jace visit Clary's neighbor and friend, Madame Dorothea (C. C. H. Pounder), a witch who reveals that Pangborn and Blackwell are after the Mortal Cup, one of the three Mortal Instruments given to the first Shadowhunter by the Angel Raziel, that allows humans to become half-Angel. Simon, now able see Jace, joins them as they leave to meet Luke in his bookstore. There, Luke is being interrogated by Pangborn and Blackwell, and reveals that he is after the Mortal Cup himself. The trio then escapes to the Shadowhunters' base of operations, the Institute, where Clary and Simon meet Jace's fellow Shadowhunters, Alec Lightwood (Kevin Zegers) and Isabelle Lightwood (Jemima West), and their leader, Hodge Starkweather (Jared Harris), who reveals that Pangborn and Blackwell are working for Valentine Morgenstern (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a ex-Shadowhunter who betrayed the group and sought to steal the Mortal Cup for himself in order to gain control of Shadowhunters and demons alike.
    Believing the key to find the Mortal Cup lies within Clary's mind, Starkweather instructs Jace to take Clary to the City of Bones, where fallen Shadowhunters are laid to rest, to meet Brother Jeremiah (Stephen R. Hart), a dead Shadowhunter that probes Clary's mind and learns of her connection to a powerful sorcerer, Magnus Bane (Godfrey Gao). Clary, Jace, Simon, Alec and Isabelle meet Bane in a nightclub, where he reveals that Jocelyn hired him to block knowledge of the Shadowhunters from Clary's mind. Their conversation is interrupted when Simon is kidnapped by vampires, leading to a confrontation in a nearby hotel, in which the group is nearly killed before werewolves that hold a truce with the Shadowhunters intervene and save them.
    Back in the Institute, Clary falls in love with Jace while joining him on a romantic evening with him in a greenhouse, upsetting both Simon, who is in love with her, and Alec, who is in love with Jace. She eventually realizes that the Mortal Cup is hidden inside a tarot card belonging to her mother, and the group returns to Clary's apartment to retrieve it. There, they discover Madame Dorothea is a demon sent to steal the Mortal Cup. It is killed by Simon and Jace after mortally wounding Alec, while Clary retrieves the Mortal Cup.
    The group then returns to the Institute, where they are betrayed by Starkweather, who steals the Mortal Cup and summons Morgenstern. He reveals himself to be Clary's father and attempts to force her to join him, but she refuses and escapes with help from Luke, the werewolf that saved them earlier, and who is truly loyal to Jocelyn. Luke reveals that Clary has a brother, Jonathan Morgenstern, and returns to the Institute with her and his pack to fight Morgenstern, who uses the Mortal Cup to open a portal and summon an army of demons to New York. Simon and Isabelle manage to close the portal with help from Starkweather, who sees the error of his ways and sacrifices himself to kill Blackwell. Meanwhile, Bane protects Alec and Luke kills Pangborn.
    Clary and Jace fight Morgenstern, who reveals that they are siblings, and Jace is Jonathan. He tries to convince them to join him, but they refuse and push him through the portal with a duplicate Mortal Cup, which is then closed by Jace. Jocelyn is rescued and recovers in the hospital, where she is reunited with Luke. Clary assures Simon that, although she doesn't love him, someone will. Clary then heads back home and uses her powers to repair the damage done to her apartment. Shortly thereafter, Jace appears and confesses that he needs her and wants her to come back to the Institute. Once she agrees to go with him, Jace states that he does not believe that they are siblings. Clary then gets on his motorcycle and they drive off into the night.

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