Full(!!@^)) Watch The Mortal Instruments City of Bones Online Free Enjoy HD special powers that allow her to see a world that so-called Muggles Mundanes arent equipped to see. Its a world of Shadowhunters, who protect humans from demons, vampires, investment bankers, etc. Claras first glimpse into this world is when she witnesses dreamy Jace Jamie Campbell Bower seemingly committing a murder in a nightclub — something only she can see. For Clary, the world is suddenly a land of confusion. By the way, this scene is later explained by a quick aside from Jace but if you really think about everything that took place in that club, the explanation makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Nevertheless, Clary joins forces with the Shadowhunters, and the real fun begins.

By the way, Jonathan Rhys Meyers TVs The Tudors plays a power-hungry Shadowhunter named Valentine. Rhys Myers, normally excellent, acts as if he truly was hungry, because theres a lot of scenery chewing going on here.

Theres excellent chemistry between Collins and Campbell Bower, the kind of chemistry that I liken to emotional flypaper for the young adult demographic to which these books and movies are designed to appeal. And to be fair, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is a step above Hollywoods most recent attempts at emulating Twilight, namely Beautiful Creatures and Twilight author Stephenie Meyers The Host. Unfortunately, director Harald Zwart unsuccessfully tries to compress teen angst, love, passion, unfulfilled dreams and action into an overzealous, over-the-top, never-ending finale which seems about as well planned as throwing rocks and sand into a blender in the hope that if you blend it long enough at high-enough speed, you might wind up with a delicious milkshake.

I overheard two telling comments at the screening. A woman in her mid-to-late twenties sitting next to me leaned over to her friend during a scene in which the storys love triangle emerges, and said, This isnt really believable. Of course, this was after learning the movies central premise and witnessing numerous demons being slaughtered and improbable, gravity-defying events. Then on the way out of the theater, that same woman said to her friend, That was really good!

And that pretty much sums it up. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is not a very good film by any stretch of the imagination. However, it does possess a slick, beautiful, young-adult aesthetic and a supernatural, emotional yet nonsensical love triangle that the films target demographic goes crazy for.

Two-and-a-half out of five stars.

Certainly not the first and very unlikely the last studio attempt at launching a Twilight/Hunger Games franchise of their very own, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is a bona fide saga all right -- just not in a good way.