First of all, I haven't read the books. Had I done so, and had I liked them, I'd probably watched this movie in a different way, with some kind of attachment for the characters. As it is, I didn't feel anything for them, I just couldn't connect.
Plot: Clary is a teenage girl, and lately she feels strange, she draws over and over the same symbol as if in trance. One day in a club she sees a guy killing a man, but she's the only one that could see them. When she finds herself in trouble, is that same guy that saves her, and subsiquently explains that he's a shadowhunter, he fights demons, and she's a shadowhunter too. No surprise that the two of them have immediately a crush on one another, who would have thought, uh? It must be some kind of universal law that rescuer and rescued must fall for each other, always, it never happens that he loves someone else, or that she falls for his friend instead of him.. no, not if he's the rescuer and she's the rescued! They must fall for each other!
Actually this could explain why all rescued fairytale princesses are so beautiful. If they are not they don't get rescued to avoid having to marry her... Anyway, it turns out they could very probably be brother and sister, but they don't want to believe it because they want to stay together!
I think the problem for me was that I didn't feel anything for the characters, none of them. I'm not talking about actors, I don't know them enough, I'm talking characters, and they were so plain and without any density at all... maybe if I was a teenager myself I would have watched it with different eyes, but alas I'm not anymore, so I found it plain and a bit boring, yes. Good special effetcs, nice fights, and I liked the fact that she fights using runes on her skin. I admit that was cool, but it always annoys me when all the nice secondary characters get killed and forgotten and it's an happy ending if just the protagonists survive.
In the end, I don't really care for this movie, I'd be bored watching it again, so I don't think I will.
Well, I forgot I wrote about it already so I rewatched it... here it is, in more details:
20 February 2021
Now that I’ve seen two seasons of the series, and I understand the story, I’m rewatching this movie. It’s… better than the first time I saw it, yes, but it still feels incomplete, and there’s lots of things left unsaid, and it focuses only on Clary and Jace yet again, and it is difficult to follow if you don’t already know the story. A movie should be understandable by everyone, not only by book fans, and although some scenes may be cool, it is not right to spend much time for them if the story pays the price. We have scenes that show us the shadow world, and then big fights, and lots of bats flying around, but then it is not clear why Simon doesn’t need his glasses anymore after being bitten by a vampire, since he’s not superstrong and can walk during the day. It’s not clear what Jocelyn drank or why or how she’ll wake up or where is she at the end, can normal doctors really care for her now?
We don’t see Magnus doing anything, we’re told is the most powerful warlock and yet he doesn’t do a thing (one chat with Clary and then we know he heals Alec, but we never see him doing anything). He was cute and cool though. Even more shame we didn’t see more of him.
Why Valentine wanted the cup so much? Why Clary is so powerful? Many things in this movie are not told or overlooked, and yet they spent a lot of time having Isabelle and Simon running around, showing us lots of bats invading the place, the long fight between Jace and Valentine, and stuff like that, and of course the flowers blossoming to make it romantic for Clary and Jace to kiss…
Conclusion, not a good movie, no.
Details:
It starts like a short version of the series: Clary goes out with Simon who is like a brother to her but who is actually in love with her. Her mom is with Luke, and against his advice she insists Clary is not ready for the truth. At a club, Clary sees people fighting and three of them killing another guy and freaks out. She keeps writing the same symbol over and over and thinks she’s losing her mind.
Two guys attack Jocelyn is search of the Cup, and she fights back then she drinks something. Clary runs home to find her home a mess, and a demon dog that she tries to kill setting the kitchen on fire, but it doesn’t work and the blond from the club comes to save her.
Her neighbour Dorothea is a witch and tells her her memories have been blocked.
With Jace and Simon, she goes to Luke and the same two guys are asking him about the cup and beating him. Luke says he didn’t care about Jocelyn, so they run, Jace kills two demon-cops and takes them to the Institute. They heal her with a rune. She learns her mom was a shadowhunter too. Hodge, the old man who runs the institute, talks to her, tells her that Valentine and his followers stole the cup to make more shadowhunters, but he didn’t want peace really, he wanted to rule, he made experiments even on himself, so she stole the cup and ran.
They take Clary to the silent brothers, thinking maybe she knows where the cup is but can’t remember. The city of bones is where all shadowhunters are buried. Clary sees images of herself as a child but can’t remember still, so they take her to Bane. Clary understands Alec doesn’t like and how he feels about Jace, but apparently that’s against Clave rules or something.
Magnus kinds flirts with Alec then tells Clary that her mom had him put spells on her so she would forget, but she must run because vampires took Simon. They get weapons from a church and they go rescue Simon from a place full of vampires, and have to fight lots of them, but there’s really too many, then werewolves come to their rescue but Clary hurts one of them even if it just saved her.
Simon doesn’t need his glasses anymore and files it as just ‘weird’.
She spends time with Jace, talking about music, her birthday, emotions, and Jace’s falcon story about how his dad killed it, justifying his actions. They kiss passionately then they fight about Simon. Simon is jealous and confesses to love her, then goes away.
She realises she has the power to make things flat like drawings and then get them back, like her mother could. She understands the cup is in one of the tarot cards and she gets it from Dorothea right before she turns into a demon and attacks her, and takes the cup. Simon comes and helps, so Jace can kill her and they get the cup back. They hug and make up.
Alec was badly hurt by the demon so they take him to the institute. Clary gives the cup to Hodge and he opens the portal, and Valentine steps through and Hodge gives him the cup. Clary learns she’s his daughter. He wants her to drink something but instead she puts the cup back in the tarot card and runs through the portal to her mother. Instead she meets a demon child but a werewolf once again saves her, and it’s Luke.
Hodge tells Valentine to lie to her to break her heart, to tell her that the one she wants is her brother…
Magnus comes to help save Alec. Hodge and Valentine summon demons inside the institute.
Luke tells her that Valentine let Jocelyn believe he killed himself and their son, Jonathan Christopher, while Valentine tells Jace he’s his father.
Jocelyn is suddenly at the institute, so Clary and Luke and all werewolves go there.
Surrounded by demons, Clary uses Isabelle’s stele to draw a rune on her hand that freezes the demons, a rune not in the book. Luke stays behind to fight the demons (all his poor werewolves die). Valentine tells Clary Jace is her brother. then Jace fights him when he hurts Clary.
Hodge now helps Isabelle and Simon fight and closes off the institute. Clary gives the cup to Valentine before pushing him through the portal thinking he’ll get lost in limbo, or something, but she uses Jace’s stele to freeze the portal, but he breaks it… ? Or something, there’s an explosion then the portal is gone and the place looks like under a snowfall. She gave Valentine a replica of the cup, actually.
Jocelyn is now in a sort of coma, and Clary uses runes to put her home back together. She finds it difficult to be around Jace now, but he says they need her so she goes with him.
And it ends like this, without telling us if Magnus successfully healed Alec or if they rid the institute of all demons (we can guess yes, but we’re not told anything).
So many things left unsaid, this whole movie feels like a part one, not a complete story.
ITA shadowhunters - città di ossa
Clary- Lily Collins
Jace- Jamie Campbell Bower
Alec- Kevin Zegers
Isabelle- Jemima West
Simon- Robert Sheehan
Magnus- Godfrey Gao
Jocelyn- Lena Headey
Hodge- Jared Harris
Valentine- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Luke- Aidan Turner
Dorothea- Cch Puonder
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