The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones

Set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray (Lily Collins), discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother (Lena Headey), Clary must join forces with a group of Shadowhunters, who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures. Based on the worldwide best-selling book series.

I expected this movie to basically be Twilightish because of the whole teen/young adult reading connection and what not. For the first half of the movie, I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't like that at all. They did a good job of setting up the story and the pacing was really good with all the information needed to properly establish everything. Then, about halfway through the movie, it flipped very hard core into the Twilightish realm I was expecting and it really slowed the movie down for about 1/2 hour before picking up again with tons of crazy action at the end with the shadow hunters and werewolves fighting the demons.

I would actually recommend people checking this out though. Even though there is the Twilight vibe for parts of it, the movie did a great job of creating this world with all the different supernatural types are involved and established a lot of connections between the main characters that could lead to some interesting payoffs be it in the books they are based on or future installments of the movie.