I did not like this movie. I think they did a horrible job adapting the book to a movie. I am currently finishing up the second book and I love the books. The author puts in a lot of details that make sense into the book. The problem with the movie is that they take out or alter these details to the point it takes away from the movie itself. I think that if you have never read the book the movie could be very confusing and kind of boring. There are also a few parts that don't flow as well as the book at all.
For the next movie they either need to change the director or do a closer adaptation of the books which will be impossible to do with the details they left out in the first movie. I hate when Hollywood adaptations try to do their own thing with a story that has already been written. In my opinion though read the book and forget the movie, or waste your time watching the movie and then read the books and you will love them and probably understand them better. The things that I hated most about the movie are the following.
They took entire characters and monsters out and even entire situations that made the story that much better. In the book simon saves the shadow hunters with a Bow in the movie he uses a shovel. In the book the monster that they fight when they find the cup is a greater demon in the movie it is just a demon. In the book they explain Luke's character a lot better then in the movie in the movie they barely touch on his character when they should have.
The movie seemed to bounce around a lot focusing on action and less on story or character development. They changed the order of events and it made the movie way more confusing. They changed the entire story from what the books were making it impossible for the movies to fallow the books at all.
They altered a main characters back story and in a very bad way because it goes against the everything that builds up in the books. I absolutely hate how they did it in the movie it makes it less of a back story and doesn't have as much of an impact on the story or the person watching the movie. They even went as far as to make a bad guy into a good guy. There are even characters that never get mentioned which make the story really hard to understand. One of these things would be that there is no mention of Alec and Isabel's parents.
They altered the stories ending and it wasn't in a good way they changed the story how it happened and the ending entirely. In altering the story as much as they have the adaptation of the second one will be far worse then the first I fear. A lot of the stuff that they took out or changed directly influences the second book and in major ways.
As a stand alone movie I would have to give this movie 2 or 2.5 stars out of 5.
As a book adaptation I would have to give this movie .5 to maybe 1 star and that is pushing it.
My recommendation is if you have never read the books watch the movie and then read the books. If you have read the books don't waste your time or money renting or buying this movie.
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