The Mortal Instruments: City of Fallen Angels

The Mortal Instruments: City of Fallen Angels is an Urban Fantasy film released in 2016 based on the 2011 novel by Cassandra Clare. It was a box office success and the fourth installment of The Shadowhunters Chronicles film series. It received mainly negative reviews from critics with praise for it's cast and chemistry, but criticized its plot, pacing, action scenes, writing and dark content.

Plot
A few weeks after the events of the previous film, Jace has nightmares about killing Clary. Jocelyn discovers a demonic child in the hospital with clawed hands and black eyes.

Meanwhile, Simon and his band have become more active. Simon's mom discovers he's a vampire because he's hiding blood bags in the closet. She disowns him and kicks him out of the house so he's forced to live with his bandmate Jordan Kyle who he discovers is werewolf and Maia's sire and Ex-Boyfriend. He's recruited by a vampire leader named Camille Belcourt who kidnaps a groupie named Maureen and sends a threatening message to the New York Institute. Unfortunately, the team ignores the message which results in Maureen being killed and sired as a vampire.

Jace, Clary and Izzy continue fighting demons and Jace and Clary make love to take their relationship further. However, Jace is violent and paranoid. Clary takes him to the Silent Brothers at the rebuild silent city who reveal that his revival has left him vulnerable to insanity and demonic possession. A mysterious demon named Lilith disguises herself as Max and manipulates Jace to cut himself and draws a rune on him so she can control him. Jocelyn and Luke hold an engagement party where Jace and Clary try to draw a rune that will bind them together but Jace faints due to the presence of Lilith one of the eldest greater demons. Lilith takes Jace and Clary hostage and blackmails Simon to resurrect Sebastian with daylighter blood. Simon takes Isabelle, Alec, Maia, and Jordan to a hospital used by Lilith where they discover countless babies turned into demonic creatures.

Clary frees Jace from Lilith's control and attacks Lilith. Lilith tortures Clary in front of Jace, Simon and the others intervene and fight Lilith's hellhounds. Simon uses a protective rune given to him by Clary to destroy Lilith's physical form. Jace and Clary embrace and Clary forgives Jace for his actions while under Lilith's control. However, the mark Lilith used to control Jace gets used again by Sebastian's ghost who forces him to fully revive him.

In a mid-credits scene, Lilith unable to take physical form gives Sebastian the Infernal Cup a cup containing her blood that Sebastian can use to corrupt Shadowhunters.

Cast

 * Lily Collins as Clary
 * Jamie Campbell Bower as Jace
 * Robert Sheehan as Simon
 * Kevin Zegers as Alec
 * Lena Headey as Jocelyn
 * Aidan Turner as Luke
 * Mila Kunis as Amatis Graymark
 * Jemima West as Isabelle
 * Godfrey Gao as Magnus Bane
 * C. C. H. Pounder as Dorothea
 * Ash Santos as Maia Roberts
 * Andrew Garfield as Sebastian Morgenstern
 * Nat Wolff as Raphael Santiago
 * Amber Heard as Camille Belcourt
 * Ryan Potter as Jordan Kyle
 * Bridget Regan as Elaine Lewis
 * Jessica De Gouw as Lilith
 * Elle Fanning as Maureen Brown
 * Liam Hemsworth as Eric Hillchurch
 * Justice Smith as Kirk Duplesse
 * CJ Adams as Matt Charlton
 * Jason Maybaum as Max Lightwood
 * Kate Beckinsale as Maryse Lightwood

Critical Reception
The Mortal Instruments: City of Fallen Angels received mainly negative reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 24% based on 240 reviews, with an average rating of 2/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The Mortal Instruments: City of Fallen Angels Like the book it's based on, unnecessarily continues a series that ended on a high note." Metacritic gives the film a score of 30 out of 100, based on 140 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable views". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.

Sequel
Four months later, it received a sequel "City of Lost Souls."