The Mortal Instruments: City of Lost Souls

The Mortal Instruments: City of Lost Souls is an Urban Fantasy film released in 2016 based on the 2012 novel by Cassandra Clare. It was a box office success and the fifth installment of The Shadowhunters Chronicles film series. It received mixed to negative reviews from critics with praise for its cast and improvement over it's predecessor, but criticized its pacing, incestuous rape scene, and low-stakes plot that does nothing but set up the final film of the series. It was the tenth highest grossing film of 2016.

Plot
While under possession by Sebastian, Jace goes missing. Clary and the Shadowhunter institute communicate with the Seelie Queen who agrees to help them in exchange for faerie rings that allow telepathic connections. While looking for them, Clary finds Jace communicating with Sebastian. In the morning, Clary wakes up to find Jace in bed with her and is horrified. Jocelyn and Luke wake up to find Sebastian in the house. Jace and Sebastian try to get Clary to join them but she refuses.

Clary decides to join them as a spy using the Faerie rings to communicate with Simon. Clary finds out Jace and Sebastian are connected with a mark that keeps healing and if one is killed the other will die. Izzy and Jocelyn talk to the Iron Sisters who say that only a blade of heaven can undo the possession and connection. While with Jace and Sebastian Clary discovers the the rune controlling Jace is fading, while free from possession he reveals Sebastian's plan. Jace plans to turn himself into the Clave to avoid any issues but Clary gets Sebastian's attention so he heals the rune to take control over Jace.

Simon makes a deal with the Angel Raziel, His Mark of Cane for the Blade of Heaven. Simon tells Clary to meet him at the Seventh Sacred Site, but to keep Sebastian from overhearing them she smashes the ring. At the Seventh Sacred Site, Clary turns on Sebastian and they fight. Sebastian defeats Clary and tries to rape her. Clary manages to get away and hides while Sebastian attempts a magic ritual using Lilith's blood to create Dark Shadowhunters with the Infernal Cup. Sebastian had kidnapped Amatis Greymark who they test the cup on turning her into an Endarkened Shadowhunter.

During a fight with the Shadowhunters against the Endarkened and Sebastian, Clary uses the Blade of Heaven to free Jace from his possession by stabbing him with the sword enlightening him with heavenly fire but sending the sword back to heaven. Sebastian flees promising revenge against the shadowhunters and that his Endarkned will change the world. Jace slowly heals from his injuries and is free from possession. Meanwhile Alec's mother Maryse shows the Silent brothers a pair of angel wings given to he by Sebastian signed with his birth name claiming that he's coming.

In a mid-credits scene, Maureen Brown hunts down the vampire leader Camille Belcourt and kills her. She then takes over the New York vampire clan and meets with Alec boasting about the death of Camille.

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
 * Christina Hendricks as Seelie Queen
 * Alia Shawkat Rebecca Lewis
 * Damien Lewis as Azazel
 * Aaron Eckhart as Raziel
 * Kate Beckinsale as Maryse Lightwood

Critical Reception
The Mortal Instruments: City of Fallen Angels received mixed to negative reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 33% based on 245 reviews, with an average rating of 4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The Mortal Instruments: City of Lost Souls may be a slight improvement over it's predecessor, but is an unnecessary piece of filler for the series." Metacritic gives the film a score of 40 out of 100, based on 145 critics, indicating "Mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.

Sequel
It received a sequel entitled "City of Heavenly Fire" in 2017 which concludes the saga. In 2018, the franchise continued with a prequel trilogy entitled The Infernal Devices.