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The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones
After the sudden disappearance of her mother, Clary Fray is introduced to a lineage of shadow hunters and they fight to defend the universe from demons and warlocks.
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July 20, 2015
It didn't help that the execution of the complex storyline was so messy and confusing that it was difficult to understand why the villain was doing what he was doing.
September 29, 2013
Awful, expensive, over-long, unremittingly dull attempt to start a Twilight-like franchise... plans were already underway for the sequel before this was released. They might just want to wait to see if anybody's interested first.
August 22, 2013
"The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" will make you yearn for more "Twilight" movies.
September 01, 2013
Way to give overwrought fan fiction a bad name. No amount of fairy dust can make this bewitching.
June 28, 2016
The character development and story beats are quite predictable and that's the irony of Zwart's film: he's made a mundane movie for an audience of mundanes.
September 07, 2013
If you can overlook the lack of originality, the film actually makes a good fist of making something fresh and appealing from its second-hand ingredients.
August 22, 2013
"The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" plays like a "Scary Movie" parody.
November 10, 2013
'Author' Cassandra Clare assumes that you have never seen a film or read a book in your entire life. She steals plot details from Star Wars, Harry Potter and Twilight and assumes that no one will notice. I did.
August 22, 2013
Hollywood has more than enough high-caliber young adult lit to mine. Filmmakers should tap into richer human stories. We mere mortals would dearly appreciate it.
August 22, 2013
This desperate Twilight wannabe hits more than its own share of clunky notes.
August 22, 2013
Every fantasy creature except zombies get a workout in this overstuffed spectacle about a teenage girl who discovers she has angelic blood in her veins.
August 22, 2013
Every moviegoer will have his own breaking point, when "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" surpasses the mundane and enters the ridiculous.