Storyline
In New York City, Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who protect humanity from evil forces. After her mother disappears, Clary joins forces with a group of Shadowhunters and enters Downworld, an alternate realm filled with demons, vampires, and a host of other creatures. Clary and her companions must find and protect an ancient cup that holds the key to her mother's future.
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Jamie Campbell Bower, Kevin Durand, Lena Headey, Robert Maillet, Jared Harris, Stephen R. Hart, Chris Ratz, CCH Pounder, Carlos Gonzalez-Vio, Lily Collins, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kevin Zegers, Harry Van Gorkum, Robert Sheehan, Christopher Maleki, Jonathan Seinen, Pedro Miguel Arce, Adam Bogen, Jemima West, Aidan Turner, Aidan Turner, Godfrey Gao, Chad Connell, Elyas M’Barek, Matthew Cheng, Melantha Blackthorne, Alex Branton, Lucy DeLaat, Derrick Gauthier, Andre Givogue, Derek Herd, Jasmine Sean, Bonnie Siu, Gregory Terlecki, Jerry A. Ziler
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Reviews
50
If you love exposition and shapely if bland young actors in leather, skinny jeans, knee boots, Goth cocktail dresses and heavy eye makeup, this may be the movie for you.
50
There are elements worth celebrating. The movie is thankfully less self-serious than the mopey “Twilight” films. The Mortal Instruments revels in its own camp. But there is plenty of room for improvement. The action flick is overly long, complicated and, even by teen romance standards, cringe-worthy in its cheesiness.
50
Start with a heaping helping of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Throw in some "Percy Jackson," a dash of "Twilight," a spoonful of "The Vampire Diaries" and a sprinkling of "Harry Potter," and you end up with The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
40
There’s a germ of something interesting and different within the film’s narrative tangle, but it’s unfortunately been subsumed by Hollywood’s dedication to replicating previous successes.
40
Arizona Republic
There’s so much bouncing around in tone and story that this film never really finds its footing. It flounders around trying to figure out what it should be, and never really settles on anything.
