The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

2013 • 130 minutes

About this movie

Based on the Best-Selling series by Cassandra Clare. Clary's life is turned upside down when her mother is kidnapped and it's revealed that she and her mother are actually shadowhunters - billed with protecting the world from downworlders such as vampires, werewolves and demons. Clary must discover her talents and save her mother.

Ratings and reviews

When I watched the trailer, it totally diminished my interest in watching the movie. The novel is amazing on its own, there was no need to make a movie out of it. The virtues and personalities of some characters were completely different from book, something that fans shouldn't be okay with. I understand that you can't include every single scene in the book when you are making its film adaptation, but the film had so many plot changes that weren't necessary. I'm expecting better for COA.

This the worst movie repersentation of a book I have ever seen. It claims to be the movie of the first book though has scenes of all 5 books. The events in the books are put in the wrong order. Also they combined characters. There are several events in this movie that never happened in the book. The actors and actresses do a poor job of displaying emotions in tge movie. The only decent thing about this movie is the music. Do Not buy this movie you'll will be wasting your money. Trust me.

Honestly, the only thing I hated about the movie with was the actor pick. Like seriously? They could have done a better Clary ( Clary has red hair ) and Jace, Isabel was okay, Alec was great, simon was pretty close. Other than that, the movie was cool, not exactly what I wanted but its not like I'm making the movie, and I can't do anything about it anyway. Over all the movie was OK. But I've seen better