The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) movie poster

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)

"There is a world hidden within our own."
ThumbScore
👍 59%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 23%
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Runtime
2h 10m
Rated
PG-13
Country
Canada, Germany, United Kingdom
Language
English
TMDB Rating
6.4/10 (4,609 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
13%
Metacritic
33

Cast

Lily Collins as Clary Fray · 68% avg
Jamie Campbell Bower as Jace Wayland
Robert Sheehan as Simon Lewis · 60% avg
Kevin Zegers as Alec Lightwood · 70% avg
Jemima West as Isabelle Lightwood
Lena Headey as Jocelyn Fray · 68% avg
Aidan Turner as Luke Garroway · 75% avg
Jared Harris as Hodge Starkweather · 69% avg

Is The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones good?

It's divisive. Only 59% of audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 23%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#828 / 937 · Fantasy
Rank in its year
#246 / 277 · 2013
Rank among its director's films
#5 / 5 · Harald Zwart

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is a 2013 Canadian-German fantasy action film directed by Harald Zwart, based on Cassandra Clare's 2007 bestselling novel. Lily Collins stars as Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary New York teenager who discovers she is a Shadowhunter — a member of a secret lineage of half-angel warriors who protect the human world from demons and other supernatural threats. When Clary's mother is kidnapped by a rogue Shadowhunter named Valentine Morgenstern, played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Clary must navigate a hidden world of warlocks, werewolves, and vampires alongside the brooding warrior Jace, played by Jamie Campbell Bower.

The film was designed to launch a franchise to compete with The Hunger Games and Twilight but arrived as audience fatigue with YA adaptations was setting in. The Mortal Instruments earned $90 million worldwide on a $60 million budget, insufficient for sequels, though the property was successfully rebooted as the television series Shadowhunters.

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