The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Two worlds will collide

Based on the first in a series of popular teen novels, we retread 'Moonlight Saga' territory, which requires you to accept werewolves, demons and vampires as real. A young woman learns, after her mother disappears, that she is part of a clan of Shadowhunters, who go about killing the previously mentioned nasties. The main baddie has kidnapped her mom, and now it's up to our plucky heroine and her friends to sort things out. Reviews have not been good, and there is speculation that the remaining books will not be filmed.

130 minutes.
No persons under 13 (Violence).
Action, Adventure, Detective/Mystery, Drama, Fantasy, Romance.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

A gun would be nice ...

Credits

Cast	Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Kevin Zegers, Jemima West, Robert Sheehan, Robert Maillet
Director	Harald Zwart
Screenplay	Jessica Postigo, based on the novel by Cassandra Clare
Music	Atli Örvarsson
Cinematography	Geir Hartly Andreassen
Editing	Joel Negron
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, Datasat
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2013
Produced by	Constantin Film Produktion, Don Carmody Productions, Unique Features

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Action, adventure, fantasy
Language	None
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Moderate impact, frequent, fantastical
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments	The movie contains themes which may be deemed inappropriate and potentially disturbing to younger and sensitive audiences.
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
ScreenIt C. Fuchs Since it's already about as 'mashed' as they come, I'm not sure this film will get a similar treatment of its own somewhere down the line, but there's no denying you've seen this offering, or at least its various pieces, in lots of other earlier films.	7
Metacritic.com 35 critics	7
Rottentomatoes critics 113 critics	8
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones borrows ingredients from seemingly every fantasy franchise of the last 30 years -- but can't seem to figure out what to do with them.	2
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	7
What the People say
Internet 18370 Netizens Great Movie for everyone, not just the Twilight crowd	13
Average .. 37%	7