Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New – 1/23/14] | Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Steve Biodrowski @ Cinefantastique Online
- Excerpt: Absolutely mind-numbing.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: in addition to its overstuffed mythology, the movie’s climax is never ending, and so many plot strands are left open for the sequels it cannot stand as a singular cinematic experience in and of itself.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: [I]t only grows more frustratingly dense with clarifications that toss out a lot of information without ever actually explaining anything.
- Mark Harris @ About.com
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is studio Screen Gems’ hopeful attempt to get in on the action (read: cash) but has so little to show for itself besides being derivative, interminably dopey and overcooked, and just plain interminable YA fan fiction.
- Oktay Ege Kozak @ Oregon Herald
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: No bones about it…
- Frank Ochieng @ SFcrowsnest
- Excerpt: Uninspired, cluttered, generic and boorish, ‘The Mortal Instrument: City Of Bones’ features strained action sequences, repetitive plotting, unimaginative character development and the tedious overstuffing of mythological mumbo jumbo.
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: A total mess and complete non-starter as the next big Young Adult franchise, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is as disheveled and confusing as its unwieldy title might imply
- Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Kent Turner @ School Library Journal
