Movie review: Performances and plot in 'The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones' barely rattle along inside a grab bag of ideas in this film based on the Cassandra Clare novel.

Teen love triangle? Check. Werewolves and vampires? Check. This is film-making at its most cynical, writes Francesca Steele

"Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" tries to do the same things that "Twilight" does but it goes about it in even worse ways, with weird ideas about romance and almost-sex.

There is most certainly an audience for the film of "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones," fans of the six (planned) novels about demons, supernatural demon fighters, vampires, werewolves, witches and warlocks. They'll thrill to all the endless litany of runes, talismans, history and "rules" of this world of shadowhunters descended from an angel that showed up…

Despite some effective action scenes, the adaptation of the young-adult novel is too much like other fantasy series.

'The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones' might reduce plans for the sequel to ashes

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Lily Collins stars in Sony's adaptation of Cassandra Clare's best-selling YA book.

This gothic teen fantasy is one of the most disastrous page-to-screen adaptations in memory, writes Robbie Collin.

Spoilers... I guess. Those who care, however, will have already read the book and therefore can't be spoiled. When it comes to movies based on YA novels, there are two flavors: those designed exclusively for fans of the books (Twilight, for example...

When her mother is abducted by a demon, a teen (Lily Collins) learns that she comes from a line of Shadowhunters, who defend the world from supernatural beasties. Directed by Harold Zwart (the latest Karate Kid) it's the first film in a planned franchise based on Cassandra Clare's novels.

Based on the first installment of a six-book series about demons and shadowhunters.

A ludicrous, borderline-nonsensical supernatural concoction with a slightly redeeming sense of its own silliness.