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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
MEANRANK
56/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4612
- IMDb #4810
- Google retired #1767
- Rotten Tomatoes #4509
- Metacritic #4408
- Letterboxd #4812
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5343
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3500
- Metacritic Critics #4634
- Metacritic Audience #3497
- Douban #2554
- Kinopoisk #4646
- AlloCiné #3126
- Trakt #3703
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 13, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 23, everyone else 63.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A teenager living in New York City witnesses a murder committed by invisible assailants and is drawn into a hidden world of demon-hunting warriors called Shadowhunters. She learns that her own mother has a secret past connected to this world and that she may be the key to recovering a powerful magical artifact that is desperately sought by a dangerous rogue Shadowhunter.
Details
- Director
- Harald Zwart
- Writers
- I. Marlene King, Jessica Postigo
- Based on
- City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
- Released
- 21 August 2013
- Country
- Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $60.0M
- Box office
- $95.4M
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