The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, is a 2013 urban fantasy film based on the young adult novel of the same name. It was directed by Harald Zwart and written by Jessica Postigo.

Plot
In New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenage artist named Clary Fray learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters -- Nephilim warriors who protect humanity from demons and monsters. After her mother disappears, Clary joins the 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.

Reasons why it's an anti-religious, demonic, poorly scripted Horrible Movie.

 * It disrespects Angels by having them give humans powers by having them drink their magic blood similar to Vampires.
 * It depicts Nephilim as the good guys unlike in the Hebrew bible where they are children of fallen angels. This franchise depicts them as heroes. This is extremely demonic and antireligious.
 * Although Jace is part Angel he doesn't believe in god.
 * The main character, Clary Fairchild is a passive protagonist and is very similar to every other fantasy protagonist ever written.
 * It involves occultist Tarot Cards within the first few minutes and they are extremely important to the plot of the film.
 * The plot is terrible.
 * The Script is extremely mediocre.
 * Alec Lightwood's sexuality is barely mentioned.
 * The Macguffin device, the Mortal Cup, is poorly written.
 * Jace Herondale's attitude isn't written that well as he assumes that Clary Fairchild (His Girlfriend) woke up to ask him to do nude modeling.
 * The openly gay warlock scene is confusing and weird.
 * The Vampires motivations for kidnapping Simon Lewis is ridiculous and inaccurate to the book.
 * Although the vampires have cool powers in the franchise's other mediums, they do nothing but fight like zombies.
 * It disrespects religion by saying that all churches have weapons for killing vampires hidden in them.
 * One weapon for killing vampires is a gun with a drill instead of bullets. It's impractical and would probably fail as vampires should be powerful enough to avoid it.
 * It lacks substance.
 * Valentine Morgenstern is a terrible name for a Dark Fantasy villain. He's poorly introduced and his part in the film makes it more convoluted.
 * Using magic runes for superpowers makes the Shadowhunters resemble a cult.
 * Jace Herondale's introduction makes no sense. His reasoning for coming to the protagonist's house makes no sense.
 * The Werewolves attacking the vampires at the time when the protagonists are fighting them makes no sense at all.
 * The Shadowhunters are invisible to the eye of normal people which is stupid.
 * It has a twist in the end that Valentine Morgenstern is Clary's father and Jace's stepfather. It appears for a while that they are brother and sister which would make the main character's romance incest.
 * It's confusing whether or not Valentine survives the end.
 * It blatantly steals ideas from countless Fantasy and Young Adult Franchises including Harry Potter, The Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Vampire Chronicles, Underworld, Grimm and Constantine.
 * Madame Dorothea transformation into a demon is overly creepy.
 * All the characters, except for the two protagonists and villain are not rememberable, lack character development and aren't important to the plot.

Reasons why it's an extremely entertaining, well made, well paced, underrated Excellent Movie.

 * The demon at the beginning of the film is pretty cool.
 * Clary is somewhat relatable and likable.
 * Clary is an artist which featuring an artist as the protagonist is very cool.
 * Some of the acting is very good such as Jamie Campbell Bower, Lily Collins, Jared Harris.
 * The cast and ensemble is decent.
 * Harald Zwart's direction is very good.
 * The scenes with Clary using runes are very good.
 * The portal freezing is awesome.
 * The pacing is very good.
 * The scene where Clary and Jace Kiss is very well done although it makes the film feel more like a teen romance film than an urban fantasy fIlm.

Reception
It received mainly negative reviews from critics but had a more mixed response from general audiences. Review aggregation Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 14% based on 125 reviews and a rating average of 3.93/10. The site commented that "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." At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100, the film has a score of 33% based on reviews from 35 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews."

It made $95.3 million at the box office which failed to break even against a budget of 60 million along with marketing costs.

Trivia

 * 1) The series was rebooted and adapted into Freeform series called Shadowhunters which lasted three seasons with a different cast. It's first season received mixed reviews although the reception of season 2 and 3 was better.