Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

emmabredius I found this movie a great one! It had a great storyline, and I liked how the reality was formed into the story, where Clary couldn't see the world as it was after what had passed between her and Jace. However, I personally do not believe them to be related, for the storyline would be too cliche in my opinion. That is exactly why I adored how Clary just steps onto the bike with Jace and they ride into the distance, without any clearance of what would be in store for them and their relationship in future. I close off with what has been said before, I really enjoyed the movie.

konobarlives Can't really add anything not mentioned before.But must say it's funny how most good reviews are made by profiles who ONLY ever commented on this movie...friends/family members much? :P Shame IMDb is corrupt with ratings based in this way any1 with enough fake account's/friends can rate up even worse of production's... Overall utter junk compiled from little of every series/movie u can think of from Dracula to Buffy the vampire slayer.Sad attempt at scrounging some cash from fans...Would recommend to watch only to producer's/director's who wanna learn how NOT to make movie.

sarahattar THEY BUTCHERED THE FIRST BOOK! Now listen here, friends, and let me tell you something about The Mortal Instrument series; it's amazing. Mind blowingly amazing. Sky soaring amazing. Life changing amazing. Long story short, it's amazing. But this? This is a disappointment. They chopped and butchered my beloved series and turned it into a pathetic, poorly written, cheestastic, badly edited piece of crap. First off, whats with the guy who plays Magnas Bane? He's a terrible actor. Just downright terrible, the others I can stand but he was just not fit to be Magnas. Or anyone for that matter without a few acting lessons. Secondly, Alec was in the movie for a total of, what, 3 minutes? Third, if you hadn't read the books beforehand you are going to be very very confused at some parts, especially when Valentine steps in so if you truly want to watch this film, I suggest reading up first. Fourth, I don't understand what they did to Jace's character, where's the wit? Wheres that cocky confidence? They drained Jace into a persona that he simply doesn't belong in. This movie was a colossal disappointment. The casting is all wrong, some of the actors are just plain bad at acting and the plot, dear god, the plot MAKES ME MAD.In summary, don't watch it. It doesn't do the series justice at all. It merely taints Casandra Claire's good name. Read the books instead.

MisterWhiplash I could go on and on about how pedestrian so many of the generic components of this movie are, and that the hack tinkerer-borrower-thieves (please don't call them authors, even though one of them wrote a book series this is based on), or how laughable the CGI and effects are (this may be the movie's one saving grace... in spurts, like when a big Rottweiler turns into a, uh, dog-squid thing, it's hilarious), or that Lily Collins' eyebrows steal the show from most of the cast. Or that Jared Harris has the look of desperation (and maybe mild-to-severe drunkenness) that his father had in various roles over the years when slumming it is the polite term for what he's doing here. Or that Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, of all people, seems to be the only guy here trying to get SOMETHING out of this material and hams it up to a degree I kind of respect.But I'd rather go on about Jamie Campbell Bower. I can't remember the last time that a lead male acting performance in a major motion picture - and for how cheap some of this (or a lot of this) looks and feels as a picture made for YA Hot Topic girls (and the poor boyfriends dragged along), it's a 60 million dollar movie that's meant to launch a franchise (which it didn't) - sunk something else so low with him. I don't know if another actor could have exactly *saved* this movie, since so many things with the over-convoluted plot make it so tedious and dumb and boring, though maybe it isn't since so much revolves around a magic cup that can be reached by Collins through her magic as a uh Shadow-walker or whatever it is.But I can imagine that another actor, maybe who could get some decent chemistry or have some charisma or personality or ANYTHING REMOTELY WORTHY FOR HUMANITY AS A SPECIES could at least make this watchable. I'd rather sit through ten hours strapped in an Alex DeLarge D-Box seat of the Twilight movies with Robert Pattinson's smoldering and awkward tension than see this waste of air again. This is a person who got cast because of his cheekbones and blonde hair; how can it be for his acting? Ironically he also appeared in those Twilight movies, so perhaps there was a correlation. But none of his lines register, and he has a good deal of exposition to deliver so it does matter (I think I missed a few points here and there through his monotony), and he emotes like a dry sponge. The model-actresses in The Neon Demon had more screen presence, only there that was part of the POINT that they seemed so out of it and detached. Why do casting directors, or whoever was involved in the decision to put this man in this movie, think this is okay to throw wasteful, palid, skinny-white-as-f*** boy meat to presumably starving pubescent girls? As far as miscasting, Bruce Willis in Bonfire of the Vanities suddenly seems like a good idea! It may sound like I'm picking on him, and maybe I am. I simply can't stress enough for you how much of a vacuum he served; physically I can see it only in the most basic sense of (spoiler) who he is supposed to be familiarly connected with in the story. But at any rate he is part of the package of what this movie is delivering anyway: a tepid romantic love triangle, and hodge-podge of tropes from so many, many of these kind of movies, whether it's Underworld (vampires and werewolves and, yes, those did it friggin better!), or Twilight, or even god damn Star Wars(!), and a few decent actors like Harris and Headley are caught up in the miasma.A few parts are funny in a fun-bad-OMG movie kind of way, usually pertaining to some of the CGI creations or, at one point, blooming flowers and a sudden shower of indoor rain when the main couple finally first kisses. This aside, this is a complete piece of modern day movie garbage, packaged in the most cynical manner and appealing to the worst tastes (i.e. this poor excuse for smoldering - I mean, come on man, Spike from Buffy called and he asked his nephew to step AWAY from the cameras please!) Stay away.