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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 17 Feb 2017

Carefully composed to provide an equally inoffensive balance for both the Chinese and American markets, ending up with the worst of both worlds…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Feb 2017

As pure spectacle, The Great Wall is absolutely dazzling…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 17 Feb 2017

If you calibrate your expectations to “monster movie for eight-year-olds,” you may find some fun in this energetic and blissfully brief…

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By Jamie Graham (285) for Total Film (3,532) on 17 Feb 2017

A murky mishmash of a movie, with the lightest smattering of glorious moments…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 16 Feb 2017

A bad movie by any culture’s standards, The Great Wall mostly goes to show that if the future of the business lies with Hollywood -China…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 16 Feb 2017

The computer-generated monsters, like the film as a whole, are numbingly repetitive, and devoid of any power to move, scare or stir us…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 16 Feb 2017

From blundered opening to risible conclusion, it’s a wall-to-wall fiasco…

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By Pablo A. Scholz (320) for Clarín (492) on 16 Feb 2017

The story is clearly the least important thing in this film of an unprecedented visual display, with colorful costumes and first-class special…

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By Daniel Gelb (83) for AllMovie (142) on 16 Feb 2017

It's hard not to be cynical about this film…

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By Luke Buckmaster (275) for The Daily Review/Crikey (197) on 16 Feb 2017

Not just the most ostentatious cinematic tourism video since Baz Luhrmann's Australia, but the first blockbuster movie to truly make sense…

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By Roxana Hadadi (336) for Chesapeake Family Magazine (159) on 16 Feb 2017

Legendary Chinese filmmaker Yimou Zhang's The Great Wall is visually astounding and often quite funny, but Matt Damon is an attention-pulling,…

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By Julian Roman (454) for MovieWeb (460) on 16 Feb 2017

Zhang Yimou's The Great Wall is a sleek monster film that befits the artistry of its director…

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By Simon Miraudo (882) for Student Edge (256) on 16 Feb 2017

The Great Wall asks the cinematic question: Was the Great Wall of China really all that great before Matt Damon came along…

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By Jason Zingale (478) for Bullz-Eye.com (1,091) on 16 Feb 2017

Although [The Great Wall] boasts some fantastic visuals and rousing action ... it's ultimately pretty forgettable…

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By Matthew Murray (1) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 16 Feb 2017

In spite of the bored performers and generic script, the combination of beautiful shots and impressive visual effects does give the film some…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for Associated Press (1,685) on 16 Feb 2017

It turns out to be little more than a monster movie (and a poor one at that) that says more about corporate-driven global moviemaking than…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 Feb 2017

If The Great Wall is too spotty to really satisfy as the old-fashioned medieval adventure it sometimes aspires to be, it is consistently engaging…

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By Ed Potton (195) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 16 Feb 2017

With a budget of $150 million The Great Wall is the most expensive co-production yet between America and China, but any hopes that it might…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 16 Feb 2017

The Great Wall is so fantastically misguided and so wonderfully bad, I could see some coming for the action and staying for the camp laughs…

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By Jamie East (261) for The Sun (UK) (932) on 16 Feb 2017

Lower your Matt Damon expectations and you'll enjoy it…

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