Review of The Great Wall (2016) by Jamess — 30 May 2017
The Great Wall may be the most beautiful piece of hokum I've ever seen. Yimou Zhnag, best known for Jet Li's Hero, nails the cinematography, costume and set design. All are excellent. But they threw 150 million and a lot of talented tech people to basically tell a "under siege with monsters" movie.
Remember Feast (or numbers 2 or 3?)? This is the 150 million dollar ancient Chinese version. The two travelling leads banter like an eighties buddy cop movie, even though it's the year 1200 or something.
Even Willem Defoe is wasted. Given the location (the Chinese scenery is again, beautiful), and time frame, think one word, monster?.....dragons? Nope. Some lizardy-dog type creatures that fail to look convincing.
The "predator-dogs" in Predators looked better. At least it was fairly short.
This review of The Great Wall (2016) was written by Jamess on 30 May 2017.
The Great Wall has generally received mixed reviews.
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