Review of The Great Wall (2016) by Healingtoolbox1 — 08 Apr 2017
Another under-rated genre classic. Do you like Matt Damon sci-fi movies? Do you like Chinese fairy tale movies with over-the-top action? This amalgamation is as good as you are gonna get. Great Wall is NOT trying "to marry its Eastern and Western sensibilities.
" It's clearly trying to make money with a Chinese-USA crossover epic. Fortunately we have Tony Gilroy (Bourne series, Rogue One script and by some accounts much of the direction); and, Ed Zwick of Glory, Defiance, Last Samurai and scores of other intelligent fare, one of my heroes.
The result is everything moving along much better than your average bloated fantasy epic. It doesn't sag and everything looks amazing. If you liked any of the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit movies, you'll like this.
Granted, unlike the best LOTR movies, no character here has any arc; nobody learns anything meaningful. But, same with Rogue One. If we must have movies which are better as video game scripts than as thoughtful, Progressive dramas, then Rogue One and Great Wall are two model successes of videogame movie genre, one Western, one Chinese.
This review of The Great Wall (2016) was written by Healingtoolbox1 on 08 Apr 2017.
The Great Wall has generally received mixed reviews.
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