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U/A (INDIA)
2016
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Positive Reviews
28
Negative reviews
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1.5
The narrative doesnt stand up to scrutiny, and has at least two plot holes that are also literal holes.
Av Club
1.5
However, its stupidity doesnt belong to cultural ignorance, which enshrouded its reputation in the months leading up to its release.
Indie Wire
2.5
The Great Wall is like the disaster of 47 Ronin all over again, except the action is a bit more fantastically barbaric and Damon isnt all that bad him ..
We Got This Covered
1.5
What might have been weirdly compelling instead feels barely a cut above an L. Ron Hubbard science fiction novel.
Austin Chronicle
3.0
Matt Damon joins a predominantly Chinese cast in this silly, noisy but generally enjoyable fantasy action flick If the future of Hollywood lies to the ..
Time Out
3.0
Matt Damons Chinese film debut (in English language), is as underwhelming as his last Jason Bourne movie.
ETimes (TOI)
2.0
0 The advertising for The Great Wall made it looks like another white savior story.
Collider
1.0
One thing The Great Wall gets absolutely right is the walliness, because watching it feels like repeatedly banging your head against one.
Telegraph
2.5
The Great Wall looks like it could be a really amazing video game.
JoBlo
2.5
Actually, it was Industrial Light & Magic not the companys best work.
Philly
1.9
Its Chinese pandering pure agitprop packaged as Hollywood poppycock.
Rogers Movie Nation
3.2
10 1 6 / 10 Matt Damon never looked like an action hero, but he managed to become one in the Jason Bourne film series, transforming himself into a kil ..
Blu Ray
2.5
Become a fan on Facebook Follow on Twitter Review by Mark Dujsik | February 16, 2017 There is no lack of spectacle in director Zhang Yimous The Great ..
Mark Reviews Movies
1.9
CLOSE Matt Damon plays a skilled archer battling monstrous creatures to keep them from climbing over the Great Wall of China.
Usa Today
2.0
Two medieval European mercenaries (Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal), in China to steal the secret of gunpowder, find themselves prisoners caught up in a war ..
News Review
2.5
When Universal released The Great Wall back in February, there was a lot of misdirection going on.
Decider
2.5
PLOT In 12th century China, a European soldier helps battle a scourge of monsters.
News Day
3.5
Matt Damon, as a captured western mercenary in 12th century China facing tens of thousands of cannibalistic monsters threatening not just a great fort ..
Film Journal
3.5
And it doesnt help that Matt Damon is confusingly mellow, and not his usual charismatic self this time.
Hindustan Times
2.0
Zhang Yimous new film is a laborious fantasy spectacular crossed with a CGI monster movie, set in the days of Imperial China, in a military garrison o ..
The Guardian
2.5
The Great Wall Isnt, Particularly Enlarge this image toggle caption Jasin Boland /Universal Pictures Jasin Boland /Universal Pictures Opening a few mi ..
Npr
2.8
The Great Wall looks like it could be a really amazing video game.
Ew
2.0
It may be dumb and absolutely predictable, but the visionary chops of its director are on full display, with an unexpectedly high focus on lengthy act ..
Flickering Myth
1.3
Matt Damon fights monsters in Great Wall bomb Matt Damon, with an odd accent, becomes a soldier in China, fighting iguana like monsters the size of a ..
Sf Gate
2.0
Its not just us; his friend, Pero, doesnt get the sudden transformation either.
The New Indian Express
3.5
Mr. Damon, wearing hair extensions and employing an on and off Irish accent, looks uncharacteristically ill at ease during much of this.
The New York Times
4.0
Universal When the city of Beijing was selected to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, China turned to its most internationally renowned film director, Zha ..
Uproxx
1.5
Damon plays William, a rogue who makes the perilous journey to China in search of black powder, a fabled substance that can turn air into fire.
The Atlantic
1.5
The Westerners skill and finesse in archery cannot be dispensed with.
Deccan Chronicle
1.5
Rather The Great Wall is a failure of the imagination, a reliance on a god awful core idea of a fight to the death against supernatural monsters in an ..
Los Angeles Times
3.0
The Box Office: Legendary Pictures and Universal/Comcast Corp.s The Great Wall opens in North America tonight nearly two months after its debut in Chi ..
Forbes
1.5
Why do they only get hungry after 60 years I cant tell you and I suspect Yimou doesnt know either.
Tumblr
2.5
The rise of China as a force to be reckoned with in todays big budget blockbuster film market cannot be underestimated.
Consequence Of Sound
3.1
The Films of Zhang Yimou Red Sorghum Raise the Red Lantern The Story of Qiu Ju To Live Shanghai Triad Keep Cool Not One Less The Road Home Happy Times ..
Reel Film
2.5
great wall damon.jpg Matt Damon is a medieval mercenary no, really in The Great Wall (UNIVERSAL) When Asian American actors were recently complaining ..
Nj
2.5
More of that spirit of innovation would have taken The Great Wall beyond a middling monster flick with a bloated budget and a Hollywood star at the fo ..
The Star
2.2
27 SHARES Facebook Twitter All you really need to know about Zhang Yimous The Great Wall is that theres a moment where Pedro Pascal waves a red cloth ..
The Play List
1.9
by Walter Chaw Gloriously, fantastically stupid from beginning to end, Fifth Generation legend Zhang Yimous The Great Wall is also, you know, not terr ..
Film Freak Central
4.0
REVIEW THE GREAT WALL .With Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe, Andy Lau, Pedro Pascal.
Maki At The Movies
2.5
It may be a second rate Lord of the Rings, but at least it doesnt overstay its welcome.
New York Post
4.5
The Problem with The Great Wall Isnt Whitewashing Can you spot the real hero
The Stranger
3.2
The Great Wall Movie 2016.jpg Matt Damon stars in The Great Wall.
Cleve Land
2.0
The Great Wall is huge in China, and so is the movie of the same name.
Film Racket
1.5
The organizing principle of The Great Wall is Lotslots of Chinese and American money lavished on a remarkably dull spectacle in which lots of medieval ..
Wsj
3.8
The real stars of this film are the Chinese actors. 28 year old Jing Tian is wonderful as a female leader within the Order who commands a strong prese ..
The Film Pie
1.5
The battles are just CG nonsense. Bad CG nonsense. Besides being Lord of the Rings on a budget, whats on screen still feels very random.
Io9 Gizmodo
1.0
Director Zhang Yimou enlists the friendly All American face of Matt Damon to entice multiplex audiences to embrace subtitles, the glories of Chinese c ..
Sandiego Reader
2.0
Zhang Yimous first Hollywood feature feels like it was doomed to mediocrity from the start.
One Room With A View
2.0
This makes for a film thats undeniably tense and about as exciting as action movies get.
Scots Man
2.0
Some mad buggers wall The controversy is dead, dead, dead, and far be it from me to bring it up at this late, but I think the pre release outrage in t ..
Alternate Ending
4.5
IGN reported yesterday that The Great Wall is Matt Damons worst wide release box office opening weekend since 2011 but that the film is one of his bet ..
Lainey Gossip
1.5
The Great Wall is one of the seven wonders of the world. Director Zhang Yimous The Great Wall, however, is not.
Fresh Fiction
2.5
The Great Wall has a clever historical anachronism as its hook: What if a bunch of soldiers with only swords and arrows had to square off with scary, ..
New Republic
1.5
Just because hes a Hispanic guy, doesnt mean you have to have Pedro Pascals character as a Hispanic stereotype where every other line he says ends in ..
Rendy Reviews
5.0
But the truly spectacular result achieved by director Zhang Yimou is more delicious than political pundits and moviegoers deserve in this destabilized ..
National Review
2.5
Matt Damon (second from left) plays a mercenary who helps the Chinese army, whose strategist is played by Andy Lau (third from left), defeat their ene ..
The New Paper
2.0
East is east and west is west and the twain meet up in The Great Wall, a movie apparently designed to be all things to all people.
Toronto Sun
3.1
Its still got brightly colored action sequences youll occasionally cheer.
Hollywood Into To
1.5
The action isnt edited so you can see whats going on, and my 3 D glasses didnt sharpen the picture.
Vulture
2.5
we learn the Great Wall of China was originally erected to protect the Chinese from marauding forces embodying the depths of human greed. Shortly afte ..
Willamette Week
3.0
ADVERTISEMENT The main lesson of Zhang Yimous blockbuster film The Great Wall is that walls particularly great ones dont work.
The Week
2.5
This past weekend, The Great Wall made its US debut in over three thousand theaters across the country.
Geeks Of Color
3.0
The big news: This film isnt nearly as bad as the trailer makes it look.
Pgh City Paper
3.1
The buzz on The Great Wall has been less excitement and more puzzlement and controversy.
Oc Register
3.1
Legend has it, the Great Wall of China can be seen from space. opens with that long shot from orbit, zooming in, swooping over computer generated Asia ..
M Live
2.0
The Great Wall By Daniel Gelb Every 60 years, a swarm of carnivorous, four legged monsters descend on Northern China to punish its people for their pa ..
All Movie
2.5
If youre looking for mindless action and ridiculously cheesy storylines that you can laugh at, then The Great Wall will fill that void.
Smash Cut Reviews
1.3
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The Cinema Phile Blog
3.5
The new movie The Great Wall about a Western mercenary in medieval era China who is captured by Chinese forces for trying to smuggle gunpowder out of ..
Pasadena Weekly
1.5
A Big Crumble: The Great Wall By Elias Savada.So, lets get to the big question youre asking your mirror.
Film International
1.5
Unfortunately, The Great Wall doesnt do anything worth getting all that excited over either, which, despite featuring some entertaining and technicall ..
Ign
3.5
THE GREAT WALL * * * Starring Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Pedro Pascal, Andy Lau and Willem Dafoe.
Spliced Personality
4.5
Its probably mere coincidence, but the movie releases this week feel like a conscious reaction to last weeks big Valentines release, .
S Fist
2.0
It messed with our lawn care schedules because it messed with our springtime.
Star Telegram
2.0
Universal Pictures/Historical Fantasy/103 minutes In this divisive age, when countries are turning inward with a nationalist, xenophobic fervor, its c ..
Cine Gods
1.5
The Westerners skill and finesse in archery cannot be dispensed with.
Asianage
1.5
With razor thin characters, shamelessly cliched plotting and some dreadful CGI, there is almost nothing worth remembering in this cross cultural affro ..
Silver Screen Riot
4.0
LOUISA: LOUISA SAYS: I know you wont believe it, but The Great Wall is actually quite enjoyable.
Screen Zealots
3.0
Its no secret that Hollywood has taken to making films with one eye planted firmly on the global box office.
The Maine Edge
2.5
Heres a mediocre movie thats actually a lot more fun to unpack as a pop culture moment than it is to watch but, then its also actually pretty fun to w ..
Geek
1.5
Chinas largest and most iconic landmark never felt so diminutively small as it does in Yimou Zhangs English language debut The Great Wall.
Cinematic Considerations
2.8
The B movie is a tricky thing.The name came when people used to go see double headers.
Rachel's Reviews
4.5
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