Every major aspect of their behaviour - such as their main vulnerability and communication methods - comes across as shoehorned in, designed to provide a sledgehammer-blatant path for the heroes to follow to overcome them. The vicious Tao Teis aren’t much more memorable, despite being impressively rendered and bred from the usual Lord Of The Rings/Games Workshop monster farm - the only significant design twists being Chinese-style designs on their foreheads and having eyes on their shoulders. A conversation about his past comes across as a tacked-on attempt to make him seem dark and set up his potential redemption but really, he’s not whitewashing he’s just grey-dull. William is not presented as a white knight, rather a mercenary caught in the chaos. These are more cause for complaint than the “whitewashing” Damon’s casting supposedly represents. Instead, Chinese cultural clichés abound, from speeches about working together to help the greater cause to Olympic-level gymnastics. The film was trailed as a cultural mash-up but, being set and filmed in China, the casting of Damon, Pedro Pascal and Willem Dafoe (whose character, Ballard, seems there purely to explain how Commander Lin learned English) is the only element representing the West.
Via a witheringly lazy plot device - a guard has lost the key to a cell - they end up getting caught up in the combat.
William and his fellow fighter-for-hire Tovar (Pedro Pascal) are poking around the Chinese border in search of valuable “black powder” when they run into an army deployed on the Great Wall to defend China from monsters. Because of their refusal to do so, Trump sent the ever-reliable Matt Damon and Oberyn Martell to negotiate with the Mexicans, starring Andy Lau and some Asian actors and actresses. Matt Damon plays William, a mercenary soldier whose accent suggests he’s from Ireland, or has at least spent a lot of time swigging Guinness in Irish bars. The movie was about the Great Wall that President Donald Trump wants Mexico to build. It’s also the most epic project fêted Chinese director Zhang Yimou has taken on since he directed the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, as well as his first English-language film. It is the biggest-ever China-Hollywood co-production, the most expensive film shot entirely in China, and arrives at a time when the global industry is increasingly facing towards the East.
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I strongly suggest that you don't waste your money and time to learn how to lower your I.Q., just use the ticket fare to buy a triple-deck cheese burger with supersized French fries, that'd be your better and smarter choices.As is perhaps fitting for a film based onĪ 13,000-mile-long stone structure, The Great Wall bears a huge weight of expectation. This film also transpired me from an die-hard Atheist to a God-believing person since I kept murmuring " is so bad." That's how bad this film is. it was just bad, bad, bad.so bad that my neck suffered a very painful sprain over my shoulder blades, because I couldn't help myself from shaking my head horizontally. The idea to use the Great Wall as the battlefield was another bad idea. The screen play was hollow, shallow, pointless, meaningless and pointless. Director Zhang should be forced into retirement after this shameful product, and signed up Matt Damon was another blind decision, because such cast was totally unnecessary. The overly used CGI visual effects in it was not just bad but ugly. I don't even know how to describe it, because it's not an ordinary bad film, it's a joke! The absurdity of the Chinese movie industries has reached a critical level. This film is the champion baddest film of 2016.