It works well enough as an action-adventure romp, too, despite its simplistic plotting. Film, and Television (whose new rules come into effect on March 1 st and echo these very themes), all while keeping American. From its swooping, acrobatic camerawork, to the fight scenes unfolding in eye-popping 3D, it’s easy to see where the money has been spent. A spectacular and epic showdown, The Great Wall is a fusion of bilingual cinema plunged into a fantasy world of CGI beauty. THE GREAT WALL Review: Matt Damon Kills Dragons And Individualism.

With a budget of £120m, the English-language debut from Chinese director Zhang Yimou ( House of Flying Daggers, Hero) is the most expensive China-US co-production to date. However, though both are dab hands with a bow, the two fight for different reasons he for food and money, she for trust and honour, a lesson William inevitably learns by the film’s conclusion (perhaps making an oversimplified case for Chinese communism).ĭamon and Pascal are less white saviour figures than they are an entry point for western audiences, presumably cast in an attempt to maximise the crossover between Hollywood and Chinese blockbuster markets. The order are preparing to battle the mythical Tao-Tie – giant, green, lizard-y looking monsters that are resurrected every 60 years to teach the Chinese a lesson about unchecked greed and swarm the wall in their millions.Ĭommander Lin (the film’s sole speaking female character, played by Jing Tian) takes a shine to William, pointing out their similarities. O n the hunt for precious “black powder”, rogue mercenaries William Garin (a grizzled-looking Matt Damon) and Pero Tovar ( Game of Thrones’s Pedro Pascal) are captured by The Nameless Order, an ancient military operation occupying the Great Wall of China.

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