Perhaps the film was shot in Burbank, like the moon landing. Some of the vistas look computer-generated, too. The action isn’t edited so you can see what’s going on, and my 3-D glasses didn’t sharpen the picture. His pictures usually have a much cleaner palette, though - I don’t think he has ever had to contend with this much CG. In the event you don’t know, wuxia books and movies features martial-arts heroes in ancient China, and The Great Wall’s director, Zhang Yimou, made a couple of the greatest ever: Hero (2002) and House of Flying Daggers (2004). (Amazingly enough, the story is credited to Max Brooks, Edward Zwick, and Marshall Herskovitz.) I guess they watched a lot of wuxia movies and internalized the bad subtitles. The beast fell back into the chasm.” Much of the dialogue sounds like it’s badly translated from Mandarin, but the writers are all American. The Nameless don’t believe one man alone could kill a Tao Tei, so Garin recounts the story: “A swing of the sword,” he says. No one says, “Winter is coming,” but that’s the gist. The denizens of the fortress are called the Nameless Order and train for 60 years in anticipation of the next Tao Tei uprising. Maybe they just inferred it from feeding upon humanity.
(“What God made those things?” “None that we know.”) The Tao Tei live in Jade Mountain and - I’m reading from my press notes -“rise every 60 years to feed upon humanity and punish mankind’s greed.” I don’t remember how they know it’s because of mankind’s greed. The beast turns out to be something called a Tao Tei and it’s like a combination reptile and rat with a helmet-head out of Alien. In the first sequence, William kills a giant creature we can’t quite see (it’s not clear if this is by design or ineptitude) and, along with his comic-relief Spaniard pal, Tovar (Pedro Pascal), carries its severed limb to a nearby fortress behind the Great Wall. He plays a mercenary named William Garin, who’s either English or Irish - I think Irish. But there’s something modest about Damon’s demeanor that lets him get by. It’s rarely a good idea for white stars to make movies in China in which they save the world with their fighting skills while hordes of Chinese (whose collective salaries don’t equal the star’s) fall by the wayside. As an A-list international movie star, he can be a secret agent, an astronaut on Mars, or a fearless warrior in medieval China. For a while I wondered if he made this movie because he had gambling debts and the Triad was holding his family hostage, but then it hit me that he made it because he could. (Try sitting through Zoolander 2 and tell me how bad The Great Wall is.) It’s fun to watch Matt Damon try not to look or sound like Matt Damon, dropping his voice half an octave, sucking in his gut, affecting a manly stoicism. Yes, it’s terrible, but it’s lavishly, generously terrible, and even at its worst it isn’t painful - unlike, say, the list of finalists for this year’s Razzie awards. A long, ancient wall has to be defended - come hell or high water - against creatures that can perpetuate unfathomable horrors.If you don’t love The Great Wall, we don’t have much to talk about.
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The music by Ramin Djawadi blends well with the narrative, but lacks the memorable quality that his work has achieved with Game of Thrones, speaking of which, the central idea is uncannily similar to the TV series’ section on the wall in the north. The film does slightly well in the technical department: the visuals and special effects are engaging (though not extraordinarily spectacular). Commander Lin (Jing Tian) must enlist the help of her prisoners to kill the Taotei Queen, and at the same time, school our protagonist in the virtues of Chinese culture and philosophy, thereby humbling him and setting him on a righteous path.
The two are captured and brought to a military division, called the Nameless Order, at the Great Wall, which is now under siege by a horde of these green monsters - the Taotei - who resurface every 60 years to purge the empire of human greed.
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