The Great Wall
Pretty Spectacular.
Not Bad at all.
It moves very quickly, which surprised me. It does take away from how epic the movie subject matter feels, I mean the Great Wall of China is a wonder of the universe, and they did not do much to show that, choosing to give a look like they are just dealing with a small section of it, but I’m nick picking. This was a very well done action adventure fantasy type thing.
Plus Matt Damon, once again proves that he’s worth the price of admission. Very charming, very funny and unexpectedly dashing. I never put thought on how much I like or dislike Damon, but I’ll say this, he’s never let me down. Whenever I’ve seen a movie which he starred in I always come away feeling that I made the right decision in picking a movie to see that night.
Damon plays a Spaniard that comes to the east for that black powder, son (AKA gun powder), when he is captured by a cult of warriors that live on the Great Wall protecting the other side from a species of mutant beast trying to get over. (that’s right, mutant! You’ll understand when you see the movie and hear the tale told by great Chinese actor Andy Lau who has a part in the film).
A well put together war movie, The Great Wall celebrates the art, with an interesting visual look on how these warriors protect the wall from these monsters (One cool scene shows how They uses a series of bows that whistle so that a warrior who can not see can still hear the enemy coming). It’s very exciting to watch.
And like I was saying, the monster they show here is quite impressive indeed. It may remind you of monsters you seen before on celluloid (Which makes sense as you don’t want to go too out of what is already in nature), but the design was unique as well as the method of defeating it, which I don’t think I’ve seen before.
Visually, I am a little iffy on the film. Like a said before, The Great Wall sounds epic but the film itself has epic qualities but does not feel so. It feels oddly closed in for an IMAX film. The costumes are great, more specifically, ones worn by the female warriors in the movie. A nice shade of blue and design to pay homage to some bird. It’s not surprising that I like them as they stand out from the rest of the film’s gloomy and gritty look.
Overall, The Great Wall is an action packed war movie with great battles against a bad ass foe.
Round of applause to all who contributed to this film but a special shout out to Matt Damon. So far he’s has never let me down.
