Granted, unlike the best LOTR movies, no character here has any arc nobody learns anything meaningful. The first The Great Wall trailer has arrived just in time to be paired with Jason Bourne, showing Matt Damon fighting monsters in ancient China. Lavishly epic sci-fi action flick set at China's Great Wall with Damon a tad miscast as a gung-ho mercenary who unwittingly finds himself at the edifice preparing battle against a rampaging horde of monstrous beasts hellbent. If you liked any of the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit movies, you'll like this. THE GREAT WALL (2017) 1/2 Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe, Andy Lau, Pedro Pascal, Hanyu Zhang, Lu Han, Kenny Lin. It doesn't sag and everything looks amazing. The result is everything moving along much better than your average bloated fantasy epic. After traveling to China in search of black powder a band of European mercenaries are captured by. Baca about the possibility of creating a mural in the flood control channel as part of a beautification. The LEGO Batman Movie squares of against The Great Wall, Fist Fight and A Cure For Wellness at the box office this weekend. The great white hope, Matt Damon, saves China in the bizarre fantasy-action film The Great Wall. Fortunately we have Tony Gilroy (Bourne series, Rogue One script and by some accounts much of the direction) and, Ed Zwick of Glory, Defiance, Last Samurai and scores of other intelligent fare, one of my heroes. In 1974, the Army Corps of Engineers contacted Judith F. Great Wall is NOT trying "to marry its Eastern and Western sensibilities." It's clearly trying to make money with a Chinese-USA crossover epic. Do you like Matt Damon sci-fi movies? Do you like Chinese fairy tale movies with over-the-top action? This amalgamation is as good as you are gonna get. 8.0 8.1 The Great Wall Actress Jing Tian Joins Cast For Pacific Rim 2 Film 9.0 9. Great Wall is NOT trying "to marry its Eastern and Western sensibilities." It's clearly trying to Another under-rated genre classic. Since as early as July 2016, news outlets reported that Scott Eastwod was 'in talks' with the production of the sequel for a 'key role' in the film.