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However, despite critic reviews, the film is still highly anticipated by global audiences. Variety's review of the film hasn't been kind either, pointing out the flaws in the film such as a lack of well-developed characters and a rigid performance from the lead actress. In this post from a UK moviegoer who watched the film in Shanghai, the reviewer said he was disappointed by the story yet acknowledged the visuals and action scenes. The Great Wall currently has a 5.6/10 from 245 netizens on Western movie site IMDB, with only one netizen posting a review. Setting aside, the core of The Great Wall is typically Hollywood: A big name director and famous actors and actresses, exciting action scenes, and most of all, a story about a lost man finally finding real meaning in life and a nobody becoming a hero. While the film has a relatively high grade of 7.3/10 on Mtime, it only holds a 5.3/10 on Douban, a site that attracts more critics and industry insiders. This split in opinions between critics and general audiences is reflected on two of China's major film websites Mtime and Douban. I never thought a Chinese film could look like a Hollywood blockbuster." "I felt it was still exciting after I watched the film for a second time," Wang Youshi, 22, a college student told the Global Times on Saturday. Cheng Qingsong - chief editor of Youth Film Handbook magazine and the organizer of The Golden Broom awards, which sarcastically awards the worst movies of the year - called The Great Wall the champion of the awards. " The Great Wall is a collapsed work," Ye Xindai, a domestic critic said in a long critique of the film posted on Wechat.
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"A large scale Olympic gymnastics show" is what most Chinese critics have been calling The Great Wall, referring to the fact that the film's director Zhang Yimou also directed the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympic Games. Discovering that the troop's true mission is to defend China from invading monsters known as Taotie and influenced by the soldiers' selflessness, Garin decides to stay and fight together with them. However, the two are captured by the Nameless Order, a Chinese troop garrisoned at the Great Wall. Set in ancient China, The Great Wall follows two Western mercenaries William Garin (Matt Damon) and Pero Tovar (Pedro Pascal) who plan to steal a sample of gunpowder to take back to the West. One thing happy surprise was the film's ability to fuse Chinese elements in a rather natural way compared to other joint productions in the past. It is, in my opinion, a film that has been carefully tailored to be a blockbuster popcorn flick. To be honest, I can't say The Great Wall is a splendid work that everyone must see, but it is not that bad either. While it seems that The Great Wall may come as a ray of light in what has been a gloomy film market this year, opinions towards the film have been divided.īearing the various negative reactions in mind, I saw the film on its second day of release. As of Sunday morning, The Great Wall has brought in a total of 365.68 million yuan. The Chinese fantasy-action film topped Friday's mainland box office with opening day earnings of 107.94 million yuan ($15.52 million) - more than five times that of the runner-up The Wasted Times, another Chinese film that premiered the same day. Promotional material for The Great Wall Photo: ICMatt Damon's latest work The Great Wall was once the center of controversy over allegations of whitewashing, but not that the film has hit Chinese mainland theaters on Friday attention has shifted. Promotional material for The Great Wall Photo: IC