Weekend Film Reviews

The Great Wall

There is no lack of spectacular sequences in The Great Wall. It's the most expensive movie ever produced in China, with fancy weaponry that's meant to show how technologically advanced the Inner Kingdom was.

By Joe Morgenstern • Feb 18, 2017 • 3m Listen

The organizing principle of The Great Wall is lots -- lots of Chinese and American money lavished on a remarkably dull spectacle with lots of medieval Chinese soldiers, plus a European mercenary played by Matt Damon.

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Weekend Film Reviews

The Great Wall

There is no lack of spectacular sequences in The Great Wall. It's the most expensive movie ever produced in China, with fancy weaponry that's meant to show how technologically advanced the Inner Kingdom was.

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Weekend Film Reviews

The Great Wall

There is no lack of spectacular sequences in The Great Wall. It's the most expensive movie ever produced in China, with fancy weaponry that's meant to show how technologically advanced the Inner Kingdom was.

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