4/10/2017 1 Comment The great wallI've been hesitated for a long time, thinking about should I see this movie. The great wall is a really compliated movie, and for that I mean it's really controversial in the international filming industry. Technically, the great wall is not a Hollywood movie; it's a Chinese movie with a Hollywood production crew and production company(for the purpose of being international). This movie came out in China first, then America, and it received many different movie critics. I payed close attention to the reviews of this movie in both American movie review websites and Chinese movie review websites. Most American movie websites talked about whether this movie is a good movie from the perspective of making a film; However, the Chinese websites spent more focus on the topic that can this movie represent China in the international film industry. My own opinion of this movie is that this is a great try, and it has more business value than its "movie" value.
The story is simply and straight-forward: Two foreign soldiers came to China in order to find the mysterious "black powder", a secret weapon that has great power(it's real in ancient China). But unluckily, they got captured by a group of secret army who served on one of the world seven wonders: the great wall, and found out this army is fighting a tons of green aliens to protect China(this is not real, or maybe it is?). First thing I'd like to mention is that the secret army of China looks like power rangers, and I believe that's where the director, Yimou Zhang got his idea from. Secondly, many Chinese critics thought that letting some strange foreigners(sorry Matt Damon) save China is probably the dumbest idea ever. In this movie, Matt Damon is a foreign mercenary with some mad archery skills, and I think that's the only reason why he is the "hero" in this movie, or maybe it's just because he is white. So, what about that Chinese secret army? In one scene where they capture Matt Demon and that awesome guy from games of thrones, about 15 soldiers shooting arrows like 10 arrows per second and made those arrows form a circle to trap Matt Demon and that awesome guy form games of thrones inside. Can we let that soldiers be the heroes in this movie? No, because they're not Matt Demon. I understand the idea of letting Matt Demon be the leading role is to gain American audience in the theatre, but to achieve that goal, they need a better reason to let Demon to be that guy who can save China. Also, the ending of the movie is very much like what they did in "Star Trek: Beyond", but I'm not gonna spoiler here, lol. Yimou Zhang is consider a visual director in China, he is the one who directed the 2008 Olympic opening and closing ceremony in Beijing. In this movie, you can see many of his fantastic shots of the great wall, the secret army fighting and Matt Demon being a cool dude. The CGI in this movie is great but not convincing enough, which brought a question: why every time a Chinese movie claims that they have a Hollywood CGI crew, the CGI does not look like it's from Hollywood? Don't gave me wrong, the special effect in the great wall is probably 10 times better than the other "Hollywood CGI" Chinese movie, but it still looks nothing like King Kong or Godzilla. Even I'm a little disappoint about the CGI is not good enough, I still have to admit that there is progress, and maybe that's what matter to this film. Like I mentioned before, this movie is a great try in the Chinese movie industry. I'm happy to see China is getting closer and closer to Hollywood, and for those people who does not like this movie base on the concept other than the story itself, I would say be patient, it will get better.
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May 2017
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