What a waste of my time!!!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

The Great Wall: Matt Damon ventures to China in search of the secrets of gunpowder, but meets a monster and ends up defending the Great Wall against hordes of beasties looking like hyena-raptor hybrids. An Alternate-History where every 60 years the creatures would attack and attempt to breach the Wall.Well imagined monsters, there's a homage to Aliens in one scene, great costume and weapon design, steam punk without the steam, hot-air assault balloons which are really giant Chinese Lanterns. Seems to be Fantasy but pay close attention and you will spot a possible SF explanation for the monsters. 8/10.

I love epic movies. I love Matt Damon. Simple mathematics. This movie is intensely entertaining. So what if the Great Wall was just a CGI. It would be like blasphemous to shoot a film in one of the world's greatest tourist attraction anyway. The edgy General Lin I also love. And oh, did I mention that Lu Han of EXO is also another reason to watch this movie? What's not to love. Watch this movie. It's sad that critics are expecting too much from a fantasy movie like this. Hello.

When I first watched the ad on TV, I couldn't see anything classic about it, which I think should have been more than it's shown, except that it was about The Great Wall. Anything about it must have been historical. The dress is too futuristic, the colors are too bright for AD 1010-63. Well, I wasn't sure about the colors people used at that time, though, but I don't think they know a lot about the variants of color at that time. It was a very long time ago, right? Maybe just black, white or brown? So, this movie is about the search of gunpowder by European mercenaries but they were ambushed by legendary monsters who tried to go through the Great Wall to invade the palace. These monsters have something to do with a curse from the Gods because the King was so greedy. My question is, why the monsters really look like the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park? It's funny how they communicate through the signals on their heads. This movie was supposed to be epic but mostly I found this movie to be amusing. It's just lack of Yimou's touch even though it was directed by him. I've watched his two movies which are so great, historical, and so Chinese (I'm sorry if it's a wrong term). But this one is too futuristic for me.

Loved, loved, loved this fun colorful mostly Chinese, cinematography wonder!!! Leave ur judgement and expectations at the door and enjoy the spectacle and beautiful symmetry of the huge army and The Great Wall!!!!