Visually splendid from top to bottom, this epic adventure squeaks by on its looks and spares no expense to make sure of that.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2024

With a ponytail and dodgy accent, Damon fits awkwardly into the mix, putting in one of the most uneven performances of his career. The fact a Western actor is leading an Asian film should be uncomfortable, but in a film this bad, its hard to care.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 21, 2022

The Great Wall is the equivalent of a well-made toy movie. It's a feast for the imagination, but your heart and brain will check out after a while.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2021

All in all, it's just another brick in the wall of cinematic stinkers.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 17, 2021

The best-looking stupid movie you'll see all year.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 10, 2021

Feels more like an exercise in marketing than it does a movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 4, 2021

Sadly, the film's fiery energy is undermined by the general cartoonishness and emptiness of the script and the characters

| Feb 22, 2021

The Great Wall is similarly superficial in its political themes...

| Dec 23, 2020

Perhaps more interesting than the end result is the production itself, which set a record for being the most expensive movie shot entirely in China.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 5, 2020

If you happen to catch it on a streaming service and need to recover from a hangover with bright colors and a plot you don't need to pay too much attention to, this film will fit the bill.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2020

Lots of things look fake in The Great Wall: creatures, explosions, even the wall itself. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 2, 2020

This movie was in some ways like Mulan meets Alien Dinosaurs.

| May 11, 2020

It wasn't quite a good time.

| May 11, 2020

It's just strange and bold, and I happen to love that combination. So if you're feeling a bit adventurous and in need of something different, it doesn't get much different than this one.

| May 4, 2020

The Great Wall is massive and so is everything, but the actors. They are normal size in this film.

| Sep 6, 2019

Overall this mostly delivered on my pretty low expectations.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2019

The Great Wall had all the elements to be a terrific film - good cast, great pictures, and a hefty budget. Sadly... it isn't so great.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 12, 2019

If you're looking for mindless action and ridiculously cheesy storylines that you can laugh at, then The Great Wall will fill that void.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 7, 2019

If you've already written The Great Wall off as 1) a horrible premise for a film and 2) another in a long line of embarrassing White Savior movies, you're not entirely wrong.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2019

The story and characters are threadbare, the action scenes vary between pretty and unbelievable and the tone is all over the map.

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | May 22, 2019