After traveling to china in search of black powder a band of european mercenaries are captured by. The great wall of china is not a conventional story, with a clear sense of narrative or plot progression. Jul 28, 2016 the video game dishonored 2, the second season of narcos on netflix, the great wall, the sequel to the kingsman, and a show called gods equation, which has this juicy logline. Produced by amazon studios, it was released on may 12, 2017 by roadside attractions. The question is does this movie get around this cliched plot and give us. Feb 21, 2017 alexander the great all parts duration. It was dynamic, the computer graphics and cgi was amazing and overall was an absolutely fun movie to watch. The film follows two american soldiers aaron taylorjohnson and john cena trapped by an iraqi sniper. It is the biggestever chinahollywood coproduction, the most expensive film shot entirely in china, and. The great wall is a wonderfully enjoyable movie with genuine edge of your seat action sequences and a great plot which is easy to follow. The film will be produced by thomas tull, chuck roven, jon jashni, richard suckle. Feb 16, 2017 the great wall would probably be a lot more culturally. The great wall reveals the mystery behind why the great wall was built, and the secrets hidden beneath its stones.
With the great wall, hollywood has made whitewashing. They are imprisoned in the great wall and meet the european ballard, also a mercenary looking for black powder who has been imprisoned in the great wall for twentyfive years. A swift, funny monster movie julian roman feb 16, 2017. Jing tian, pedro pascal, willem dafoe and andy lau also star in this sweeping epic. A great wall is about the sort of visit i imagine most of us would like to make, back to the people and the ways of life where we, or our ancestors, came from.
Sinopsis film the great wall bercerita tentang peristiwa yang terjadi pada abad ke 15 yang berpusat pada sebuah misteri di sekitar pembangunan tembok besar china sepanjang 5500 mil. The great wall moves across fortified landscapes, pausing with those whose lives are framed by borders. We have 18 questions and answers about matt damons great. C such is the premise of zhang yimous stupidly awesome the great wall, a 3d nationalist fantasy that follows two smelly medieval europeans as they trek east with the plan of. Starring global superstar matt damon and directed by one of the most breathtaking visual stylists of our time, zhang yimou hero, house of flying daggers, the great wall tells the story of an elite force making a valiant stand for humanity on the worlds most iconic structure. Great wall the screenplay, credited to six writers including max brooks, tony gilroy and edward zwick, is more hole than plot, and sounds like an 1980s actionfigure cartoon. In ancient china, a group of european mercenaries encounters a secret army that maintains and defends the great wall of china against a horde of monstrous creatures. It has protected the city from many dangers, some of which are known, and others that are legend. What if the great wall of china were actually built as a defense against a colony of spiketoothed, greenblooded sauroid aliens that crashed into inner mongolia on a meteorite sometime around the eighth century b. With matt damon, tian jing, willem dafoe, andy lau. Two days ride north of the great wall, sometime during the song dynasty, william garin and pero tovarsurvivors of a small mercenary group. The great wall is een amerikaanschinese actie en avonturenfantasyfilm uit 2016, geregisseerd door zhang yimou. The full title of this cultureclash drama was originally the great wall is a great wall.
The great wall crumbles mainly because of its wholly predictable plot. After traveling to china in search of black powder a band of. The great white hope, matt damon, saves china in the bizarre fantasyaction film the great wall. Dec, 2014 sinopsis film the great wall bercerita tentang peristiwa yang terjadi pada abad ke 15 yang berpusat pada sebuah misteri di sekitar pembangunan tembok besar china sepanjang 5500 mil. He rents a house in the west egg district of long island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich, a group who have made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who are prone to garish displays of wealth. The great wall, funded by legendary, china film group, and universal pictures was an attempt at a joint production between chinese and american talent. The great wall 2017 trailer a dramatic look at the construction of the great wall of china, with a twist involving the need for humans to defend against the mongols and something inhuman that. Everything you need to know about the great wall movie. The great wall is a great wall 1986 plot summary imdb. Everything you need to know about the great wall movie 2017. The great wall is a historical fantasy epic that is. Moving inward toward the seat of power, the film holds the european project up to a dazzling cinematic light, refracted through kafkas mysterious text.
Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. The great wall follows william and tovar, european mercenaries who arrived in china for black powder a dangerous weapon that is being kept behind the great wall. Setiba di china, kelompok prajurit ini diserang oleh. There were 11 other movies released on the same date, including a cure for wellness, fist fight and land of mine. Matt damon greeted fans in beijing as he arrived at a redcarpet event for the movie the great wall. In this actionfantasy epic set in 11th century china, two mercenaries from the west matt damon and pedro pascal are captured by a military organization that are headquartered in a fortress on the great wall. Damon and pascal play william and tovar, respectively, wandering european mercenaries who are captured by the chinese army of the nameless order shortly after they slay a mysterious green monster. The great wall proves to be very entertaining and much more humorous than expected. It spans over 5,500 miles and took over 1,700 years to build.
Starring matt damon one of my favourite actors and a stellar cast of chinese actors. Matt damon calls the great wall backlash a fckin bummer. Click on image to view official trailer captions by eric alagan synopsis. The great wall would probably be a lot more culturally. The great wall 2016 yi mou zhang, zhang yimou synopsis. Wang himself stars as leo fang, a san francisco computer engineer who decides to move his family to china in search of his roots. The first englishlanguage production for yimou is the largest film ever shot entirely in china. Feb, 2017 a,000milelong stone structure, the great wall bears a huge weight of expectation.
Seorang prajurit yang merupakan bagian dari sekelompok tentara bayaran yang dikirim ke china untuk membawa pulang mesiu ke eropa. The great wall isnt really a chinese movie, and its not quite an american one either. It is an americanchinese coproduction starring matt damon, jing tian, pedro pascal, willem dafoe, and andy lau. Mar 02, 2017 the great wall is a wonderfully enjoyable movie with genuine edge of your seat action sequences and a great plot which is easy to follow. True, when squarejawed matt damon fights alien monsters sidebyside with chinese soldiers, the film sometimes feels like a spectacular bigbudget action epic with a goldenage westernstyle hero. A new trailer for the great wall just came out, starring matt damon as a member of an elite force fighting for humanity on the iconic wall in china. Nick carraway, a young man from minnesota, moves to new york in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. S a beloved chinese director zhang, a hollywood movie star damon, and a. A great wall is a human comedy about a chineseamerican family that goes to visit relatives in peking, and within that simple premise are so many inspirations that the movie is interesting even when its just looking at things. Tian jing in the great wall 2016 the great wall 2016 matt damon and pedro pascal in the. Oct 08, 2016 starring global superstar matt damon and directed by one of the most breathtaking visual stylists of our time, zhang yimou hero, house of flying daggers, legendarys the great wall tells the.
The great wall movie is one of those monster flicks that starts abruptly without offering you any perspective. Starring global superstar matt damon and directed by one of the most breathtaking visual stylists of our time, zhang yimou hero, house of flying daggers, legendarys the great wall tells. European mercenaries, including irishman william garin and spaniard pero tovar, travel to china during the reign of the song. The great wall also stars jing tian, pedro pascal, willem dafoe and andy lau. The first american production to be shot in red china, the film was produced and directed by peter wang. The great wall was conceived with seemingly foolproof elements to appeal to crowds in both china and the u.
Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing the great wall 2017 near you. Instead, its a massively expensive film with loose elements of both, borne with boxoffice ambitions. While escaping with the hand of the monster, they stumble upon the great wall and are captured by general shao, commander lin mae, strategist wang and their army. Due to violent scenes and deaths of several established characters, we feel this movie is appropriate for kids aged nine and over. We have 18 questions and answers about matt damons. The film was directed by a bigtime chinese director, zhang yimou, and starred hollywood stars matt damon and willem defoe alongside chinese film stars in an attempt to capture chinese audiences. The story line is consistent, the characters are fluid, there may be some cliches but what the hell, even star wars had a few. The great wall 2017 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Matt damon stars in a laborious historical fantasy, doing battle with cgi monsters in order. The great wall was released in 2017 on friday, february 17, 2017 in nationwide movie theaters. Matt damon battles monsters, blockbusteraudience boredom bourne star and an international cast take on giant 12thcentury beasties in d.
C such is the premise of zhang yimous stupidly awesome the great wall, a 3d nationalist fantasy that follows two smelly medieval europeans as they trek east with the. The wall is a 2017 american war thriller film directed by doug liman and written by dwain worrell. Although the father of the american family, leo fang, was born in china, he left when he was 10. In time, the duo get caught up in a battle between the chinese warriors and a supernatural menace that the great wall was built to repel. Rather, it is written as the musings of a nameless narrator who took part in the. The movie somehow doesnt even get the great wall of china right. The east lobs a blockbusterhopeful to the west with the. Starring global superstar matt damon and directed by one of the most breathtaking visual stylists of our time, zhang yimou hero, house of.
The video game dishonored 2, the second season of narcos on netflix, the great wall, the sequel to the kingsman, and a show called gods equation, which has this juicy logline. Chineseamerican coproduced actionfantasy the great wall doesnt feel like a mcdonaldsified version of a chinese film. Matt damon looks to join great wall of china movie. Yes, it provides for a few cool moments, but the wall never feels like the historical stronghold its supposed to be. But the makers of the great wall succeed where many. We would likely discover what the fangs discover, that you cant go home again. The monster, they are told, is a tei tao, one of a horde of creatures that attacks the nowfamous great wall of china once every 60 years. You wont be disappointed, this is a solid action and bonafide scifi thriller with lots of fire breathing and eyegoaging monster gore. The film opens on khitan bandits riding through the desert. European mercenaries william garin matt damon and pero tovar pedro pascal hide out in a cave along with three other men. Matt damon greeted fans in beijing as he arrived at a redcarpet event. Why matt damons the great wall became a great big bomb. A mystery centered around the construction of the great wall of china.
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