The Great Wall 2016 123movies

Watch: The Great Wall 2016 123movies, Full Movie Online – When a mercenary warrior (Matt Damon) is imprisoned within the Great Wall, he discovers the mystery behind one of the greatest wonders of the world. As wave after wave of marauding beasts besiege the massive structure, his quest for fortune turns into a journey toward heroism as he joins a huge army of elite warriors to confront the unimaginable and seemingly unstoppable force..
Plot: European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
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Ratings:

	5.9/10 Votes: 137,208
	35% | RottenTomatoes
	42/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 4455 Popularity: 50.289 | TMDB

Reviews:

I suuuuuper don’t care.

This looks like an advertisement for a brand I wouldn’t bother buying.

_Final rating:★½: – Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible._

This is a movie that made me soooo happy that I decided to jump and fork out some money (way too much actually, I’m on a bread and water diet now) for a nice OLED screen. This movie is a stunning visual adventure.

The two main characters are described as mercenary warriors but the terms thieves and rascals are probably better suited. They do know how to fight though and they get plenty of opportunity to prove it in the menu.

This is another one of those movies that live and die by the visuals. The plot is a basic enough adventure story with some additional twists, like mysterious meteorites and really really nasty monsters, thrown in. It is not bad but not exactly groundbreaking either. The same with the characters. They are perhaps not exactly flat but not really fantastic either. What makes the movie great is the action and the visuals. The story and the characters are just there to prop the visuals up and they are doing a perfectly adequate job of it.

The movie starts off in a rather dry and deserted landscape. The first scenes are actually rather dark and somewhat blurry. Luckily we rather quickly arrive at The Great Wall and the colors explode onto the screen. The Chinese army in their shining colored armor is really visually impressive.

It does not take very long for the action to start and apart from the usual arrow flinging, acrobatic stabbing and slashing the Chinese army starts to deploy their various contraptions for fighting the oncoming swarm of nasty creatures. I found all the things that they had cooked up quite fascinating and contributing nicely to the visuals and the fun.

For example, bungee jumping into a hord of jumping and snapping monsters wanting to take a (huge) bit of you armed with a spear. Is that cool or what? Heck, I want to do that. Well, without the monsters of course … and the bungee part. Okay, I confess, I was just watching the girls. Did I mention that all the bungee jumpers where hot chicks? And if any of you go all feminist and gender crap on me for those remarks you can shove it somewhere. If you think the bungee jumping stuff sounds like I was watching a silly comedy then trust me, it makes sense … kind of … in the context of this movie at least.

Then there are rotating knifes sticking out of slits in the wall, fireball throwing catapults, various applications of gunpowder (that was after all why the two scoundrels where there in the first place) etc. etc. All accompanied by various acrobatics by the different combattants. Each scene was both cool action and a great symphony of elegance and colors.

The one part of the movie that I thought was a bit of a letdown was the parts where the emperor of China appeared. Why portray him as an arrogant, lazy thundering idiot? It is really not funny. The chain of events that he caused could really had been started in a more intelligent way without going down that overused and boring route.

The movie works itself forward to a nice final, desperate, fight to defeat the monster queen and her hord of baddies. It is a nice fight, as visually stunning as the rest of the movie, filled with lots of stunts of all kinds. The huge hords of beasts climbing, jumping and moving in big patterns on command from the queen was really cool.

For me this was one hour and forty minutes of much enjoyment.

Not a masterpiece for sure, yet enjoyable
If you don’t have any expectations, this film might surprise you a bit. I really liked the special effects, even if I started laughing when I first saw the antagonists.

Most scenes between battles were quite awkward, full of clichés. Yet, once the battle begins, any cliché this film might have is really fun to watch and not at all annoying.

What I hated the most was the unfortunate English accent… used during the Song dynasty (960-1279).

Overall, the plot is quite linear and simple and is centered around one important moment. Character development was welcoming, but not impressive and definitely not unexpected. The best part was not fulfilling the love sub-plot, even though I half expected this and I would have been really disappointed if it had happened.

Anyway, it was an enjoyable film with better 3D effects than I expected and many other films, so give it a try. But be open minded and admire what is to be admired.

A good balance of East and West
First of all this is a movie about fighting monsters – not a fact based historical epic. So don’t take it that seriously and you’ll have an okay time. The great wall is the center of a fight against some invading dragon dinosaur like creatures.

There have been criticisms of having a white hero in the lead role. But it’s just a monster movie so take it easy. There should have been more of the “saving” done by Chinese characters but to be fair they did make the white people look scruffy and the Chinese ones pretty/handsome. Matt Damon does look kind of short and puffy here compared to the Chinese cast. Liked Pedro Pascal the excellent detective Pena from Narcos as Matt’s partner in crime. Tian Jing is a feisty enough female commander. So all is fair race wise in this war.

Overall there is a good balance between East and West. A Western screenplay by Max Brooks keeps things going quickly without the irritating self sacrifice and slow dialog of the recent Jackie Chan Adrien Brody movie. Director Zhang Yimou is known for extravaganzas and sometimes the action does look circus acrobat like. But it’s not too bad – the excessive slow motion deaths and explosions that plague some Chinese movies isn’t such a problem here.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 150000000
Revenue 331957105
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Director Yimou Zhang
Writer Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Tony Gilroy
Actors Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe
Country United States, China, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada
Awards 3 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Auro 11.1, Dolby Atmos (Dolby Atmos+Vision), Dolby Digital (Dolby Atmos), 12-Track Digital Sound (IMAX 12 track), IMAX 6-Track, Sonics-DDP, Dolby Surround 7.1, DTS (DTS: X)
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa 65, Arri Prime 65 and Zeiss Vintage 765 Lenses, Arri Alexa Mini, Hawk V-Plus and Zeiss Master Anamorphic Lenses, Arri Alexa XT, Hawk V-Plus, Zeiss Master Anamorphic, Angenieux Optimo and Optimo A2S Lenses, Red Epic Dragon, Hawk V-Plus and Zeiss Master Anamorphic Lenses, Red Weapon Dragon, Hawk V-Plus and Zeiss Master Anamorphic Lenses
Laboratory Bling Digital (dailies), FotoKem Creative Services (35mm film laboratory) (2D & 3D digital intermediate), FotoKem Laboratory, Burbank (CA), USA (35mm film laboratory) (2D & 3D digital intermediate) (as FotoKem Creative Services)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Codex, Redcode RAW (6K)
Cinematographic Process ARRIRAW (3.4K) (6.5K) (source format), Digital Intermediate (4K) (master format), Dolby Vision, Hawk Scope (anamorphic) (source format), Master Scope (anamorphic) (source format), Redcode RAW (6K) (source format)
Printed Film Format D-Cinema (also 3-D version)