Out of the two foreigners, William Garin is the most distinguished. It is assumed they want gunpowder as the white folks of the West are desperate for it. Random white westerners William Garin (Matt Damon) and Tovar (Pedro Pascal) are captured by the Chinese military and brought to the other side of the wall as prisoners. The audience doesn’t know why these creatures are there, where they come from, or what they want, but there are hundreds of thousands of them, and they want whatever is on the other side of the wall. These creatures have sonographic abilities which they use to communicate with each other. The danger of The Great Wall are these monsters with a hive mentality.

Shouldn’t a larger budget allow more time to work on perfecting the CGI? How many Adobe-editing programs did they use to get these monsters to look as fake and silly as they do? Zhang Yimou should stick to martial arts dramas because he is out of his element with The Great Wall. I’m not sure what I expected, but I certainly wasn’t expecting the Silk Road version of Edge of Tomorrow featuring giant Komodo Dragons. Whomever his set people are, give them all the awards because they bring their A-game when it comes to costume and set design. All that is lacking in substance is made up for with gorgeous imagery in a Zhang Yimou’s new and pointless film, The Great Wall.

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