Besides, it’s hard to get it on when these beasties are crawling up the Great Wall, mouths agape and ready to chow down. Despite a few hot looks, however, sexy time is not an option for these two. The Great Wall takes place during China’s Song dynasty and follows two European mercenaries William (Damon) and Tovar (Pedro Pascal) who accidentally stumble upon the Great Wall during their quest to obtain China’s fabled black powder (gunpowder). He seems to be developing a thing for Lin Mae (Jing Tian), a female leader of the so-called Nameless Order, which includes a way cool team of armed female aerialists. But count on William to stay and fight the good fight against the aliens. Tovar and a European turncoat (played by an understandably confused Willem Dafoe) plan an escape. The Tao Tei, as they’re called, look like a combo of dinosaur and orc according to legend, they pounce like giant cockroaches every 60 years to thin out the human population. You probably won’t notice because the stilted dialogue is drowned out by shrieking monster attacks. Which helpfully distracts from a plot, credited to three screenwriters, that doesn’t make a lick of sense.Ī lot of the actors, including Damon and Pascal, speak in a weirdly accented English that at times makes them sound dubbed. But as they push toward the digitized Great Wall to make a deal, they’re met by a spray of arrows indicating “not so fast, interlopers.” Zhang keeps everything moving in a swirl of color, light and dizzying action. Aided by his Spanish best-friend-forever Tovar (Pedro Pascal), Good Will is hunting for his fortune. The Great Wall (2016) movie review: Chinese director Zhang Yimou ’s monster epic starring American actor Matt Damon is evidence that the. The Great Wall movie with Matt Damon as an English mercenary in 12th-century China, a role originally intended for Henry Cavill. Damon plays William, a 12th-century European mercenary who’s been dragging his ass and a phony ponytail across the deserts of western China looking for the mysterious black powder that can turn citizens of the globe into gun freaks. Movie (2016): Maybe Countries Shouldn’t Work Together.
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