Critics Reviews of THE GREAT WALL
Rotten Tomatoes: 36% approval rating (52 out of 143 critics like it)
Critics Consensus: For a Yimou Zhang film featuring Matt Damon and Willem Dafoe battling ancient monsters, The Great Wall is neither as exciting nor as entertainingly bonkers as one might hope.
Entertainment Weekly - The Great Wall looks like it could be a really amazing video game. Alas, it's a movie, and kind of a brick.
C+
Newark Star-Ledger - There are lots of shots of creatures swarming up walls, like carnivorous cockroaches. There's not a lot of conflict or character.
2/4
Empire Magazine - There are plenty of fun CGI monster-skewering scenes, but a clunky plot, rigid script and equally stiff acting make this a crumbling disappointment, if not quite a disaster.
2/5
Richard Roeper - Director Yimou is an amazing visual stylist and he delivers a few wonderfully outrageous sequences, but what we're getting here is basically a pricey monster movie with uninteresting monsters, and [one-dimensional] human characters.
1.5/4
Rolling Stone - What a bummer that all Chinese master Zhang Yimou and Hollywood star Matt Damon come up with is a B-level creature feature with delusions of grandeur.
1.5/4