They don’t find gunpowder, but they do have a run in with an unknown monstrous, violent creature. Set at some indeterminate point in Chinese “history,” The Great Wall follows William (Matt Damon) and Tovar (Pedro Pascal), leaders of a band of multinational western mercenaries travelling to China in search of gunpowder. On the whole, it’s a relatively amiable bit of entertainment that’s probably about as good as the core B-movie premise will allow, but with that low of a bar it’s hard to justify anyone spending this much money to make the thing with an A-list international cast and one of the world’s greatest and most mythologized man made landmarks as a focal point.
The other half is a less than seamless special effects extravaganza that can’t keep any plot elements straight for more than ten minutes at a time. The Great Wall is the most expensive Chinese produced motion picture ever made, and at least half the time that budget shows.
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