The Great Wall - Movie Review 

Guitar Phan best comment ever.

Nice one.

+ Guitar Phan: Kudos sir...your comment is awesome!!!

Wall done

I think it's great

lol

KingTekins I hope so

KingTekins China made the world pay for it, 230 million earned so far.

Truthseeker Actually, 170 million of those dollars come from China.

well they pussy grabbed their queen if thats what ya mean ! :)

Zach Davis Your comment goes with your icon

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Praveen Sharma J

Extreme ways are back again, extreme places I didn't know...

Holy fuuuucking shit it's a dinosaur

Neon Demon Agree with you, he looks like a cowboy showing up in a Sci-Fi movie! or is that more down to Damon's wooden acting and bored expression? also it looks all show and no go with little to care about.

I'm Your Huckleberry yeah that's what I meant. Seems very forced.

Neon Demon Yeah same here.

i think whitewash is a serious thing. yes the movie can be misconstrued by the preview so people can dismiss it for being whitewashed but you CAN'T deny it when it's everywhere

What do you think of when a white character is change for a black one (ie: blackwashing)? Because is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more common than whitewashing.

The Amazing Geek Hilariously original.

The Amazing Geek I knew it was coming Lol...

The Amazing Geek I would think he'd be inspired by Chinese people who wanted to keep there culture and avoid outside influence.... Wait, are the Chinese racist now?

XD

You are not realdonaldtrump

True. It still needs to abide by its own established rules

Lance Grabow Very true. There is a minimum of logic that you cannot escape. Bungie jumping as an offensive tactic against millions of fast monster is ridiculous. Escorting prisoners using soldiers armed with long ass spears held upright is ridiculous. Keeping these prisoners on the wall right where the battle takes place is ridiculous when they claimed these prisoners were valuable (that's why they didn't execute them). And on and on and on. What a stupid movie. If I were 12 years old, I might have enjoyed it.

A director has to compromise both chinese and american audiences.Where is creativity!

I dunno, it looked like it would be entertaining in terms of spectacle at least. Sometimes you just want to watch one big action scene and not give a fuck.

Chap Mcbloke maybe

It was released at the end of the last year in China. $170 million were made in China alone. It's just that type of CGI blockbuster films that do extremely well in China, like Warcraft, FF, Transformers, etc.

In most of the world it went out in January so you are right :)

Chap Mcbloke the only masterpiece is your use of sarcasm sir.

Yay Me yeah it needs substance

Yay Me go watch the movie. the movie is not as bad as Chris is making it out to seem. It has already grossed well over 300million so it is not doing badly. Do not critique it unless you watched it

i wasted 2 hours of my life watching this movie.

Allan Alberts yeah I know but i meant in good movies

He's in Narcos. That's even better than a lot of movies.

YES

Markus Mets Wasn't he in Game of Thrones?

SyncKo He was Oberyn in Game of Thrones.

some parts he look like he was gonna cry....lol

FOREsight is a wonderful thing hey

The movie didn't suck one bit

And he made the iguana dragon monsters pay for it!

Donald J. Trump LMAO.

Donald J. Trump financially or literally?

he's not going make his wall, he be kicked out office before they even make it to 2 feet

kyotheman69 yeah and after he gets thrown out of office terrorists will flood the country and murder us all. So it doesn't really matter anyway right?

how old were your brothers tho

Dennis Caouki same as the Chinese people think.

Or if it were about vent shafts. #ventlivesmatter

Dennis Caouki -- It would be considered grate-washing if it's shading was anything less yellow than gouda.

CHRIS STUCKMANN PIN THIS. PIN THIS FUCKING NOW.

made my day with the grate wall comment. thank you kind sir

@Collidiscope 😀Hilarious but much needed after listening to this.

candiigurl7893 I couldn't agree more!

ブロンディブラック and I'm sure by "some people" you're referring to me, right? lol

only implies what you project it to imply fix your inferiority complex then go outside

People are way too obsessed with race.* There. Fixed it for ya.

It's the regressive way..lets battle racism by focusing completely on their race and not their character traits

We're Blocking iguanas, it's what we do.

That's MATT DAEEMOON the man who can climb anythaaaaang

Donald J. Trump no one cares

same score as the suicide squad that he felt disappointing.

Hamza Naeem We some kinda dead meme?

Well since white people HAVE had to save the world multiple times and it was WHITE MEN who invented almost everything in the last 200 years and fought most to end worldwide slavery, you're welcome. China was a slave holding, brutal dictatorship through most of its history!

I think you've misunderstood me. I never stated that Damon's character was evil, nor did I make egregious general claims stating that all white people are evil. I simply said that his character is portrayed as the saviour character of the movie, which he is. its a problem in Hollywood because all the movies we ever get contain characters, much like Damon's character going around the world saving non-white people. the root problem I am stating is that asian-north americans want to be represented in film as heroes, not just as people who need to be saved. It's simply asking for equal representation, not that white people shouldn't be heroes because they are in many circumstances. But when a film is portraying a battle that is occurring in China, it would nice to see the hero character as a chinese person as it does take place in china prior to the arrival of any european settlers or colonizers As for the other comment, I would encourage you to study the history of people groups that do not have white skin. I think you'll be surprised to know that many modern day inventions and civil rights movements (such as the abolishment of slavery) began with people of colour. For instance, one area where abolishing slavery derived from is the Bible, which in and of itself is a middle eastern text written by middle eastern and jewish men. In fact, the abolishment of slavery could be traced back to began over 2000 years ago to around the beginning of the spread of Christianity. Actually most major religions teach and promote the equality of all people groups, including slaves and people of colour. As for your last comment that China was a slave holding, brutal dictatorship through most of history... if you look at any country's history most countries had laws permitting slave holding and permitted the brutal dictatorship of slave owners towards their slaves. Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Australia, etc. Civil rights movements to abolish slavery didn't begin in one country, they occurred around the world in most countries. It just happens to have gotten the most amount of attention in the United States because news in the United States is highly publicized internationally. Keep in mind, North American countries are relatively young in comparison to our European, Asian, Australian and African counterparts. Many inventions that you are claiming have been made in the last 200 years by only white men I can almost guarantee were already by others around the world, of every ethnic background including white

The film's largest investor, the Wanda Group (owner of Legendary Pictures) has good relationships with the Chinese government and the Communist Party of China. In December 2016, users of film review website Douban rated The Great Wall 5.4 out of 10, which is considered very low. On Maoyan, another movie review aggregator, the 'professional score' is only 4.9 out of 10.[37][38] On December 28, the Communist Party's official media outlet People's Daily published an article on its website severely criticizing Douban and Maoyan for doing harm to the Chinese movie industry with their bad reviews.[39] On the same day, Maoyan took down its 'professional score' for The Great Wall.[37] Fuck you China

let's just face this : china wants to spread their culture and movie to global audience and bow themself down by making a white dude as a main character in one of their biggest budget movie. But they failed ... so yeah .....

rootedpotato dude, if the chinese army who has been training for 60 years think bungee jumping and piking monsters one at a time is a good idea......lol..thats a shitty army lol. Thats where the novie lost me and i was just face palming lol. I'm a cbc, too lol

Jailan Simon No more fucking hipster beards, please. Also beards are dirty and primitive.

Aitor García but thinking that men that have beards are hipsters or dirty sounds like a very "primitive" way of thinking

Aitor García roasted

Beards are amazing! END OF!

Till he looks like a bum?

Chris Lin But that's NOT ALL Chinese comedy, humor. They are just as multi faceted as other mediums in Other countries

+111926721435062402238 I'm not talking about comedy relief in a drama or action movie. I'm talking about the genre of comedy. Also he said "big action scenes". Their action films have those too.

All European films are foreign. To him. I guess he's American? Taxi taxi is funny, so is.. I forgot what it was called, the movie about a disabled guy in a wheelchair and his caretaker with banlieue(French ghetto) roots

@@gur262 les intouchables !

@@lilithdvs13 I don't know what you count as "Chinese" but Stephen Chow movies are similar, in both script and acting, to western comedy films.

+X03 you are not very progressive are you. I am a chinese progressive I feel there are too many yellows in our movies. We need more representation for the white minority in china.

The movie's cast is like 95% Asian...

hope this is a troll comment, if it is so, noice b8 m8

WizStorm Hey look, an alt right who thinks any white person who isn't a white supremacist= they hate themselves.

WizStorm Because white supremacy is kind of what you're implying when you think a white person who can enjoy a movie that doesn't have a white protagonist must hate themselves and their own race.

Yea some of his earlier films like 'Raise the Red Lantern' and 'To Live' are fantastic! But now he seems to have been branded as China's premier director and since Hero makes increasingly commercial films. I think 'The Great Wall' comes off as really cynical and it won't attract people who like 'foreign films' and at the same time will put off a lot of general cinema-goers because it's a Chinese film. So it's kind of the worst of both. I wish he would return to doing the kind of Chinese period pieces he was known for but those won't be the kind of blockbusters that are increasingly expected in China these days.

I keep telling people on RU-vid to watch his Chinese dramas. Many of them are very good.

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Ryungun Rie this is the only sane response to this review, thank you

+morpheusdreamer With how the Chinese film industry is working right now, I won't have much hope for that. The casting reeks of pandering, and there's not enough places where Zhang Yi Mou's directing can shine.

Phoenix Compton Welp. I got an ad for the Infinite Warfare bundle. ._.

FLINT FILMS it doesn't come out in the US until March

I'd love to hear Chris' review on the original Trainspotting and other films by Danny Boyle.

KaleLikesWaffles God thank you I was worried

FLINT FILMS In Germany its already out and it was really good Not as good as the first one but a cool sequel

MrSpockFA There's a limited release coming to the US as well. I think it's the same time as Logan.

I Agree 💯 a great movie 👍🏻

You're not funny.

KaleLikesWaffles this is Jackie Chan, he's got my back

Shiroblank Blankshiro I'd advise you to not get killed by him.

I swear I know this joke has been overplayed SO much But I giggle every time! XD

Exactly people tripping, this movie was great.

@@jumpstreet2425 I totally enjoyed the movie. I guess I'm not as bright like most of the people here. But I enjoyed it anyway.

Jump Street24 yo fr all i see is bad comments about this movie i actually fuck wit it 😂

KandiStomper same! But I'll watch it to make my own opinion

Jad X I think I will still watch it but, it'll be a download. I don't think i'll be paying theatre prices for this one.

the battle sequences are quite good and massive, characterization, that's the other story

I don't take reviews seriously, I am going to watch it tonight, I know for sure I'll love it .

Watched it , loved it. Amazing movie , I'll watch again

Aurzrm Nah ✋✋

Killua Zoldyck 20$????you broke as shit son

GohModley why you barfin son

Lol I'm saving it for the Beauty and the Beast remake (too young for logan 😭)

Who tf saves for movies

Kids with pocket money.

Daniel Goeken Possibly worse than this movie lol

Google traces your search, so no surprise here.

Steve Rogers Good point, Cap.

Cody Wagner somebody say my name?

Jacob Elonen 4 in the morning you mean?

Tay Boy when you live on youtube xD

Clara Mølgaard theres oredi a review for it

Clara Mølgaard What score would you give it?

Thanks, I just checked it out! MsTee I think I as right now would give it an A. I was so shocked, that it was over, that I actually said "No!" outloud in the cinema. I felt like there missed something. But I haven't really stopped thinking about it, as Chris also said. So maybe i'll see something, that I haven't figured out yet. What about you?

I just saw Moonlight couple of days ago myself and though it was great. Not quite in my top 5 of 2016, but certainly in my top 10. Very emotional, but in a subtle, restrained way...especially that last 20 minutes with the two guys having their reunion.

Clara Mølgaard I found it to be a good movie obviously but no where near to be a masterpiece in my opinion , I felt like a story like that was already made before , except this movie has a little different concept it still felt like a movie that was done before. But overall I would give it a B .

Kane Aquino I saw the last one on Pornhub the other day.

Valentin Rybin lol xvideos man

@@bunthansephierothkong5478 My man

No, people are only allowed to be outraged when it has to do with white people. Its stupid.

@@valorrepublic8059 okokokokok 😯😯

Markus Mets 75%

Markus Mets I'll say 37%. I wanna have faith in RU-vid for once, cause as funny as they are, I don't want them everywhere I go.

Markus Mets Make Matt Damon great Again .... oh the protesters when was Matt Damon ever great now let me get back to destroying Starbucks ...

Okay, 38%.

Markus Mets Not as many as I expected tbh

CyberLance26 because if your skin tone is slightly lighter, you can't be sympathised with.

Henry Ford It still feels weird that almost always with American movies the main characters must be American even if it takes place in other countries like the Grudge movies for example that takes place in Japan but got an American main character. And im probably one of the people that hates political correctnes and feminism the most in the entire world.

CyberLance26 in American movies it makes since that the main character would be American as it is an AMERICAN movie. And just so you know, Americans aren't just white lol. This movie is not an American movie, though. It's a Chinese film.

Cherry Fries I am aware that many of the people that worked on this movie are chinese but i still think its supposed to mostly count as a Hollywood movie and thats whats its being marketed as and the big reason why they made Matt Damon the main character instead of a Chinese guy is obviously to make the American audience happy. And even if Hollywood movies takes place in other countries its almost always a white or black American main character and sometimes maybe british people.

As successful as CTHD was, it's not a big franchise racking in money. Yimou said that they wanted The Great Wall to be a franchise like Star Wars, Transformers, Fast and Furious, etc. I don't know what they were thinking but you can't make a franchise with just fighting dragons as a concept.

Panos Tziastas that’s opinion. I for one never watched it because well... Asians.

Haha those cantonese actors struggling with mandarin tho

Completely stupid movie

Gabe Lee I thought it was going to be like Attack on Titan

At the beginning of the movie it says something like there are facts as to what happened and there are legends. This is one of those legends. So no, it's not exactly a true story lmao

ThatInsectDude 01 Loan*

We should have made a bigger wall

*Laugh track*

The Mongolians are going to pay for it

EndCreditReviews There's a difference between having a single white guy and having a country of people having the wrong skin color.

+Mrbluefire95 Gods of Egypt was about the gods, not the people. Aside from that the original population of North Africa was caucasian. The majority of people who live in that part of the world today are still caucasian, though mostly darker skinned compared to those in Europe. The ancient Libyans, neighbours of the Egyptians, were not just caucasian, they were white. Egyptian paintings from the time show them with fair skin and brown hair. Ancient Egyptians looked like modern Egyptians.

Heck yes, the movie was great and enjoyable

Illusion you understood me enough to comment

LulyTubee i agree with you...i don't understand all the people commented here on this video..I love the movie and I enjoyed it..I thought Commander Lin and Matt Damon would fall in love with eavh other hihi...such a good monster movie..a life-lesson too

Because he introduces us to the Chinese army, problems and their ways. We get to follow his progress getting to know the wall. It's a little bit like Harry Potter not being from the wizarding world because then you can learn and understand with him what's going on instead of just being thrown into it.

Honestly, I found him to be pretty high up there in white savior status. He rides in with the crucial element needed to stop the monsters, is an unstoppable bad ass, saves the lives of incompetent young foot solider several times, comes up with the idea to trap the monster and test the magnet, and is crucial to killing the queen in the final act of the movie. I'm not one to focus on race but hes not just a rank and file soldier that the review makes him out to be,

@@spencerr1983 he has the macguffin which his idea only comes from hearing what the Generals are saying. It shows a mixing of ideas. The premise of capturing it to test is a simple idea for a European who brings up catching whales. However the Chinese folk bring the rest of the plan together. Matt also was not that essential in the final act as General Lin made the final blow, and needed someone to use the macguffin to land the hit.

Cus if you’re white watching this movie you are Matt Damon

I watched it for Pedro, the film was bad but he was funny :D

it makes a great popcorn movie nice visuals, battle formations, soundtrack basically a great movie for a cinema night

id rather watch a clock than watch this movie again

abdullah hussian me too

abdullah hussian Meee toooo.

Thada Panichpakdee It Is?

Peter Vo At the beginning of the movie it says something like there are facts as to what happened and there are legends. This is one of those legends. So no, it's not exactly a true story lmao

i enjoyed it too, i learnt a long time ago to form my own opinion and not listen to critics.

Kane McAdam yes..the movie is so nice..i love it..no critics!

Watch a good movie please.

And you clearly have 0 movie culture if you get excited by this abortion. I bet Transformer's was your favourite 2016 movie.

Dennis Premoli sorry i haven't watch transformer hehehe...

fat midget Jesus wasn't white tho 🤔

Jesus was white...?

yes

fat midget He wasn't. He was middle eastern

Why the fuck not. Fuck it, let's make him blonde, with blue eyes and shit. Oh yeah, let's make his shit white too. I know he is imaginary, but at least try to be more realistic about your magic daddy and his half-god son.

jason gay there will never be another crouching tiger

Who knows, but Matt Damon is presented as the Great White Hope as he is used to make the movie more marketable in America. I think we all agree that is a fact. I like this channel and I like Matt Damon, but in this situation I'm right. Otherwise, they would've used Denzel. I am Really glad that Donnie Yen is breaking into American movies!!! Donnie Yen is the Man!!!

Oh MrKockNoker, I guess your either very ignorant or very racist. I guess you forgot that Egypt is part of Africa and was once of the most advanced civilizations ever. Fortunately, I believe that racists ideologies will soon be a thing of the past and we will all judge each other not by the color of their skin but the content of their character.

Seems you believe in "Alternative facts". I don't believe that any race is better than any other and I appreciate the contributions of every race, sex and religion that exists on this planet. Many of the ancient Egyptians had pitch black skin, everyone knows that as Jesus had skin like "Burned Brass". I respect all people and it's a pity that Trump is giving so many people the excuse to be more outwardly racist. We can only move forward together and if your not about that then you'll just be left behind. Back to my original statement, Matt Damon was obviously used as the great white hope in order to make the movie more marketable. That's just my opinion.

My God, harsh views but it's your right to have them. God bless America