THE GREAT WALL – AFJ MOVIE REVIEW

Starring: Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe, Andy Lau, Pedro Pascal
Written by: Carlo Bernard (screenplay), Doug Miro (screenplay)
Directed by: Yimou Zhang
Run Time: 1h 43 minutes
Rated: PG-13

There was a moment when you first saw the trailer for The Great Wall that you were intrigued. Then you probably rolled your eyes back in your head the second you saw that Matt Damon was leading this fantasy film. If not, that is what happened in my case. The realm of possibilities that it could still be good hung around for me. Why not Matt Damon? The Great Wall has the possibility to change cinema. Not in the way James Cameron said Avatar was going to (did it, btw?). For The Great Wall has an American movie star, a Chinese director, and features a story wrapped in a foreign mythology. Obviously, Legendary Entertainment is trying to capitalize on an American movie star starring in a foreign film, for the largest audience in the world. So now we have to ask, did it work? 
Box office numbers and dollars aside, yes. Well, almost. 
Find out how Matt Damon and Yimou Zhang faired against The Movie Lord here on Action Figure Junkies.com.