Now, when I mentioned the plot is almost identical to Edge of Tomorrow, I mean it. Why did this Mulan-esque character choose a life of war instead of a life of royalty? How did she climb the ranks to become a general of her own battalion? See, all of this is an infinitely better story than one centered around Matt Damon. Commander Lin Mae (Tian Jing) is a warrior princess who continually sacrifices her life for the betterment of the Empire. The Chinese characters are the most engrossing. The fact that the foreigners aren’t fascinated by the idea of flight was a missed opportunity to explore something more thought provoking than the plot itself.Īlso, the costumes are impressive, especially those worn by the Chinese military. There is an interesting scene where the military flies to the emperor’s city in hot air balloons. I struggle to admit there are some cool aspects of the film here and there. Thank goodness he arrived because without help from the west, how would the Chinese army have rectified this situation?! He helps the military strategize ways to capture and kill the monsters. His master level archery skills and fearlessness are invaluable to the Chinese military, so they accept him into the fight. At first, Garin is there for the black gunpowder, but he eventually comes to see defending the Chinese kingdom as a higher calling. That could explain why he’s disgustingly altruistic. Out of the two foreigners, William Garin is the most distinguished. It is assumed they want gunpowder as the white folks of the West are desperate for it. Random white westerners William Garin (Matt Damon) and Tovar (Pedro Pascal) are captured by the Chinese military and brought to the other side of the wall as prisoners. The audience doesn’t know why these creatures are there, where they come from, or what they want, but there are hundreds of thousands of them, and they want whatever is on the other side of the wall. These creatures have sonographic abilities which they use to communicate with each other. The danger of The Great Wall are these monsters with a hive mentality. Shouldn’t a larger budget allow more time to work on perfecting the CGI? How many Adobe-editing programs did they use to get these monsters to look as fake and silly as they do? Zhang Yimou should stick to martial arts dramas because he is out of his element with The Great Wall. I’m not sure what I expected, but I certainly wasn’t expecting the Silk Road version of Edge of Tomorrow featuring giant Komodo Dragons. Whomever his set people are, give them all the awards because they bring their A-game when it comes to costume and set design. Tadhg O’Sullivan, in conversation with Michael Ryan, will present a selection of his works echoing the themes and approach seen in The Great Wall in Ireland on Sunday, August 23rd.All that is lacking in substance is made up for with gorgeous imagery in a Zhang Yimou’s new and pointless film, The Great Wall. Made under the Reel Art Scheme – an initiative of the Arts Council, Dublin International Film Festival, and Filmbase. One of the most interesting talents to emerge in Ireland in recent years, O’Sullivan’s directorial strength is underpinned by his fine editing and sound artistry – evident here and in his earlier work. The film was shot in 11 countries over a year, and journeys from a Spanish enclave in North Africa where the border with Europe is marked by a three-metre barbed fence, to London and Brussels, seats of power and exclusion. Mysterious and visually dazzling, the film journeys across a range of European landscapes, and encounters those whose lives are defined by these walls – detainees within European migrant camps. This bold new documentary, an adaptation of a Kafka story, looks at the enclosure of Europe by a complex system of walls and fences. This film was released on Friday 21st August 2015 and is no longer screening.
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