Imperial Court has assigned the job of protecting its realm to a military order called The Nameless Order. She is calling the shots for her race and yes, she is literally yowling for a boss fight. At the center of them is a queen, a gigantic monster who stays protected by her very own circle of trust er…monsters who do not let anyone get near her. Max Brooks, Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz created alien mythical monsters that visited every 60 years trying to overrun the planet with huge numbers. They responded pretty well to each other using signs and noises a normal guy couldn’t possibly register. The movie tried to aggrandize the then extant Song Dynasty scenes with epic armies that acted tough and in unison. In doing so, its writers made the wall something it couldn’t have possibly been even in a dream. Yes it shows the wall in a light that would leave children fantasizing for days.
It created a story out of a mere lore and tried to throw in some tangible veracity to it. The Great Wall movie tried to cash in on the myth surrounding China’s biggest miraculous defense. It ends up becoming a resounding dud shot when you can see through a plot that sounds very cliched, can feel the shallowness of its scenes and literally read the flick’s apparent contrivance. Unlike mythical horror movies that are built on sheer horror and tons of suspense, The Great Wall movie doesn’t bank on the fear factor rather chooses to go with the action platitude to the finish line. The Great Wall movie is one of those monster flicks that starts abruptly without offering you any perspective.