# The Great Wall (2016)

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**Runtime**: 103 min
**Genres**: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
**Directed by**: Zhang Yimou
**Written by**: Tony Gilroy, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz
**Starring**: Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Willem Dafoe, Andy Lau, Pedro Pascal, Zhang Hanyu

> *1700 years to build. 5500 miles long. What were they trying to keep out?*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You seek gunpowder in 15th-century China, selling European steel to the highest bidder. But a nocturnal siege reveals monsters no one imagined. Zhang Yimou’s biggest-budget film to date divides critics but shows his eye for color undimmed.

**Mood tags**: outsider, playful

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 5.9/10 (157801 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 35% · Metacritic 42/100

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