Filmed in Qingdao, a port city in China, "The Great Wall" couldn't use the actual Great Wall due to production constraints. Despite being a Hollywood production, the movie aimed to showcase Chinese culture and invention. With a budget of $150 million, the high-budget blockbuster immersed viewers in a fantastical ancient China setting, unique to the film.

The 2016 movie The Great Wall features a sprawling, fantastical version of China as its setting, and the movie has some interesting on-site filming locations. Despite talented stars like Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal, and Willem Dafoe leading The Great Wall cast, the action movie was an enormous critical and commercial flop. On a budget of $150 million, the film tanked at the box office with a worldwide total of $334.9 million. Critics also responded poorly to the movie, giving it an abysmal 35% score on Rotten Tomatoes and 5.9 on IMDb.

The Great Wall is streaming on Netflix as of May 2024.

Despite the movie's reception,...