Tom Russo gave the movie two stars in his review for The Boston Globe, saying that the film would soon be a distant memory for most. Most critics ignored the whitewashing controversy surrounding the film, instead judging it on its own mediocrity. While most of the film’s negative reviews are not outright pans - many critics gave the film two stars or an equivalent letter grade - The Great Wall still seems destined to be remembered as a film considerably less great than its title suggests.
Even if it somehow climbs above 40 percent - which is extremely unlikely, given the number of reviews already counted by RT - it will still rank as one of the worst-reviewed films of Damon’s career. Barring any last-minute changes, The Great Wall stands as the third-worst-reviewed major film of the Cambridge native’s career, slightly better-received than fellow under-40 club members The Monuments Men (30 percent) and All the Pretty Horses (32 percent), but slightly worse than The Brothers Grimm (38 percent). The Great Wall, Damon’s newest film, has become the fourth member of that group, with a freshness rating of 36 percent at the time of this article’s publication. Perhaps just as impressively, he’s been in very few bad movies: Of his 39 films with more than a cameo role and a national theatrical release, only three have received lower than a 40 percent freshness rating from critic aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. Matt Damon has starred in a number of excellent movies in a career spanning almost 30 years, winning numerous awards and landing a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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