长城在北美上映口碑惨淡是真的吗？电影长城美国网友如何评论？

　　First of all, this movie does a lot of things right. The costume designs are great, the set designs are very convincing and the CGI is, although not cutting edge, up to modern standards in film-making. The music score could have been better but maybe the composer had a Chinese audience in mind.

　　The acting will not win any Oscars but we see some genuine moments of emotion and bonding and believe it or not but there are one or two scenes with a good suspense arc. Moreover, Jing Tian has a nice smile and looks really fine in uniform. That might be my own idiosyncratic standard but an attractive female lead certainly adds to the "positives".

　　With all that praise then, why does it fall short of being a truly great movie? As my summary indicates it is simply overloaded with too many plot devices. Its a hero/East meets West/monster/action/tale of betrayal and redemption/romance/fantasy movie loaded with Chinese symbolism capped by a rather weak, anticlimactic and hurried cookie-cutter ending. The audience never has enough time to get emotionally invested in the characters. The script tries but there simply isnt enough time to do it all and eventually the movie does too little to explore any of the plot elements and characters.

　　Nevertheless, it is not a bad movie and certainly not ambitious enough to deserve any of the vitriol people read into the story without ever watching the movie. I was entertained but not really awestruck.

　　首先，这部电影很多事情做对了。服装设计很棒，道具设计也有说服力，至于画面，虽不算顶尖，但也达到了电影制作的现代水平。音乐得分本可以更高的，可能作曲者潜意识里是要面对中国观众吧。

　　表演不会获奥斯卡奖项，但我们也看到了一些纯粹感情碰撞的桥段，无论信与不信，有那么一两个灵光闪现的时刻。此外，景甜笑起来很甜，穿起军装也很好看。可能是我比较奇怪的标准吧，但一个吸引人的女领导当然增加了些积极性。

　　褒扬完后，它作为一部真正伟大的电影又有哪些不足呢?正如我表明的，情节设置过于臃肿，此片涵括英雄/东西方碰撞/怪兽/动作/背叛故事/以及救赎/罗曼史/幻想，又以薄弱的、虎头蛇尾的、仓促的、千篇一律的结尾来致敬中国式的象征主义。观众根本没有足够时间将感情投入给角色。剧本做了努力，但还是不够时间，最后电影在角色和情节上的挖掘太少。

　　然而，电影还不算太坏，对于还没看过的刻薄观众来说不够有雄心。本片很有娱乐性，但也不足以令人肃然起敬。

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　　I dont remember the last time I felt a movie was too short. This movie kept me entertained all the way. The chemistry between Matt and Pedro is great. The Chinese actors were good, they werent supposed to speak perfect English. Their facial expressions were good and the directing is better than a lot of similar popcorn movies.The sound design rumbled the theater and in a fog fight scene, I felt like I was there with Matt and Pedro in the mist. SJWs complain about race, like they always do. They attack anything from China as the guardian always do, nothing new. They ask for "character development" because they want to sound smart.Since when did popcorn movies have a deep plot? You dont judge a pop song with classical standards. If you do, it means you dont know what you are talking about and you are trying to pass of as a pro. And why look at rotten tomatoes when the movie is not even out in the west? That proves they just want to troll. Good critics would never asks for historical accuracy in a popcorn fantasy. What they want is "Shindlers list" in Star wars costumes because they forget their age and Spielberg would never be so confused. This movie was made for a wide audience.Not just a specific group. Comic relief tells you to not take it so seriously. It was meant for pure visual and audio spectacle. As Zhangs Beijing Olympics opening. And Zhang did a great job with a script he didnt write. He and Ang Lee are two rare directors that can transition comfortably between east and west. All in all, I was entertained for almost two hours without boredom. In my theater no one got up to leave. They stayed for the ending soundtrack and credits. Everyone seems like they could use another half an hour of film. I have never seen this before.

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　　我已经不记得最后一部让我觉得短暂的电影了。这部电影让我一整天都热情高涨。马特和佩德罗关系的变化很棒。中国演员都很好，他们不必说完美的英语。他们的面部表情很到位，演绎的比很多同类爆米花电影都要好。影院音响轰鸣声和烟雾笼罩的场景让我感觉自己就和马特、佩德罗在那儿一样。SJWs像他们往常一样抱怨人种问题。他们像往常一样攻击所有关于中国的东西，一点不新鲜。他们要求“角色刻画”，因为他们想让自己听起来牛逼。什么时候爆米花电影有过很深刻的情节设计了?你不会按古典音乐的标准来要求一首流行歌曲吧。如果你是这样，意味着你根本不知道自己在说什么，你不专业。电影还没在西方上映你为什么要看烂番茄?只能证明你们是网痞。好的批评者从来不会给爆米花奇幻电影找历史纰漏。因为他们忘了自己的年纪，想要的是《星球大战》戏服里的《辛德勒名单》，斯皮尔伯格从来不会这么困惑。这部电影是为更广大的观众制作的，而非针对某一特殊群体。喜剧的穿插告诉你别这么严肃。它就是纯粹的视觉效果和音响奇观。就像北京奥运会一样，张艺谋将这个不是他写的剧本做的很好。他和李安都是能将东方西方老练转换的优秀导演。总而总之，我在这将近2小时里很享受，没有一点厌烦。在我的影厅里，片尾字幕出现之前都没有一个人离座。每个人看起来都可以再看半小时电影。这个我以前从没见过。