Matt Damon has plenty of classic movies on his resume — Good Will Hunting, Saving Private Ryan, The Departed, The Martian, Oppenheimer — but Netflix subscribers are sampling one of his lesser known movies (to put it nicely) right now, as the 2016 action movie The Great Wall has been a fixture in the Netflix Top 10 for US subscribers in early May.
The Great Wall was directed by legendary Chinese director Yimou Zhang (Hero, House of the Flying Daggers) and in addition to Damon has a cast that includes Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, Tian Jing and Pilou Asbæk. Still, the movie was a flop when it was first released. The critics bashed it, with it receiving a "Rotten" score on 35% on Rotten Tomatoes; general viewers don't rate it much better, with only 42% giving it a positive review. At the box office, the movie made just $45.5 million in the US, though it did play well in China, earning $170 million there.
