A Great Wall

Story: 6
Action: 4
Acting: 6
FX: 1
Durability: 5

Auntie Janice passed along this DVD to my family after hearing about our last trip to China. A Great Wall is an old movie from 1986 about a computer programmer (yeah they had those back then), Leo Fang who quits his job because they promoted a less experienced colleague based on race. With the time off, he decides to take his family to visit his sister in Beijing. With the two families living together for an extended period of time, there were a lot of comedic scenes and misunderstandings depicting the melding of the 2 cultures. What amplified the humor even more was watching the movie in this day and age because of the additional layer of how far we've gone in 22 years. Short shorts and funny 80's hair always make for a good laugh. I say that knowing that in 2028, we'll look back at 2008 and laugh.

It was a good family movie that we all related to, although the cultural differences were much more extreme in 1986. I felt the story was building up to something very interesting, but ended abruptly without a strong resolution. The acting was OK. The action consisted some well-shot ping pong matches. There were no special effects.