For the first 10 minutes I found myself engaged, but I was bored out of my mind not long after. While the tension itself is very much present, it's the fact that a simple story like this should've been told as a short film, de to the fact that there is not even close to enough substance to fill a feature film. After this set-up concludes within the first 10-15 minutes, you spend the entire film behind the wall. Shane is taken out, leaving Isaac tramped behind a brick wall, which is the one thing keeping him from being shot being able to talk to the man doing the shootings, this film takes a very steep dive in terms of pacing. The Wall is a film that takes too simple of a premise, stretching it over the length of a feature film, making it become very boring, even within its first 20 minutes.Īs soon as this film opens, you're introduced to both Isaac and Shane, who are two men left in the battlefield after the end of the war back in 2007. One-location films can be incredible, but you need to have quite a bit of substance in order to hold onto your audience for those 90 minutes.
Sadly, his latest crack at the can in The Wall is just about the complete opposite of where he should've gone next. Smith was, to the missed opportunities in Jumper, to creating great work in The Bourne Identity or Edge of Tomorrow, I'm always cautiously optimistic about his next outing. When it comes to the quality of films that director Doug Liman has helmed, they really are across the board.