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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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best movie i've ever seen.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Finally a different Iraq war movie !! Kept me on interested all movie and liked the actings...Dont like my review? deal with it

In between 2014's brilliant Sci-Fi romp Edge of Tomorrow and last year's underrated thriller American Made, director Doug Liman took a detour to the more sombre space of movie-making and directed this character driven Iraq based thriller about two rival snipers trapped in a life or death battle in the harsh surrounds of the middle-eastern dust bowl.Forgoing his usual hand-held frenetic style of filmmaking, Liman has clearly tried to find his films thrills in other ways with The Wall but this small ensemble piece that largely focuses its time on Aaron Taylor-Johnson's wounded American solider Isaac as he enters into a battle of wits and sharp shooting with the never seen, only heard Iraq sniper "The Ghost" is in dire need of more pulse pounding action as we begin to realise that Johnson hiding behind a wall for an hour is only going to take us so far in the entertainment stakes.There's certainly nothing wrong with films forgoing the grand-scale to instead focus on the tension of a small-scale life or death event (Buried springs to mind, even the epic Das Boot) but Liman's film struggles to maintain its initial intriguing set-up as the bullets stop flying and the so-so nature of what Liman is trying to achieve starts taking full effect.Having The Ghost communicate and taunt Isaac as the two spar over a radio as Isaac's comrade Matthew's lay motionless before him (John Cena fans should look elsewhere to see their beloved ex-wrestler ply his acting chops) can only take the film so far and while Liman is trying to show the two sides of the war and those that fight in it there are better ways to tell both sides of the story.Unusually also for a Liman film, The Wall's action is second rate and with the tension deflated by long and arduous sections of Isaac looking at a trash heap or The Ghost quoting Edgar Allen Poe poems, even when things ramp up a notch it's not enough to make The Wall worth your time even with a committed Taylor-Johnson trying his best with a role that didn't exactly provide him with the best of material to work with.Final Say - What could've been a white-knuckle battle of wits and survival instincts instead ends up being a bit of a dust-filled bore. It's nice to see Liman try his hand at something a little different to his usual repertoire but The Wall is neither exciting enough or smart enough to recommend, while it's misguided ending makes the whole experience that much more frustrating upon reflection.2 bags of Skittles out of 5

This movie was one of those keenly focused stories that held you close for the duration of the film. It truly showed the horror and stupidity of war including the confusion on the battlefield during times of war. Snipers are the killers that dog soldiers on the ground fear most and this "death at a distance" story is both compelling and holds your attention to the end. The conclusion of the story is also very compelling and once again shows the futility of war. In this story, there are no winners; only losers

Reasonably good and suspense film and would have rated it better if not for the ridiculous ending that more or less ruined it. Before that it felt similar to Phone Booth in tone except with a military setting.Prior to the stupid ending however there are some plot holes that are quite annoying. The moment he saw and then retrieved the second radio I assumed his intention was to either use the antenna from it as a replacement on his or use his battery to power it if necessary. Instead he gives up on this idea entirely the moment he gets it and only seems to even bother trying it hours later... which immediately works and is very easy to do leaving the only conclusion as to why he didn't do it sooner being that he is either stupid or it is just a plot device. Either way it doesn't remotely explain why somehow his radio is blocked from transmitting and no one can hear him.Next issue is how long it takes for him to think about retrieving the rifle despite having paracord and plenty of long enough bits of wood around to reach it with. Also that he appears to think using the one bullet he has for it is the only solution when he could just fire his pistol or assault rifle into the air to alert the incoming helicopters. Hell, considering that throughout the film he is wearing an assault vest with 6 magazines on it, which is way more than a spotter would carry as it would be prohibitive to lying down prone for hours he pretty much could have just stuck the rifle through a crack in the wall and peppered the entire hill. Maybe if he had used that to put down suppressing fire on the hill rather than firing it into the air the sniper could have made the shot or got to cover without getting killed. Even though it likely would have been well out of the effective range of the weapon it would still make you want to keep your head down.None of the soldiers on the helicopters seem to exercise any basic logic or even bother listening to him anyway leading up to the ridiculous ending where the enemy sniper apparently downs two helicopters with his rifle... at which point you might as well just assume the guy is some kind of malevolent deity.