The Wall's reviews
Media reviews
JoBlo
And since it all takes place in one location with the majority of the focus on one actor, it?s a good thing they picked someone that could pull it off.
The Washington Post
Worrell?s screenplay, through the voice of Juba, interrogates the mechanisms through which terrorists are made and multiply, despite the best efforts of military strategists and attempts at nation building.
The Playlist
'The Wal' is a haunting, engrossing death march, one that?s not entirely original but also not easy to shake.
Entertainment Weekly
Even at a lean and mean 90 minutes, the film feels stretched out.
Variety
?The Wall? succeeds because of Worrell?s words, which cleverly circumvent obvious plot holes
Cine Premiere
High-impact scenes that recapture attention are isolated, as the well-established suspense of the beginning soon dissipates and is only recovered in isolated scenes, insufficient to make it an adrenaline film. Nor is it introspective, but wanders in the midst of these two poles and, like the protagonist, drifts in no man's land.
The Guardian
Maybe a more experienced writer would have developed and varied the relationship between Isaac and the unknown voice.
Time Out
?The Wall? isn?t a terrifically exciting thriller, but it?s thoughtful and fitfully suspenseful ?a lean, character-driven and quietly rewarding film.
Los Angeles Times
More interesting than you might imagine. But not interesting enough.
The Wrap
The film is so minimalist that by the end there?s not much left at all.
Screen Daily
An effective, albeit somewhat artificial, exercise in suspense, The Wall derives much of its propulsion from Aaron Taylor-Johnson?s grunting, grimacing performance as a wounded US soldier squaring off with an unseen Iraqi sniper.
New York Times
The result is less like a movie and more like a palate-cleansing exercise.
Indiewire
The film?s pedigree might help convince Hollywood that they can shrink things down without totally forfeiting their spectacle
The Hollywood Reporter
While one can admire the commitment, technique, concentration and stamina required to keep the pressure cooker at maximum temperature, it still feels like an exercise, one so dramatically monotonous and tonally high-pitched that you want to escape almost as much as the characters do.
Collider
El muro desmoronado no solo representa una escuela bombardeada, sino que también sirve como una metáfora de que la puesta a punto de esta película es tan esquelética que apenas puede ocultar una película detrás de ella.
Roger Ebert
The only satisfying thing about the movie for me was that it answered the question ?Can John Cena really act?? with a confident but not too showy ?Sure?.