at the time when the construction began over 2000 years ago there were many city with borders, the new emperor of china connected the walls of the towns that stood on the border and created the great wall.
later another emperor built another part of the wall and later another one...
no one ever made some kind of a plan for the wall we know today, just built what they needed at the time and as time passed the walls connected.
This would explain why some parts seem bigger than others.
I walked on the great wall when I was a kid and it was freaking tiny compared to what you see on great race etc. It was also very much broken down if you walked a kilometer in any direction.
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It is set in a specific country, and a reasonably specific time.
So yeah, it is a 'semi-historical' movie. Is semi-historical even a thing? I doubt it. The fact they got a lot of the facts wrong doesn't make not historical. Have a look at what Christians thought the Jews, soldiers, architecture in middle age renderings, or what Jesus looked like today... they got it wrong, they embellished. It is still a historic rendering.
The film provides no marker that this is a complete fantasy, a parallel universe etc.
It's either historical or it isn't... This one isn't set today, it isn't set in the future, it isn't set in a completely fantasy universe. It is set in a recognisable past. So this one is historical, but it embellishes liberally, and takes lots of freedoms with historicity.
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Ahah, but Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter didn't reconfigure history along fantasy lines akin to the native Americans being vampires that Custer was in his right mind to kill in their sleep.
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