It's like an Artemus Gordon contrivance that won't quite work.
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Wild Wild West (1999)
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Reviews Counted:102
Fresh:21
Rotten:81
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: Thin character development and worse the comedy isn't funny.
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Special government agent James West (Will Smith), long on charm and wit, and special government agent Artemus Gordon (Kevin Kline), a master of disguises and a brilliant inventor of gadgets large... [More]
Starring: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Reviews for Wild Wild West
Wild Wild West has six screenwriters and between them they couldn't come up with one good idea or one decent line of dialogue.
11/22/02
fun, special effects, and action right up to the climax where "WWW" wanes into a "B+".
01/01/00
Terribly lame humour don't help.
08/13/04
An almost complete waste of time, talent, money, and giant mechanical spiders.
01/01/00
The movie's problem is that it's a cartoon, offering no emotional involvement with its characters and no dramatic imperative.
04/03/02
If every cloud has a silver lining, my lining is that my year-end worst list is one film closer to completion.
05/14/03
Sonnenfeld's sardonic voice appears to have been trapped in the web of the giant iron spider that rampages through the last part of the film.
05/18/08
Top CriticWhile its television counterpart will continue to live on in syndication, this version is headed for Boot Hill.
01/01/00
Top CriticI figured the screenwriters would rape the show for its best elements, then stoke it with paint-by-numbers action and effect sequences, and I was right.
01/01/00
The latest in a tiresome stream of adaptations of old television shows.
01/01/00
It was fun.
02/14/01
The clanky screenplay is downright dopey.
01/01/00
If you don't think Kevin Kline in drag is funny, wait 'til you see Will Smith in drag -- it's even less funny.
01/01/00
The film is lean, but not mean, and entertains, mostly, from beginning to end.
04/09/05
A film where the concept came first and the script -- and everything else -- seems to have finished a poor second.
05/18/08
This film is fun most of the time.
03/22/02
Top CriticLike a botched chemical equation, these seemingly perfect ingredients combine into a fizzle.
01/01/00
An elaborately overpriced, over-hyped, and overproduced shell of a movie that will make history only as one of the screen's more self-indulgent box-office bombs.
01/01/00
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