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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...
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 and small, are each sent to track down the diabolical genius Dr. Arliss Loveless (Kenneth Branagh). Loveless is plotting to assassinate the President of the United States with the aid of his monstrously huge walking weapon-transport vehicle called The Tarantula.
West and Gordon begin as competitors but soon pool their talents to become a wily team of operatives who trust each other…most of the time.
The beautiful and mysterious entertainer Rita Escobar (Salma Hayek) complicates matters for the duo as she insinuates herself into their plans to capture Loveless. And Loveless has his own deadly team of lovely distractions -- Miss East (Bai Ling), Amazonia (Frederique Van Der Wal), Munitia (Musetta Vander) and Miss Lippenreider (Sofia Eng) -- whose unique attributes each pose a threat to the lives of West and Gordon
Starring: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek
Starring: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek, Ted Levine, M. Emmet Walsh
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Screenwriter: S.S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman
Producer: Jon Peters, Barry Sonnenfeld
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
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Reviews for Wild Wild West
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.
A film where the concept came first and the script -- and everything else -- seems to have finished a poor second.
If you don't think Kevin Kline in drag is funny, wait 'til you see Will Smith in drag -- it's even less funny.
The latest in a tiresome stream of adaptations of old television shows.
It's shallow, predictable and completely overblown, but it's also good-natured and reasonably fun.
A thoroughly misconceived mishmash of pop attitude, nostalgia and James Bond-style gadgetry turns the fondly remembered Western TV series into a monumental misfire of a summer action movie.
A mountain of bad writing, a confusing plot, atrocious jokes and surprisingly bad special effects.
The future of the nation and the life of a president are at stake, but no one expresses fear because they're too busy being cool.
Although most of the jokes fall flat and the action isn't all that creative, what's missing most from the film is a sense of wonder and magic.
It is an obnoxious, sexist, crude, disgusting, and dead-in-the-water series of lame actions and insipid character situations.
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