Wild Wild West

1999 "It's a whole new west."
4.9| 1h46m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 30 June 1999 Released
Producted By: Warner Bros. Pictures
Country: United States of America
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Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President U.S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up to thwart Loveless' plans.

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Director

Barry Sonnenfeld

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Warner Bros. Pictures

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Wild Wild West Audience Reviews

Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped
Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some
MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.
dragonluna-106-76621 I don't care what anyone says... I loved this movie. The end.
Mishael Ward I don't really understand why this is rated so poorly. The movie was rich in humor and balanced with clean action. Its not a movie like magnificent 7 because it wasn't meant to be. Its Will Smith with Kevin Kline... Its not going to be a crazy mind blowing type of movie. I loved how they slipped in the beautiful Salma Hayek in the movie kind of like a supporting character. I enjoyed it and I believe if you haven't seen it you should.
Antonia Tejeda Barros Come on! What are all these bad reviews over here about Wild Wild West? The movie is not Boyhood or Casablanca, but that you already knew before watching it. I personally find it much better than Men in Back (which sometimes I found a bit dark). My kids loved Wild Wild West and were very scared with Men in Black. Wild Wild West is funny and entertaining, and both Will Smith and Kevin Kline are superb in their roles. The jokes are funny and Will Smith looks super sexy. Kenneth Branagh is also great as a villain, although his accent continuously changes and that bothered me a bit. The worst was probably Salma Hayek: her role is completely superfluous and her acting is terrible. The music of the movie is great and the song performed by Will Smith is really cool. I probably would give it a 7, but because I got so angry at all these bad reviews, I give it a 10. It is very easy to criticize. The difficult thing is to create. Wild Wild West may not be a masterpiece but it is a fun and cool movie which will make you have a good time.
ironhorse_iv Yes, I know, a lot of people hate this wastefully-expensive, fluffy comic fantasy and buddy film, but for me, I kinda dig this film. I think the critics were a little harsh on this film. Surprising, it's not as bad, as people make it out to be. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and based on the 1965–1969 TV series of the same name by Michael Garrison, the movie tells the story of two government agents, gunslinger James West (Will Smith) & inventor Artemus Gordon (Kevin Kline) who must save President Grant from the clutches of ex-Confederate military engineer turn nineteenth-century super-villain, Dr. Arliss Loveless (Kenneth Branagh). Without spoiling the movie, too much, it's pretty clear, that this movie was made to capitalize on the same success, Sonnenfeld and Smith had with 1997's 'Men in Black'. Instead, of using Sci-fiction comedy, yet again, by making a sequel of that said movie, they choose to go with the hard route, with adapting a TV show, most people in the 1990s, barely heard of, or watch. Having never heard of the show nor the two made-for-TV movie sequels, 1979's 'The Wild Wild West Revisited' and 1980's 'More Wild Wild West', before seeing this film, I can tell you that it didn't take me, out of the movie; yet I can understand, those die-hard fans that did. It's clear, that the movie change a lot of things, when adapting the source material to the big screen. A good example is Dr. Loveless, who went from a dwarf named Miguelito to a man without legs named Arliss. It's clear, that the new character model was created out of the influences of 1964's 'Dr. Strangelove'. I kinda like this change, as it gave the character, a little more reason to be a mad scientist. After all, he's trying to get revenge on the survivors of the war that took away, his means to reproduce. It made him, a lot more memorable. I love the over-the-top acting from Kenneth Branagh, because of that. Another change from the source material is the omission of the hulking giant named Voltaire that use to accomplice him. Instead, we have a series of sexy 'Amazonian' vixens played by Victoria's Secret models and foreign actresses, like Frederique van der Wal, Sofia Eng, Bai Ling, and Musetta Vander. Talk about sex appeal. Also, as much as I love Salma Hayek and her beauty. I found her character to be, somewhat pointless and underused. Her character, Rita Escobar rarely adds anything to the main plot, besides eye candy and love-interest for both the heroes and the villain. Another big chance from the source material was Will Smith as James West. You rarely see black actors in westerns. Turning the original white character to a black character, help build the rivality between them, very well. It also makes somewhat sense within the means of the story as there were many ex-slaves turn cowboys, even if Smith is speaking with some modern slang and dialect. After all, Will Smith's appeal goes a long way toward making up for poor plotting and dialogue. Yet, it's not far enough. There is ton of embarrassing cringe-inducing badly low pace dialogue situations. For example, Smith's dialogue to a white lynch mob about why was he "drumming" on a white lady's boobs was a little too long. Then, there is the scene, where Smith is dancing in drag. It went on, forever. I never want to see that, ever again. Even, the ending was somewhat awkward. Still, unlike the others critics, I thought the on-screen chemistry between Smith's character with that of Kline's character was alright for the most part. Still, Kevin Kline is by far, the weaker of the two main leads. Most of his master of disguises jokes and Freudian slips, kinda does fall flat. Honestly, most of the humor does, regardless of the actor in the film. The movie underwent costly re-shoots in an attempt to inject some humor after it was found that test audiences weren't sure if it was supposed to be a comedy. The movie's humor is clunky. That's bad. However, I did like the large amount of gags, we got from the gadgetry from Gordon and Loveless. It's just funny that producer, Jon Peters insisted so hard, on getting a giant mechanical spider be included in a film. He really does love spiders, as he try to do the same, with the fail film adaptation of the comic book, 'The Sandman' & 'Superman Lives'. In many opinion, while the spider part, seem to come out of nowhere, it was visually well done. The effects, by far, is the most appealing part of the film. The action scenes were fun to watch. During the shooting of several sequences involving stunts and pyrotechnics with the metal spider, a planned building fire grew out of control and quickly overwhelmed the local fire crews that were standing by. Much of the town, they wanted to destroyed by the metal spider, was consumed by the fire. Still, they were able to pull off that sequence, with the rest of the budget, they were given. Another thing that critics might be, a little hard on, this film for, is the opening theme song by Elmer Bernstein. I found it, to be really adventurous and upbeat compare to the original by Richard Markowitz. The TV Show version sounds generic. Nothing really stood out with that song. Also, while, Will Smith's 'Wild Wild West' rap song was sub-par, it was a fun tune to listen to, back in the day. Overall: As entertainment, Wild Wild West is mildly fun to watch. It's not the best, but clearly not, the bad or the ugly. It's more a Mild Mild Mess.