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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

US Box Office: $0

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 [More]

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

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Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
10/30/06
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
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Wild Wild Worst, Worst Worst West, Vile Vile West -- I haven't decided which is my favourite alternate title but they all apply to this hulking, overblown piece of celluloid garbage.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
01/01/00
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Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
08/07/08
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

A film where the concept came first and the script -- and everything else -- seems to have finished a poor second.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
05/18/08
Andrew Collins
Andrew Collins
Empire Magazine
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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.

Full Review Source: Newsweek | comment Comment
05/18/08
Andrea C. Basora
Andrea C. Basora
Newsweek

Some very talented people stub their collective toes quite elaborately and expensively in Wild Wild West.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
05/18/08
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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The most hollow of the recent Hollywood offerings.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
05/18/08
Channel 4 Film

Sonnenfeld's cheerful irreverence keeps it reasonable.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment 1 Comment
05/18/08
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader

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Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
12/27/07
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

...has style to spare, a few laughs and some imaginative touches. Also like 'Avengers' it has stars who look like they'd rather be somewhere else, a lack of verve and a script that takes the long road to nowhere.

Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | comment Comment
08/06/07
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

This is not so much a review as an inquiry into memory, as I attempt to recover the one tiny redeeming virtue.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
07/23/07
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

This monument to the vacuous excesses of chequebook cinema highlights the desperation of those who throw money at the screen hoping it will buy them a blockbuster.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/26/06
Trevor Johnston
Trevor Johnston
Time Out

The film is lean, but not mean, and entertains, mostly, from beginning to end.

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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
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Terribly lame humour don't help.

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08/13/04
Dragan Antulov
Dragan Antulov
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Smith's hip-hop aloofness and Kline's Master Thespian routines don't mesh.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
08/07/04
Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine

I recommend you suspend any whiff of disbelief and enjoy Sonnenfeld's hammy sci-fi Western, set in the late 1860s.

Full Review Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) | comment Comment
07/02/04
Judith Egerton
Judith Egerton
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

If every cloud has a silver lining, my lining is that my year-end worst list is one film closer to completion.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
05/14/03
Jeanne Aufmuth
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly

The sheer fun generated by the characterizations will provide enough entertainment value for the average moviegoer.

Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | comment Comment
02/08/03
John R. McEwen
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online

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01/29/03
Wesley Lovell
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy

So we have a light comedy full of racial slurs and cripple jokes where the hero hunts down the mass-murderer who killed his parents.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/08/02
Ron Wells
Ron Wells
Film Threat
 
 
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