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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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Garth Franklin

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 30 2006 03:19 AM

Dark Horizons

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Urban Cinefile Critics

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: | comment Comment | Jan., 01 2000 12:00 AM

Urban Cinefile

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Jim Lane

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 07 2008 03:17 AM

Sacramento News & Review

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2/5

Andrew Collins

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 18 2008 02:34 PM

Empire Magazine

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Andrea C. Basora

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: | comment Comment | May., 18 2008 02:32 PM

Newsweek

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Todd McCarthy

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 18 2008 02:31 PM

Variety

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The most hollow of the recent Hollywood offerings.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 18 2008 02:29 PM

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Sonnenfeld's cheerful irreverence keeps it reasonable.

Full Review Source: | comment 1 Comment | May., 18 2008 02:28 PM

Chicago Reader

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1.5/4

Joe Lozito

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 27 2007 03:15 AM

Big Picture Big Sound

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1.5/4

James Sanford

...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: | comment Comment | Aug., 06 2007 02:02 PM

Kalamazoo Gazette

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Rob Gonsalves

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: | comment Comment | Jul., 23 2007 08:28 PM

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Trevor Johnston

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: | comment Comment | Jan., 26 2006 03:15 AM

Time Out

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Robin Clifford

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 09 2005 03:26 AM

Reeling Reviews

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Dragan Antulov

Terribly lame humour don't help.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 13 2004 06:23 PM

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Peter Rainer

Smith's hip-hop aloofness and Kline's Master Thespian routines don't mesh.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 07 2004 08:59 AM

New York Magazine

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Judith Egerton

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 02 2004 08:26 AM

Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

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Jeanne Aufmuth

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: | comment Comment | May., 14 2003 05:05 PM

Palo Alto Weekly

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John R. McEwen

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 08 2003 08:08 AM

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Wesley Lovell

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Oscar Guy

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Ron Wells

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: | comment Comment | Dec., 08 2002 08:11 AM

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