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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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The latest in a tiresome stream of adaptations of old television shows.

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Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
rec.arts.movies.reviews

A stylish, witty, imaginative diversion.

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01/01/00
Brian Farnham
Brian Farnham
Citysearch

It's shallow, predictable and completely overblown, but it's also good-natured and reasonably fun.

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01/01/00
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

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.

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Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

A mountain of bad writing, a confusing plot, atrocious jokes and surprisingly bad special effects.

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Charlie McCollum
Charlie McCollum
San Jose Mercury News

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.

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Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

It isn't funny, and it isn't exciting.

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Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

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.

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Chuck Rudolph
Chuck Rudolph
Matinee Magazine

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Cornell & Petricelli
Cornell & Petricelli
CinemaSense.Com

Will Smith is a mighty star, so fabulously charismatic and adorably self-confident that he almost overcomes the blatantly dumb plotting of Barry Sonnenfeld's version of the old Robert Conrad TV series.

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Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
Philadelphia City Paper

It is an obnoxious, sexist, crude, disgusting, and dead-in-the-water series of lame actions and insipid character situations.

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01/01/00
David Keyes
David Keyes
Cinemaphile.org

No-surprises, entirely by-the-numbers plot.

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Doris Toumarkine
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International

Messy, mean-spirited!

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Duane Dudek
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Basically, what you see in the trailer is what you get, and nothing more.

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Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

Had the filmmakers spent a 10th as much time honing the script as they did on the nifty art direction, Wild Wild West could have been something more than gibberish with a colorful candy coating.

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Edward Johnson-Ott
Edward Johnson-Ott
NUVO Newsweekly

I wasn't prepared to see such inanity from Will Smith.

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Eugene Novikov
Eugene Novikov
Film Blather

The clanky screenplay is downright dopey.

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01/01/00
Gary Brown
Gary Brown
Houston Community Newspapers

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Greg Dean Schmitz
Greg Dean Schmitz
Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies

Moderately amusing.

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Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

How can studios pour millions of dollars and masses of talent into that a project that inspires such apathy?

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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
UK Critic
 
 
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