Wild Wild West Movie
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It's a whole new west. July '99.
On July 2nd, it's a whole new west.
Jim West is a guns-a-blazing former Civil War hero. Artemus Gordon is an inventive U.S. Marshal who excels in disguise. When the United States is threatened by psychotic Confederate Arliss Loveless, President Ulysses Grant teams the duo up to bring him to justice. On a hazard-packed train journey from Washington to Utah, West and Gordon must combine their skills to best Loveless and his diabolical machines.
| Kenneth Branagh | Dr. Arliss Loveless |
| Will Smith | Capt. James West |
| Kevin Kline | U.S. Marshal Artemus Gordon |
| Salma Hayek | Rita Escobar |
| M. Emmet Walsh | Coleman |
| Ted Levine | General 'Bloodbath' McGrath |
| Frédérique Feder | Amazonia |
| Musetta Vander | Munitia |
| Sofia Eng | Miss Lippenrieder |
| Ling Bai | Miss East |
| Garcelle Beauvais | Belle |
| Mike H. McGaughy | Big reb |
| Jerry Wills | Other reb |
| Rodney A. Grant | Hudson |
| Buck Taylor | Cross-eyed reb |
| Barry Sonnenfeld |
4.00 out of 10 (29281 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Well, it wasn't the movie of the summer...
posted on 15 Aug 2009I have to say I was disappointed. Kevin Kline is one of the best actors working today. Kenneth Branagh does wonders with Shakespeare. Will Smith is a likable, usually funny actor. Salma Hayek - well she's hot and she succeeded in filling THAT role, especially since that was the ONLY reason she was in the movie! The rest of the cast was just so disappointing - more because the script was so weak. I mean, who could pull off the line "No more Mr. knife guy" and actually still have the audience cheering for them after that? Plus, there were so MANY problems with this movie! Not just the anachronistic arachnids (sorry, I couldn't help myself) - it's meant to be sci-fi, I can accept that. But the movie defied explination in some parts! I'm sorry, it's just too much to overlook all these things, despite a few cool shots and a couple - very few - funny lines. Don't waste your time on this - go see the Mummy for action or South park for comedy. You'll be doing yourself a favor!
A hip-ride through the wild west,but got delayed for a while
posted on 13 Aug 2009Wild Wild West had good special effects,and some good acting, and some funny moments but the problem I had with the movie was the plot,story, and the script. It seemed to give no touch in other films like Men In Black, that was a better film. It just seemed to fall, and some confusing storylines that seem to make you go through a maze. And thats how I feel about the film, I liked it but it almost could have reach the downpits for not the special effects,it saved the film, but overall it was a good film but highly could have been better,way,way better. *** B-
Terrible
posted on 01 Aug 2009The worst movie I have seen in some time. I Decided when I saw the trailer to this movie I would never watch it. Then it comes on TV one day. It was actually WORSE than what I thought it would.And now in retrospect of my decision along time ago I made a good call not to watch it then and to those of you have not seen it don't watch it now.You will thank me for saving you time that could be better spent picking your nose, butt, or insert lame, waste of time activity.There is so many things wrong that it completely overshadows what little (very little) there is right.
Mild, Wild West
posted on 10 Jul 2009Strange film....very strange. It's clever....but misguided. Fans of the original t.v. series will find very little familiar here, the title character, played by Will Smith, is the film's main problem. Street smart, hip, rapping dialogue doesn't fit in easily with an Old West backdrop, where in reality, someone would probably have shot him in the back. Having said that though, the film's climax, with the giant mechanical spider is one of the best f/x sequences yet committed to film in my opinion, very "War of the Worlds" in tone as it menaces and destroys a Western Town. All in all, if you can overlook Smith's streetwise 90s humor being a century out of place, the ending alone is worth your time.
Moron Director Alert!!
posted on 02 Jul 2009Lets take a cult classic and make as stupid idiotic movie as you could possibly make and cast it with actors COMPLETELY unsuited for the parts. Kevin Kline, Will Smith, and Kenneth Branaugh should all shoot their agents. Sure they probably picked up a nice paycheck for this crap but can you ever live down being associated with such a "Wanker" project? For a television series the Wild Wild West was well done for its time and had a lot of interesting plots and characters. What possessed the creators of this movie vomit to trash the Wild Wild West. Hopefully someone will come along and make a serious movie on the television series. Sad to see these SCUM come along and try to make a cheap buck on the creative efforts of others and destroying their original vision. I always wondered how Robert Conrad could go alone with this junk. Then I read that he didn't. He picked up the Razzie Awards as a protest.
Why?
posted on 14 Jun 2009This, my fellow movie goers, is an awful, awful movie except for the beautiful special effects. Now don't get me wrong, I like everyone on the cast, and even Sonnenfeld, but this movie was just bad. I expected much better acting from this very talented cast. Branagh's southern accent is even worse than James Van Der Beek's in Varsity Blues. Salma Hayek overdid everything and was just there for looks. Also Kevin Kline seemed to not want to even be in the movie.Even if you can get past the fact that there's an 80 ft. metal tarantula (beautiful 3D), Armani suits, a train from any cartoon, armani suits with quarter glasses, and all the repeating backgrounds (even after they walked 20 miles) the movie isn't that funny. There were 3 times that I was contemplating leaving, but then I saw an effect that made me stay.If you're looking for a fun, exciting, good movie, this is not it.Congratulations is deserved to Elmer Bernstein and ILM though. They did a fantastic job for such a poorly written and acted movie.
How the West Was Lost.
posted on 12 Jun 2009No other stinker in 1999 could compare to the witless and tasteless experience that was WILD WILD WEST, a big-budget bomb of epic proportions that is a total disgrace to the TV western of the same name. Will Smith is James West, a slick gunslinger who, along with his partner (Kline) must prevent a political assassination and save a town from destruction.
Unsatisfying visuals and second-rate special effects only add to the horrible acting and the film's unclear direction. It is so disappointing to see such good actors wasted in such a terrible mess.0 out of 5
The Horror!!!
posted on 21 May 2009When I decided to go see the movie, I was sure I wouldn't suffer too much, because I didn't set my hopes very high in the first place. I was wrong. The plot was downright insulting. Anyone with a vague understanding of history of technology, war, or anything else would notice how things that no one thought of until WWI were invented in 1869 by a bored genius (who, for some reason, seems very very stupid when he speaks). And, of course, the black military hero in the mid 1800s. I have nothing to add to that. I read a viewer's comment claiming that Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh did a good job, but were limited by, well, everything else. They did not do a good job. They were in the movie. I'm not even going to talk about the characters and acting, and more than enough has been said about the special effects. The movie is just plain bad! And, to top it all off, the rest of the audience was aged, in average, 11, and so every time the plot went anywhere close to romantic (and they almost never got any closer than those horrendously written word games), the entire audience yelled in disgust. They were also the ones responsible for the inch of Coke on the floor, to complete my movie-going experience.
Fun to watch but typical
posted on 19 May 2009Well, the movie is fun to watch. It has one or two funny parts, and maybe one or two cool action parts. However, it is predictable and typical. You have your hero who is too cool for words (Will Smith), his crazy sidekick who is there mainly for comic relief (Kevin Cline), and don't forget the Damsel in Distress (Mr. Kayek)! Unfortunatly, it is hard to make a good movie from a cheesy 60s TV-Show. Nice try anyhow. Though it, overall, isn't very good, it's still kind of fun to escape into the world of cowboys and endless solutions. However, as this review states over and over, it isn't a good movie.
Translates the series flavor to the silver(rado) screen
posted on 13 May 2009Will Smith continues as a sure-fire entertainer by tackling what is now a classic of TV lore. Yes, they do incorporate West's being black into the script (I had wondered if they would or if it would even be acknowledged) but it plays into the plot line using the bad guys being from the south. Kline again amuses and enhances a film partner. GCI work is astounding and fun- doesn't dominate. This felt like a good fun 2-hour episode only missing the halted manner of West on-film originator Robert Conrad and smarty-mouth Ross Martin. It's an intro- showing how the two got paired and ends leaving us waiting for more rollicking, sexy fun in the Wild, Wild West.
Wild Wild Mess, Wild Wild Waste, Wild Wild WHY??
posted on 13 May 2009Although the TV show this was based on was made before I was born, I managed to see reruns on TNT, and it's pretty good. Robert Conrad and Ross Martin played James West and technical/scientific genius Artemus Gordon. They were both excellent actors who had great rapport with each other. And the stories were fun and exciting.But Jesus, this movie, seems we can't dog this dog enough. The casting of the main characters is okay: Kevin Kline as Artemus Gordon, and I can slightly accept Will Smith as Jim West. Although a black guy doing the work he is doing, during the tail-end of slavery, is hardly believable, suspension of disbelief would have been easier without the friggin' asinine story and the infantile dialogue. For some strange reason, their characters were adversarial and foolish, and not those who are to guard a United States President. Every actor here was misused and Barry Sonnenfeld should have known better!Kenneth Branagh is a bad guy with a thick southern drawl and no legs, WHY? Kline and Smith in drag, WHY? A prolonged, double-entendre', sitcom-like conversation about fake boobs, WHY? A racist/cripple exchange between Branagh and Smith,*rather than a gentlemanly but tense chat!* WHY?? Salma Hayek's ass crack, WHY??? A giant mechanical spider, WHY?? The Fresh Prince in a Western, WHY????Seriously, if there ever was a modern day western to see, then watch the TV show, Shanghai Noon, or The Quick and The Dead. WWW may warrant a look for it's excellent special effects, notably a well-crafted chase scene involving flying buzzsaw discs (but topped considerably by a similar chase scene with Dash from "The Incredibles"). However, to sit through this entire film, you'd have to be a fly that likes horse crap.
Hudson Hawk, Part 2?
posted on 03 May 2009The TV show this was based on had a clever premise (U.S. agents in the ante-bellum U.S. with 19th c. versions of James Bond gadgets). There were some good episodes. There were also plenty of bad episodes and the movie is more like those.The best idea in the movie IS the amusing technology: Nearly all of the contraptions are steam-powered. But overall, the rest of the movie is silly & half-assed. In Hollywood's favorite trick, filming began before a decent script was completed.The opening scenes are dead on arrival. Characters haven't even been introduced before there's a fight, a horse-chase, and a variety of western set-pieces that were stale fifty years ago. You haven't warmed up to the movie at all before you find yourself repelled. (McGrath tilts his hearing horn and brown goo flows out of it) Scenes in the latter half look cheap because they opted to film exteriors as digitally inserted backgrounds. Perhaps that shaved a few bucks off the $200 mil this thing cost.It has insipid ideas that will leave you groaning: - Shining a light through the back of a cadavers head to project the final image on his corneas - Henchmen hidden within living paintings - Rubber rope - Will Smith and Kevin Kline in utterly unconvincing drag, that still manages to fool the imbeciles this movie is teeming with.Smith and Kline have zero chemistry together. Because Hollywood is uncomfortable with two men relating in any way but a rivalry, the writers made them reluctant bickering partners. (Wasn't that fresh the last six hundred times you saw it?)Smith is miscast. The producers wanted bankability, not credibility. Once he was chosen to play a black marshall in 1869, the script was forced to acknowledge the anachronism. For these writers it meant doing it over and over and over! Race is the tiresome focus of too many scenes.Smith is squeaky clean, and he's an uninvolved performer. He trades on attitude & likability, not competence in the role. It would take an edgier performer than Smith to send nasty material like this over. (race-bating, disabled-bashing, a lynching!??!) Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
PURE FUN!!
posted on 03 May 2009This is a fantastic film! In the same vein as Mars Attacks! The crew have said, "we have a big budget, high quality actors, and kick arse special effects to boot... Let's have FUN!!!" Kline and Smith are magical together, both complimenting each others comic styles. Plus some of the best one liners I've heard in ages. Don't expect Citizen Kane, just light hearted fun with brilliant characters.
Only a screenplay this bad ...
posted on 19 Apr 2009Only a screenplay this bad could spoil talent this good. When you combine the incredible acting ability of Kenneth Brannagh, the inestimatable humor skills of Kevin Kline, and the sheer charisma and style of Will Smith, not to mention the capably quirky directing of Barry Sonnenfeld, you would expect a very entertaining movie.Or at least not this drek.This movie, plain and simple, stunk to high heaven. Everybody tried so very hard, but to no avail. The script just was too muddled and clumsy.In particular, I'm remembering a scene in which Smith and Brannagh, as hero and villain, are exchanging rejoinders. The lines are meant to be witty, but they're not. They're meant to be cutting, but they're not. They're meant to be enjoyable ... and they almost are, due to the talent of the two actors. They're trying their best, you can tell, to take those stupid lines and make them convincing (in much the same way that Gene Hackman did with his part in "Superman IV"), but even these actors aren't up to the Herculean labor this entails.And poor Kevin Kline! He just seems to have a knack for finding films that waste his talent; worse, make him look like a bad actor. Anybody remember "In and Out", that homophobic movie that felt like a two hour "knock-knock" joke? The man is talented; we all know that. Look at "A Fish Called Wanda". "The January Man". "Sophie's Choice". His work in NY's Shakespeare in the Park. This is a good actor, and for such a great actor to look so bad ... oh, the humanity!Don't see this movie. Trust me. But also don't give up on the cast or director. They have talent, really. Buckets of it. You just can't tell in this movie.
A Cinematic Mess
posted on 17 Apr 2009An unfunny comedy makes the biggest cinematic mess and "Wild, Wild West" is an unfunny comedy of the highest order. It has A-list/big budget everything, and you can see it in the production values from actors to special effects. Too bad it didn't have a coherent script, let alone a vision. To spare readers time and space I'll just say that all the other reviewers that have mercilessly dumped on this movie have been spot on. Avoid, avoid.
Smith's Smug Attitude Too Much For Me
posted on 03 Apr 2009Here's a typical Will Smith movie which means lightweight action, him proclaiming he is Mr. Macho throughout the film, a dumb story.....but an entertaining film in a number of spots and fun to watch ONCE. That about sums up a lot of his films, one or two of which are a little better and a couple are far worse. Overall, this is pretty good....but there is only so much I can take of smug people (can you say, Chevy Chase?).You can thank the special effects team for bailing out Smth's arrogant butt and making this movie fun to watch here and there. There were some very entertaining gadgets in here, especially the robots. The movie makes little sense, has no credibility and is a just a vehicle for mindless entertainment, which is fine at times. There is a place for that, for those who need a break from too-serious films.This also is an excellent vehicle for the DVD format because the visuals are razor-sharp and colorful and the surround sound effective. This is a combination sci-fi/western/comedy rolled into one and is almost a cartoon in nature. The villain, played by Kenneth Branagh, is so ludicrous that he's almost comical. Kevin Kline, as Smith's partner, is a likable guy and Hayek is there for her usual purpose: show off her ample boobs.It's entertaining but I liked the old television show of this much better, the one featuring Robert Conrad and Ross Martin.
great looking production design is not all a movie needs
posted on 28 Mar 2009The high expectations for "Wild Wild West" will lead to somewhat of a letdown. After the successful special effects comedy "Men In Black"; star Will Smith and talented director Barry Sonnenfeld have delivered a great looking mess. Smith and Kevin Kline always deliver the goods; but I don't feel much chemistry there. Also, all women in "Wild Wild West" have been asked to do little more than look pretty; leaving the lovely Salma Hayek reduced to the role of eye candy. Only Kenneth Branagh, as the villain Loveless, really stands out. He's a joy to watch, playing oh-so over the top, working well out of his element and obviously having a bit of fun. (and is it ever not great to see ol' M.Emmet Walsh anytime possible?) Visually, there are lot of inventive things about "WWW", particularly those cool gadgets and it's villain's unusual disability. If only it's story had been so inventive...there really isn't much of a story. What we're left staring at is a wonderfully designed, but noisy, soulless, and cumbersome contraption (much like that incredible spider weapon).I was never all that familiar with the original TV series, so I don't know if this film's saturday matinee spirit was fitting-but I appreciated it. Don't get me wrong, "WWW" has it's positives--but it's not what we had hoped.
What a flop!
posted on 22 Mar 2009The movie had really bad reviews, but I didn't let that bother me, as I really liked Godzilla even though it also had bad reviews...The biggest problem with this movie is the lack of quality. The action scenes are done in a very boring way and the science fiction "toys" and "gadgets" are simply idiotic at some points.Even for an action adventure movie, the script is really bad and it uses really bad jokes that suppose to make us laugh only because they are coming from Will Smith's mouth. Sorry, he's not THAT funny.The movie is a waste of a nice premise, good actors and groovy 3D effects. I guess the stars of this flop are not too proud with the result too... Just a guess.
Inaccurate, Idiotic, Offensive
posted on 29 Aug 2009This film is not only a terrible movie, but anachronistic and offensive. Consider the main plot elements, Will Smith, a black man, is a high ranking government official immediately following the civil war, which was fought OVER SLAVERY. Not only is there no mention of race in this incredibly and overtly racist time, but Will Smith, again a black man is given the job of protecting the president. It just doesn't make any sense, and it's disrespectful to an audience to make them try to believe this story. I am disappointed in Kenneth Branagh, who made a masterful version of Hamlet, for even being near this movie when it was being filmed. This movie is characteristic of many different things that are wrong with Hollywood, including representations of race, lack of feasible, intelligent, or original plot lines, and overall bad writing, acting and directing. Do not waste your time on this one.