A film where the concept came first and the script -- and everything else -- seems to have finished a poor second.
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05/18/08
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
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... [More]
Starring: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Reviews for Wild Wild West
Top CriticThe most hollow of the recent Hollywood offerings.
05/18/08
Top CriticThis 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.
01/26/06
Top CriticGets by on sheer style, as well as the irrepressible likeability of its star Will Smith.
03/03/02
How can studios pour millions of dollars and masses of talent into that a project that inspires such apathy?
01/01/00
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08/07/08
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.
05/18/08
Some very talented people stub their collective toes quite elaborately and expensively in Wild Wild West.
05/18/08
Top CriticSonnenfeld's cheerful irreverence keeps it reasonable.
05/18/08
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12/27/07
...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.
08/06/07
This is not so much a review as an inquiry into memory, as I attempt to recover the one tiny redeeming virtue.
07/23/07
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10/30/06
The film is lean, but not mean, and entertains, mostly, from beginning to end.
04/09/05
Terribly lame humour don't help.
08/13/04
Smith's hip-hop aloofness and Kline's Master Thespian routines don't mesh.
08/07/04
I recommend you suspend any whiff of disbelief and enjoy Sonnenfeld's hammy sci-fi Western, set in the late 1860s.
07/02/04
If every cloud has a silver lining, my lining is that my year-end worst list is one film closer to completion.
05/14/03
The sheer fun generated by the characterizations will provide enough entertainment value for the average moviegoer.
02/08/03
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01/29/03
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