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Wild Wild West (1999)

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Reviews Counted: 101 Fresh: 21  Rotten:80 Average Rating: 3.9/10
 
Consensus: Thin character development and worse the comedy isn't funny.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins

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 and small, are each sent to track down the diabolical genius Dr. Arliss Loveless (Kenneth... 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]

Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek, Ted Levine

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Screenwriter: S.S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman
Producer: Jon Peters, Barry Sonnenfeld
Composer: Elmer Bernstein

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 11, 2001

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
  • Single Side - Dual Layer

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - 1. Barry Sonnenfeld - Director
  • Behind the Scenes
  • Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
  • Music Video - 1. Will Smith
  • 2. Enrique Iglesias

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Stills/Photos

DVD-ROM Features:

  • Weblinks
  • Chat Links
  • DVD-ROM Game

Reviews

 
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2/5

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
Andrew Collins
Empire Magazine
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The most hollow of the recent Hollywood offerings.

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05/18/08
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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.

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01/26/06
Trevor Johnston
Time Out
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Gets by on sheer style, as well as the irrepressible likeability of its star Will Smith.

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03/03/02
Andrew O'Hehir
Sight and Sound
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1.5/4

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

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01/01/00
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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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.

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05/18/08
Andrea C. Basora
Newsweek
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Some very talented people stub their collective toes quite elaborately and expensively in Wild Wild West.

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05/18/08
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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Sonnenfeld's cheerful irreverence keeps it reasonable.

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05/18/08
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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1.5/4

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12/27/07
Joe Lozito
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1.5/4

...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.

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08/06/07
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette
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1/5

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

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07/23/07
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com
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0/4

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10/30/06
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
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B-

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

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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews
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3/10

Terribly lame humour don't help.

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

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08/07/04
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
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3/4

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

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07/02/04
Judith Egerton
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
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1/4

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

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05/14/03
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly
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4/5

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

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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online
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1/4

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01/29/03
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy
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0.5/5

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.

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12/08/02
Ron Wells
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