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The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

But what in the heck is this??? One of the worst movies that I've ever seen, and that's saying a lot! I really like Will Smith and Kevin Kline, but they must be absolutely embarrassed to have been involved with this! A really poor plot and extremely bad acting! Makes this movie one to avoid like the plague! The first 30 seconds is a great start, then down hill all the way after that! It just proves that when something ain't broken, DON'T FIX IT!!!!!!! RP

Continuing my plan to watch every Will Smith movie in order, I come to Wild Wild West (1999) Plot In A Paragraph: Jim West (Will Smith) and Artimus Gordon (Kevin Klein) the two best government men in the West, must save President Grant (Kevin Klein) from the clutches of a villain. Though I still don't understand why!! lol You know a movie is in trouble, when they do last minute reshoots (Rogue One being an obvious exception) According to screenwriters S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock, their original script was almost entirely rewritten, in an attempt to add more action and comedy to a script that was a mostly serious, dialog-driven mystery western. Entire additions, such as the villain, most of the jokes and action scenes, and the entire 3rd act involving the giant spider were new without their input. Wilson and Braddock tried to get their names taken off from the film after seeing the final product, and they have since refused to work with a major studio because of the experience.They even reshot the introduction to Jim West. Belle was originally cast with British actress Phina Oruche. Reportedly, the chemistry needed for the bathtub love scene wasn't there. The scene was recast and re-shot with Garcelle Beauvais. However, Oruche was not told, and found out she was no longer in the film at the premiere in Los Angeles. The characters of "Spike Guy" and "Knife Guy" were added to the movie and inserted into the climax after test audiences found the heroes fighting only Loveless' beauties to be very odd. Kevin Smith has said that the giant spider was producer Jon Peters' idea for the later- abandoned "Superman Lives" project with Nicolas Cage and Tim Burton.This is the first real mis step of Will Smiths move career, as movie is more than a bit of a mess, it's all over the place. After a really good performance in Enemy The State, Will Smith is back to just being Will Smith, which is disappointing!! Kevin Kline is a tad miscast, Kenneth Branagh is simply awful with a bad beard and even worse accent, and sadly Salam Hayek isn't given much to do except look busty in a corset!! Which she looks great doing by the way!! I'd say Her cleavage is the best thing in the movie.Barry Sonnenfeld, Kevin Kline, Salma Hayek and Will Smith all hate this film. Hayek in particular thought she was underused in the final version, while Kline considered himself too good of an actor for the finished product. Oh well, I'm sure they were all well paid...... And at least from Will Smith's perspective, he got a hit single out of it. Willd Wild West wasn't the outright flop I thought it was, as it grossed $113 million at the domestic box office to end 1999, the 17th highest grossing movie of the year.

The two best hired guns in the West must save President Grant from the clutches of a nineteenth-century inventor-villain. Wild Wild West is one of the many films i have seen in my life that got really bad reviews but i actually enjoyed. Now let me get this out of the way if you're one of those people that get offended by everything, you don't like Will Smith and you can't understand that this is a comedy then i have news for you you better skip this movie pretty quickly and not even bother reading my review. Personally i found the movie quite fun i totally understand what it tried to be and i laughed a couple of times, the duo of Kline and Smith is pretty good and both men did a pretty damn good job and they did not deserve a razzie nomination, Salma Hayek was also pretty good and she was funny a couple of times and of course Kenneth Branagh did a good job as well because this is where he belongs in comedic roles. The film has some pretty good effects as well for a 1999 film especially the giant Spider looked pretty realistic, the fight scenes between Smith and some pretty weird dudes like the one with the metallic body or the guy with the sword hands was pretty cool and i laughed plus where else are you going to see Will Smith dressed as a woman? Not anywhere else i'll tell ya that. Personally i really don't care about other people's opinions except of my own and like i said i found the movie to be entertaining and fun for what it was, also this controversy with some of the changes or the whole Robert Conrad fed with the film i think was kinda dumb if you ask me the series came out in 1960 and the movie in 1999 it's like when Adam West started b*tching about 1989's Batman and why they went all dark and moody instead of his retarded dances and one liners. Things change and that's the problem with audiences today people don't understand that time does fly and changes will happen no matter if we like it or not besides if people really wanna see a much worse reboot go and check out "Conan the Barbarian in 3D" or "Ghostbusters" those films completely forgot what they should be they basically f*cked the original films so much that it was impossible to be saved. I'm not against changes and i'm not against reboots, prequels, sequels and recasting a certain actor for a role i mean sometimes it's better look at War Machine's part in the Iron Man Trilogy for example right? But when you completely go against the original that is where you loose the audience, do a bunch of changes or tell a certain story different instead of having a film called Ghostbusters where instead of catching Ghosts you basically kill them or having Conan fight against Sandmen instead of some ancient god or a god-like snake dude. Anyways i think i got a bit out of line here but what i'm trying to say it's this Wild Wild West is a comedy it's not a 100% action movie and it was never made to be serious or take it seriously. I think if you understand what it was meant to be and what kind of audience it tries to get close with you might actually enjoy it a lot plus Warner Bros has made way worse films like Collateral Beauty a much more worse Will Smith film or Batman and Robin the 1997 dumpster fire film starring George Clooney as The Dark Knight and thank god that we never got to see Nicolas Cage as Superman in Superman Lives a film that was meant to happen somewhere around this films release but since Wild Wild West bombed they throwed the project in the trash although the giant spider one of the "villains" of that cancelled film does make an appearance in some sort of inspiration i guess.

I am too young to have watched the original WWW series but as its own entity, the movie was a fun, tongue-in-cheek comedy with funny banter and jabs with a decent CGI robot spider. It is one of those movies I always flip to when I see it in the Guide. Sometimes we just need to accept movies for what they are, not for what they are a spin off of, or what we think they should be. This was a simple comedy, despite the familiar title and characters. I'd like to see a WWW2 personally.Maybe I can get a petition going for another one in this series. I liken this to more of a Men In Black type of fun. I think many people try to relate it to the original and are disappointed.